Moby Part of Speech List in Modern English

This is a modern-English version of Moby Part of Speech List, originally written by Ward, Grady. It has been thoroughly updated, including changes to sentence structure, words, spelling, and grammar—to ensure clarity for contemporary readers, while preserving the original spirit and nuance. If you click on a paragraph, you will see the original text that we modified, and you can toggle between the two versions.

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Moby (tm) Part-of-Speech II Documentation Notes

This documentation, the software and/or database are:

This documentation, the software, and/or database are:

Public Domain material by grant from the author, January, 2001.

Public Domain material provided by the author, January 2001.

Moby (tm) Part-of-Speech II for MSDOS operating systems is compressed and distributed as a single zip file. After decompression the part-of-speech file included with this product is in ordinary ASCII format with CRLF (ASCII 13/10) delimiters.

Moby (tm) Part-of-Speech II for MSDOS operating systems is compressed and provided as a single zip file. After you unzip it, the part-of-speech file included with this product is in regular ASCII format with CRLF (ASCII 13/10) line endings.

MOBY Part-of-Speech II CONTENTS

Read Me First File (aaREADME.txt)
Part-of-Speech (mobypos.txt)

Quick Start 1) Insure you have at least 3Mb of free disk space to hold the contents of this zip file. 2) Create a directory to hold these files listed above. 3) Extract the contents of this zip file into the destination directory using any compatible zip file extraction utility. 4) Delete the original zip file from your disk to save space. (optional)

Quick Start 1) Make sure you have at least 3Mb of free disk space to store the contents of this zip file. 2) Create a folder to hold the files listed above. 3) Extract the contents of this zip file into the destination folder using any compatible zip file extraction tool. 4) Delete the original zip file from your disk to save space. (optional)

This second edition is a particularly thorough revision of the original Moby Part-of-Speech. Beyond the fifteen thousand new entries, many thousand more entries have been scrutinized for correctness and modernity. This is unquestionably the largest P-O-S list in the world. Note that the many included phrases means that parsing algorithms can now tokenize in units larger than a single word, increasing both speed *and* accuracy.

This second edition is a comprehensive update of the original Moby Part-of-Speech. In addition to the fifteen thousand new entries, thousands more have been checked for accuracy and relevance. This is definitely the largest P-O-S list in the world. Keep in mind that the numerous included phrases allow parsing algorithms to tokenize in larger units than just a single word, boosting both speed *and* accuracy.

Database Legend:

Database Key:

Each part-of-speech vocabulary entry consists of a word or phrase field followed by a field delimiter of the backslash (\) and the part-of-speech field that is coded using the following ASCII symbols (case is significant):

Each vocabulary entry for a part of speech includes a word or phrase field followed by a backslash (\) as the field delimiter and the part-of-speech field, which is coded using the following ASCII symbols (case matters):

Noun N

Noun

Plural p

Noun Phrase h

Verb (usu participle) V

Verb (usually participle) V

Verb (transitive) t

Verb (transitive)

Verb (intransitive) i

Adjective A

Adverb v

Adverb

Conjunction C

Preposition P

Interjection !

Interjection!

Pronoun r

Definite Article D

Definite Article

Indefinite Article I

Nominative o

Nominative you

This two-part vocabulary record is delimited from others with CRLF (ASCII 13/10). For example, engineer\Nt means that the word engineer has two main uses in English; the principal part-of-speech is as a noun "That engineer could write in microcode with one hand and in ADA with the other" and its secondary part-of-speech is as a transitive verb: "We sure engineered that software to death."

This two-part vocabulary record is separated from others with CRLF (ASCII 13/10). For example, engineer\Nt means that the word engineer has two main uses in English; the primary part of speech is a noun: "That engineer could write in microcode with one hand and in ADA with the other," and its secondary part of speech is a transitive verb: "We definitely engineered that software to death."

In many cases, the -ed, -ing, -ly, and -ic forms of words are not explicitly listed; the participle forms of verbs will be usually marked simply with the V sign rather than the more specific t or i symbols. Words such as "be," which often have more than one head entry in a dictionary, have one listing with all the parts-of-speech for all senses concatenated. Foreign words commonly used in English usually include their diacritical marks, for example, the acute accent e is denoted by ASCII 142.

In many cases, the -ed, -ing, -ly, and -ic forms of words aren't specifically listed; the participle forms of verbs are usually marked with just the V sign instead of the more specific t or i symbols. Words like "be," which often have multiple head entries in a dictionary, have one entry that combines all the parts of speech for all meanings. Foreign words that are commonly used in English typically include their diacritical marks; for example, the acute accent e is represented by ASCII 142.

Quick Start

Get Started

1) Create a destination directory to hold the file listed above.

1) Create a folder to store the file mentioned above.

2) On the PG Catalog page click on the selection "More Files". You will see a "files.zip" folder in the list. Move this zipped folder to your computer. On your computer open "files.zip", double click on its "files" subdirectory and copy the contents into the destination directory on your computer.

2) On the PG Catalog page, click on the option "More Files." You'll see a "files.zip" folder in the list. Move this zipped folder to your computer. On your computer, open "files.zip," double-click on its "files" subdirectory, and copy the contents into the destination directory on your computer.

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