Lambda the Ultimate

I was wondering what kind of query languages are out there for doing NLP. This NLP lecturer mentions using Part-of-speech tagging to create Regular expressions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LivXkL2DO_w&list=PLuBJa2RktQX-N0flCReMywxy1E-tsF0ZC#t=547
I think that would form a good foundation for a NLP query language.

In addition to being able to query bodies of text by part of speech, I would like some special functions for searching for synonyms and stemming. For example, "synonyms('fun') Noun" would match "enjoyable game" and "amusing clown", and "sharesStem('swimming')" would match "swimmer", "swims" and "swim". I would be interested in hearing more ideas for NLP query languages.