Documentation about this idea is available here.

• Reading of the sample corpus. The script extracts the text grouping it in sentences.
• Using the MBSP tool, POS tags and lemmas of each word in the sentence were obtained.
• With a little list of unit of time and manner of motions verbs, the program identifies some multiword expressions.

The program (src/main.py module) identifies multiword expressions of time using the patterns 1 and 2 explained here.

python main.py

• time fly
• as seconds go by