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ScreenPy parses raw screenplays. The following table are the stats for a corpus of screenplays extracted from IMSDb (www.imsdb.com)

Screenplay genre: number of films, avg number of master headings (msegs), avg number of segments (segs), avg subset of segments which have shot heading (headings), avg subset of segments which are speaker (speakers), avg number of headings which have a shot type (has shot), avg number of headings which have subject (has subj), and avg number of headings which have a time of day (has tod).

GENRE	FILMS	msegs	segs	headings	speakers	has shot	has subj	has tod
Action	272	145.32	1240.44	621.07	538.46	26.28	207.86	89.86
Adventure	143	135.96	1201.85	574.01	546.62	19.32	181.02	80.64
Animation	24	83.42	1190.79	466.08	674.71	18.96	116.88	47.92
Biography	3	144.33	1352.67	543.00	756.00	8.33	57.67	123.00
Comedy	310	114.37	1370.38	581.92	720.32	20.25	174.33	78.83
Crime	193	135.07	1352.31	656.12	620.73	18.33	185.67	93.49
Drama	541	123.10	1328.10	591.28	666.60	20.36	161.21	85.77
Family	22	110.45	1385.86	740.59	561.36	36.95	208.23	59.64
Fantasy	90	120.06	1213.94	627.40	526.83	29.60	227.74	73.33
Film-Noir	4	49.50	1535.00	721.75	786.50	139.25	201.50	13.00
History	3	107.33	1302.00	594.00	600.67	1.67	175.33	95.00
Horror	134	124.38	1149.94	631.57	450.96	32.89	238.72	79.32
Music	5	110.40	1179.20	503.40	660.80	7.00	53.60	96.40
Musical	14	96.21	1388.93	712.64	606.29	27.00	208.43	71.57
Mystery	97	137.91	1294.98	608.71	621.03	14.27	168.92	90.93
Romance	177	116.37	1367.10	596.67	710.13	25.08	176.86	84.27
Sci-Fi	140	142.34	1161.19	606.56	471.83	23.66	202.91	79.14
Short	3	39.00	269.33	138.33	118.00	8.33	32.67	25.67
Sport	2	229.00	1380.00	881.00	499.00	3.00	647.00	71.00
Thriller	352	135.31	1265.74	626.78	574.90	25.98	216.25	86.01
War	25	105.76	1272.40	616.08	577.88	26.36	263.68	85.88
Western	10	145.70	1367.10	706.00	602.10	76.10	223.50	103.30
***	***	***	***	***	***	***	***	***
sum	2564	2651.29	27569.26	13344.96	12891.72	608.97	4329.98	1713.95
avg	116.55	120.51	1253.15	606.59	585.99	27.68	196.82	77.91

https://github.com/drwiner/ScreenPy/blob/master/screenplays__table_.pdf