The last update to conceptnet5/db/query.py (b744e34) changed the "connection" attribute in the AssertionFinder class to be a property. However, the execution of line 231 cursor = self.connection.cursor() throws an error because the connection property is missing the self argument. This issue can be resolved easily by changing Line 128 def connection(): to def connection(self):.
As it stands, this bug breaks the master branch of conceptnet.