Determining tense of a sentence Python

Question

Following several other posts, [e.g. Detect English verb tenses using NLTK , Identifying verb tenses in python, Python NLTK figure out tense ] I wrote the following code to dete

Answer 1

You could use the Stanford Parser to get a dependency parse of the sentence. The root of the dependency parse will be the 'primary' verb that defines the sentence (I'm not too sure what the specific linguistic term is). You can then use the POS tag on this verb to find its tense, and use that.