My Verbs

RadiantSkies. NaturalLanguageProcessing. 

Tip for Readers: Counting verbs is hard. Four minutes of coding can do this entire assignment for you.

I wasn't sure if computational linguistics would ever be relevant in my academic career. Thankfully, my wonderful English instructor wanted me to make a list of all of my verbs, then tally them. I'm usually terrified of computers, but right now I'm thanking God for the Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK.)

Besides variations of "be," which were most often used as auxiliary verbs, the verbs used in my QRG were very low frequency. The vast majority were used only once.


Verb List: 
['mean', 'start', 'kill', 'give', 'accuse', 'criticize', 'be', 'attack', 'respond', 'circulate', 'sign', 'criticize', 'impose', 'are', 'is', 'accuse', 'being', 'want', 'support', 'are', 'fight', 'has', 'hijack', 'force', 'fund', 'smuggle', 'want', 'does', 'halt', 'could', 'respond', 'weaken', 'was', 'attack', 'receive', 'was', 'tend', 'decry', 'attack', 'want', 'call', 'cause', 'demand', 'abandon', 'commit', 'held', 'sign', 'sign', 'calling', 'claim', 'defend', 'accuse', 'is', 'respond', 'was', 'bomb', 'claim', 'criticize', 'take', 'describe', 'call', 'deny', 'claim', 'built', 'is', 'is', 'were', 'place', 'fire', 'detain', 'gone', 'were', 'detain', 'spread', 'criticize', 'fear', 'respond', 'urge', 'honor', 'have', 'reside', 'is', 'face', 'escalate', 'promise', 'liquidate', 'has', 'face', 'purchase', 'allow', 'attack', 'is', 'has', 'crack', 'attack', 'attack', 'harm', 'have', 'criticize', 'work', 'support', 'declare', 'choose', 'rely', 'provide', 'use', 'attack', 'consider', 'is', 'condemn', 'worry', 'provide', 'encourage', 'know', 'let', 'ignore']

Verb Frequency

14: ['be']
7: ['attack']
5: ['criticize']
4: ['respond']
3: ['accuse', 'sign', 'want', 'has', 'call', 'claim']
2: ['support', 'detain', 'face']
1: ['mean', 'start',  'kill', 'give', 'circulate', 'impose', 'fight', 'hijack', 'force', 'fund', 'smuggle', 'do', 'halt', 'could', 'weaken', 'receive', 'tend', 'decry', 'cause', 'demand', 'abandon', 'commit', 'hold', 'deny', 'defend', 'bomb', 'take', 'describe', 'build', 'honor', 'fire', 'place', 'go', 'spread', 'fear', 'urge', 'reside', 'escalate', 'promise', 'liquidate', 'purchase', 'allow', 'crack', 'harm', 'work', 'declare', 'choose', 'rely', 'provide', 'use', 'consider', 'condemn', 'worry', 'encourage', 'know', 'let', 'ignore']