Use SyntaxNet for chunking?
<p>In an app I'm developing I need to know whether a string of words is a noun phrase, verb phrase, etc. I understand that NP and VP are neither dependencies nor POS. I also understand that to do this I probably need some sort of chunking tool but I couldn't find any open source ones.</p>

<p>In the output of SyntaxNet for the sentence "She really likes cute black dog":</p>

<pre><code>likes VBZ ROOT
 +-- She PRP nsubj
 +-- really RB advmod
 +-- dog NN dobj
     +-- cute JJ amod
     +-- black JJ amor
</code></pre>

<p>I noticed that the NP "cute black dog" has been put in its own tree node:</p>

<pre><code> +-- dog NN dobj
     +-- cute JJ amod
     +-- black JJ amor
</code></pre>

<p>So I'm wondering if there is anyway I can use SyntaxNet as a chunker? </p>