evennia.utils.verb_conjugation.pronouns

English pronoun mapping between 1st/2nd person and 3rd person perspective (and vice-versa).

This file is released under the Evennia regular BSD License. (Griatch 2021) - revised by InspectorCaracal 2022

Pronouns are words you use instead of a proper name, such as ‘him’, ‘herself’, ‘theirs’ etc. These look different depending on who sees the outgoing string. This mapping maps between 1st/2nd case and the 3rd person case and back. In some cases, the mapping is not unique; it is assumed the system can differentiate between the options in some other way.

viewpoint/pronouns	Subject Pronoun	Object Pronoun	Possessive Adjective	Possessive Pronoun	Reflexive Pronoun
1st person	I	me	my	mine	myself
1st person plural	we	us	our	ours	ourselves
2nd person	you	you	your	yours	yourself
2nd person plural	you	you	your	yours	yourselves
3rd person male	he	him	his	his	himself
3rd person female	she	her	her	hers	herself
3rd person neutral	it	it	its	its	itself
3rd person plural	they	them	their	theirs	themselves

evennia.utils.verb_conjugation.pronouns.pronoun_to_viewpoints(pronoun, options=None, pronoun_type=None, gender=None, viewpoint=None)

Access function for determining the forms of a pronoun from different viewpoints.

Parameters

• pronoun (str) – A valid English pronoun, such as ‘you’, ‘his’, ‘themselves’ etc.

• options (str or list, optional) – A list or space-separated string of options to help the engine when there is no unique mapping to use. This could for example be “2nd female” (alias ‘f’) or “possessive adjective” (alias ‘pa’ or ‘a’).

• pronoun_type (str, optional) –

  An explicit object pronoun to separate cases where there is no unique mapping. Pronoun types defined in options take precedence. Values are

  • subject pronoun/subject/sp (I, you, he, they)

  • object pronoun/object//op (me, you, him, them)

  • possessive adjective/adjective/pa (my, your, his, their)

  • possessive pronoun/pronoun/pp (mine, yours, his, theirs)

• gender (str, optional) –

  Specific gender to use (plural counts a gender for this purpose). A gender specified in options takes precedence. Values and aliases are:

  • male/m

  • female/f

  • neutral/n

  • plural/p

• viewpoint (str, optional) –

  A specified viewpoint of the one talking, to use when there is no unique mapping. A viewpoint given in options take precedence. Values and aliases are:

  • 1st person/1st/1

  • 2nd person/2nd/2

  • 3rd person/3rd/3

Returns

tuple – A tuple (1st/2nd_person_pronoun, 3rd_person_pronoun) to show to the one sending the string and others respectively. If pronoun is invalid, the word is returned verbatim.

Note

The capitalization of the original word will be retained.