Morpheus Perseids

Morpheus is a morphological parsing tool originally written as part of the Perseus Project. It takes Ancient Greek or Latin text as input and performs a morphological analysis.

Morpheus Perseids is a fork of the Alpheios Project version of Morpheus which is used by the morph.perseids.org API.

Building

Docker

From Docker Hub

docker pull perseidsproject/morpheus-perseids

docker run -it perseidsproject/morpheus-perseids /bin/bash

(See project on Docker Hub.)

Building container

docker build -t morpheus-perseids .

docker run -it morpheus-perseids /bin/bash

macOS

Requirements:

• Xcode command line tools

cd src/
make clean
CFLAGS='-std=gnu89 -Wno-return-type -Wno-implicit-function-declaration' make LOADLIBES='-ll'
make install

(Tested on Apple M1, macOS Ventura 13.1, Apple clang version 14.0.0.)

Linux

Requirements:

• make
• gcc
• flex

cd src/
make clean
CFLAGS='-std=gnu89 -fcommon' make
make install

(Tested on Ubuntu 22.04.)

Usage

Example usage:

$ MORPHLIB=stemlib bin/morpheus 'a)/nqrwpos'
<words>
<word>
<form xml:lang="grc-x-beta">a)/nqrwpos</form>
<entry>
<dict>
<hdwd xml:lang="grc-x-beta">a)/nqrwpos</hdwd>
<pofs order="3">noun</pofs>
<decl>2nd</decl>
<gend>masculine</gend>
</dict>
<infl>
<term xml:lang="grc-x-beta"><stem>a)nqrwp</stem><suff>os</suff></term>
<pofs order="3">noun</pofs>
<decl>2nd</decl>
<case order="7">nominative</case>
<gend>masculine</gend>
<num>singular</num>
<stemtype>os_ou</stemtype>
</infl>
</entry>
</word>
</words>

$ MORPHLIB=stemlib bin/morpheus -L 'cactus'
<words>
<word>
<form xml:lang="lat">cactus</form>
<entry>
<dict>
<hdwd xml:lang="lat">cactus</hdwd>
<pofs order="3">noun</pofs>
<decl>2nd</decl>
<gend>masculine</gend>
</dict>
<infl>
<term xml:lang="lat"><stem>cact</stem><suff>us</suff></term>
<pofs order="3">noun</pofs>
<decl>2nd</decl>
<case order="7">nominative</case>
<gend>masculine</gend>
<num>singular</num>
<stemtype>us_i</stemtype>
</infl>
</entry>
</word>
</words>

Command line options

Option	Description
-L	Set language to Latin
-i	Show more detailed output
-V	Analyze verbs only.
-S	Turn off Strict case. For Greek, this allows words with an initial capital to be recognized. For languages in the Roman alphabet, allows words with initial capital or in all capitals.

Tests

Requirements:

• ruby (~3.0)

./test/test.rb