Derive not working?

[robertmiles3]

Hello there. I love this project and have been trying to get it working locally to do some research. However, I have hit an issue. For example, if I run the following python:

#!/usr/bin/python
import ElixirFM as elixir

print("\nlookup (unpretty):")
lookup = elixir.lookup("أُخْرَوِيّ")
print(elixir.unpretty(lookup, "lookup"))
print("\ncode:")
code = elixir.unpretty(lookup, "lookup")[0][0][1][1][0]
print(code)
print("\nderive:")
derive = elixir.derive(code)
print(derive)

it produces this:

The derive function just spits back out the "(121,11)" code instead of actually deriving it. However, the web version of ElixirFM seems to work fine (link). Why would the derive work on the web version but not this Python version? But, if I run it with another word...

#!/usr/bin/python
import ElixirFM as elixir

print("\nlookup (unpretty):")
lookup = elixir.lookup("استسلم")
print(elixir.unpretty(lookup, "lookup"))
print("\ncode:")
code = elixir.unpretty(lookup, "lookup")[0][0][1][1][0]
print(code)
print("\nderive:")
derive = elixir.derive(code)
print(derive)

it seems to work just fine:

Am I missing something? The first scenario only works on the web.

[otakar-smrz]

Hi, Robert! I apologize for having left this without a response for so long. The derive function works only within verbs, masdars, and participles.
The first example only looks up the word index (121,11) in the lexicon and shows the entry. Compare this with the derived forms for (8192,31), which are actually listed below the given lexical entry.
Other kinds of derivation are not done automatically, as they depend on the real usage. However, you can observe the etymology in the morphophonemic templates, such as going from <'A_har> ~ HACaL to <'u_hrY> ~ FuCLY to <'u_hrawIy> ~ FuCLY |< Iy to <'u_hrawIyaT> ~ FuCLY |< Iy |< aT:

Hope this still helps :)