August 2013

This page is a browsing tool for an XML database created from the data in « Les verbes français » (LVF) by Jean Dubois and Françoise Dubois-Charlier (1997), using version LVF+1, which counts more than 25,610 French verb entries.

• More information on Les verbes français [Modyco]
• A brief presentation of the content of LVF [PDF 208K]
• A more thorough presentation of the underlying principles of the LVF [PDF 292K]

The XML file was produced through an XSLT transformation style sheet applied to the Excel version of the data, provided by Denis Le Pesant from Modyco (Le laboratoire Modèles, Dynamiques, Corpus, UMR 7114 du CNRS/Université de Paris 10). This study is in the line with the work of the FondamenTAL research group.

This XSLT transformation was originally written by Patrick Paul, under the supervision of Guy Lapalme, in August and September of 2008 at the RALI laboratory, at the Université de Montréal. This presentation (in French) outlines the methods used.

This document explains the organization of this site and compares the data from the LVF with that of other sites offering similar resources. More details are available in this article published in Langages in December of 2010.

The following sections allow access to dynamically generated HTML pages, from te data contained in the XML files.

By class

This section reproduces the structures in pages 24 to 463 of the PDF book available upon request to Denis Le Pesant or by visiting the site of the project FondamentTAL with a few corrections.

Generic and Semantico-syntactical classes

In alphabetical order

There is one page for each letter of the alphabet, grouping verbs according to their first letter. On each page, there is a table of verbs, similar to the way they are displayed in the book. The content and the organization of pages 464-549 of the book are reproduced.

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

By domain

One page by domain (in French).

By scheme

One page by scheme (in French). Schemes can be accessed from the scheme index.

Entry lookup by regular expression (pattern)

Multi-criteria entry lookup

Lookup form exposing all fields

The data in digital format

• XML data in a single file Zipped file [2.2 Mb] (35.8 Mb when unzipped!).
• Short excerpt of the XML data (45Kb): 37 entries corresponding to 6 distinct verbs starting with aba, i.e. abaisser (9), abalourdir, abandonner (13), abasourdir (2), abattre (11), abat-carrer.
  This excerpt, which gives an idea of the format used, can easily be loaded into any text editor. Warning: it may prove necessary to view the "source" of the page if your web browswer insists on rendering the file as an HTML page.
• The RelaxNG schema, compact form for validating the XML file.
• XML data, with one file per verb, regrouping all its entries.
  • A directory for each letter of the alphabet.
  • Zipped version of these directories.
• Directory of XML files, listing the mapping between codes and class names, derivatives, domains, operators and schemes. Compressed version of this directory.
• XSLT stylesheet used for the conversion. This sheet assumes the presence of the CSV version of the original Excel file, available from Modyco.
• XSLT stylesheet used to slice the global XML file into directories, where each directory contains a single verb.

In accordance with the author's and Modyco's wishes, this data is made available on the condition that the downloader agrees to the terms of the LGPL-LR license.

A version compatible with Mac OS X's Dictionary application

To integrate this dictionary of French verbs to the Dictionary application under Mac OS X, please follow these instructions.

• Download the compressed dictionary;
• Decompress the zip file by double-clicking on it, if your OS hasn't already decompressed the file;
• Move the file LVF.dictionary into the directory ~/Library/Dictionaries (create it if absent);
• Launch the application Dictionary and activate the LVF dictionary in the Preferences;
• It is possible to select which LVF fields to display, in the Preferences.

Versions

Other sites using the LVF

• FondamenTAL Group
• Paul Bédaride's wiki at the University of Stuttgart.

Contact : Dr. Guy Lapalme