Construct a sentence generator. Write down a bunch of sentences. Now pick them apart into lists of nouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives and so forth. Use these pieces and create new sentences more or less at random. Some of those will be silly, some utter nonsense, but some could be the start of poetry or a novel.
Just to get you started, here is a very simple sentence generator, that takes the three parts (subject, action, object) of a standard sentence, shuffles these parts and reassembles the sentence ...
# goofy sentence generator
import random
def make_sentence(part1, part2, part3, n=1):
"""return n random sentences"""
# convert to lists
p1 = part1.split('\n')
p2 = part2.split('\n')
p3 = part3.split('\n')
# shuffle the lists
random.shuffle(p1)
random.shuffle(p2)
random.shuffle(p3)
# concatinate the sentences
sentence = []
for k in range(n):
try:
s = p1[k] + ' ' + p2[k] + ' ' + p3[k]
s = s.capitalize() + '.'
sentence.append(s)
except IndexError:
break
return sentence
# break a typical sentence into 3 parts
# first part of a sentence (subject)
part1 = """\
a drunken sailor
a giggling goose
the yearning youth
the obese ostrich
this mean mouse
the skinny sister"""
# middle part of a sentence (action)
part2 = """\
jumps over
flies over
runs across
openly ogles
twice tastes
vomits on"""
# ending part of a sentence (object)
part3 = """\
a rusty fence
the laughing cow
the weedcovered backyard
the timid trucker
the rancid old cheese
the jolly jelly"""
print '-'*60
sentence = make_sentence(part1, part2, part3, 3)
for item in sentence:
print item
print '-'*60
"""
a typical result -->
A drunken sailor flies over the laughing cow.
The obese ostrich runs across the weedcovered backyard.
This mean mouse openly ogles the jolly jelly.
"""
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Last edited by vegaseat; Mar 1st, 2007 at 4:17 pm. Reason: missing lines
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