synsets.py

import sys
import pprint
import json
from nltk.corpus import wordnet as wn

def get_synsets(words):
    return dict([[w,wn.synsets(w.split()[0])] for w in words])



def showit(word):

    res = get_synsets([word])

    dd = {}
    for k,v in res.items():
        dd[k] = {}
        for thing in v:
            dd[k][str(thing.name())] = map(str,thing.lemma_names())

    return dd


if __name__ == '__main__':

    res = []
    for word in sys.argv[1:]:
        res.append(showit(word))

    print json.dumps(res)