nltk.DependencyGraph.__init__¶

DependencyGraph.__init__(tree_str=None, cell_extractor=None, zero_based=False, cell_separator=None, top_relation_label=u'ROOT')[source]¶

Dependency graph.

We place a dummy TOP node with the index 0, since the root node is often assigned 0 as its head. This also means that the indexing of the nodes corresponds directly to the Malt-TAB format, which starts at 1.

If zero-based is True, then Malt-TAB-like input with node numbers starting at 0 and the root node assigned -1 (as produced by, e.g., zpar).

Parameters:	cell_separator (str) – the cell separator. If not provided, cells

are split by whitespace.

Parameters:	top_relation_label (str) – the label by which the top relation is

identified, for examlple, ROOT, null or TOP.