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PROPN: proper noun

The English PROPN corresponds to everything tagged NNP or NNPS in the PTB tag set. (Note that at present we make no attempt to exclude words arguably of other parts of speech which appear in proper noun phrases that the PTB tag set would tag with NNP(S). So, United States is United/PROPN States/PROPN.)

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Treebank Statistics (UD_English)

There are 5175 PROPN lemmas (26%), 5175 PROPN types (23%) and 16899 PROPN tokens (7%). Out of 17 observed tags, the rank of PROPN is: 2 in number of lemmas, 2 in number of types and 7 in number of tokens.

The 10 most frequent PROPN lemmas: bush, US, al, Iraq, enron, united, Iran, New, China, states

The 10 most frequent PROPN types: bush, US, al, Iraq, enron, united, Iran, New, China, states

The 10 most frequent ambiguous lemmas: bush (NOUN 1, PROPN 1), al (PROPN 67, X 1), enron (PROPN 7, X 5), united (PROPN 3, ADJ 1), president (NOUN 17, PROPN 14), may (AUX 226, PROPN 1), july (ADV 1, PROPN 1), google (VERB 8, PROPN 2, NOUN 1), sara (X 3, PROPN 1), mike (X 1, PROPN 1)

The 10 most frequent ambiguous types: al (PROPN 67, X 1), united (PROPN 3, ADJ 1), New (PROPN 89, ADJ 5, NOUN 1), states (NOUN 10, PROPN 6, VERB 5), John (PROPN 75, X 4), president (PROPN 14, NOUN 11), may (AUX 221, PROPN 1), National (PROPN 45, ADJ 5), Vince (PROPN 45, X 1), google (VERB 2, PROPN 2, NOUN 1)

• al
  • PROPN 67: All this is highly unlikely , as with most al - Qaeda crackpot schemes .
  • X 1: FYI , we had an instructive rest of the conference call on Friday with Sue and Robbie et al .
• united
  • PROPN 3: Can I text from Canada to the united states ?
  • ADJ 1: Like in the case of organized crime , it is crucial that the forces on the offensive be united and it is crucial to reach the top of the crime pyramid .
• New
  • PROPN 89: ( New Scientist Space )
  • ADJ 5: The New Italian Kid on the Block
  • NOUN 1: The wires have been humming since before the New Year with reports that the Bush administration is planning an attack on Iran .
• states
  • NOUN 10: 5 - Number of states that do not use the word “ evolution “ in public school science courses .
  • PROPN 6: Can I text from Canada to the united states ?
  • VERB 5: HOWEVER … that same web page also states that “ The current pass mark is 67 .
• John
  • PROPN 75: Mary John , Russell Dyk , Webb Jennings , Martin Gonzales
  • X 4: John Griffith@ENRON
• president
  • PROPN 14: Electricity : A panel focuses on price hikes and the actions of the ISO president .
  • NOUN 11: The future president joined the Guard in May 1968 .
• may
  • AUX 221: Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.0 may be downloaded for FREE from www.adobe.com .
  • PROPN 1: Problem is , for some reason , the visa process took longer than it should , thus I missed school this semester ( visa was issued to me about 25 days after school started so I could n’t attend ) , now I no longer want to go into that school ( because they only would accept me again on September of 2012 ) , I found a school that accepted me for may 2012 , can I use the same visa that was issued to me ?
• National
  • PROPN 45: What is the nearest National Park to Birmingham , UK ?
  • ADJ 5: 101 - Number of Bush administration public statements on National security and defense in the same period that mentioned missile defence .
• Vince
  • PROPN 45: Vince
  • X 1: Vince J Kaminski@ECT
• google
  • VERB 2: google nazi stolen art recovery …
  • PROPN 2: VISAKHA INDUSTRIAL GASES PVT. LTD. , location at google maps .
  • NOUN 1: Try google to find the title if you would like to read it .

Morphology

The form / lemma ratio of PROPN is 1.000000 (the average of all parts of speech is 1.173588).

The 1st highest number of forms (1) was observed with the lemma “’Akkab”: ‘Akkab.

The 2nd highest number of forms (1) was observed with the lemma “10th”: 10th.

The 3rd highest number of forms (1) was observed with the lemma “11”: 11.

PROPN occurs with 2 features: en-feat/Number (16896; 100% instances), en-feat/Degree (3; 0% instances)

PROPN occurs with 3 feature-value pairs: Degree=Pos, Number=Plur, Number=Sing

PROPN occurs with 3 feature combinations. The most frequent feature combination is Number=Sing (16258 tokens). Examples: Bush, US, al, Iraq, enron, united, Iran, New, China, states

Relations

PROPN nodes are attached to their parents using 30 different relations: en-dep/compound (4429; 26% instances), en-dep/nmod (3778; 22% instances), en-dep/nsubj (2013; 12% instances), en-dep/name (1620; 10% instances), en-dep/root (1420; 8% instances), en-dep/conj (1000; 6% instances), en-dep/dobj (671; 4% instances), en-dep/appos (639; 4% instances), en-dep/nmod:poss (482; 3% instances), en-dep/list (201; 1% instances), en-dep/vocative (117; 1% instances), en-dep/nsubjpass (112; 1% instances), en-dep/nmod:tmod (99; 1% instances), en-dep/xcomp (66; 0% instances), en-dep/parataxis (61; 0% instances), en-dep/nmod:npmod (50; 0% instances), en-dep/advcl (31; 0% instances), en-dep/ccomp (28; 0% instances), en-dep/iobj (24; 0% instances), en-dep/amod (18; 0% instances), en-dep/remnant (14; 0% instances), en-dep/acl:relcl (9; 0% instances), en-dep/discourse (4; 0% instances), en-dep/acl (3; 0% instances), en-dep/case (2; 0% instances), en-dep/csubj (2; 0% instances), en-dep/nummod (2; 0% instances), en-dep/reparandum (2; 0% instances), en-dep/advmod (1; 0% instances), en-dep/cc (1; 0% instances)

Parents of PROPN nodes belong to 16 different parts of speech: PROPN (6653; 39% instances), VERB (4229; 25% instances), NOUN (3999; 24% instances), ROOT (1420; 8% instances), ADJ (345; 2% instances), ADV (105; 1% instances), PRON (61; 0% instances), NUM (47; 0% instances), INTJ (18; 0% instances), DET (7; 0% instances), AUX (4; 0% instances), SYM (4; 0% instances), X (4; 0% instances), ADP (1; 0% instances), CONJ (1; 0% instances), PUNCT (1; 0% instances)

7987 (47%) PROPN nodes are leaves.

4187 (25%) PROPN nodes have one child.

2148 (13%) PROPN nodes have two children.

2577 (15%) PROPN nodes have three or more children.

The highest child degree of a PROPN node is 35.

Children of PROPN nodes are attached using 35 different relations: en-dep/case (4537; 23% instances), en-dep/compound (3313; 17% instances), en-dep/punct (2715; 14% instances), en-dep/name (1541; 8% instances), en-dep/det (1421; 7% instances), en-dep/conj (1172; 6% instances), en-dep/cc (898; 5% instances), en-dep/appos (625; 3% instances), en-dep/list (577; 3% instances), en-dep/nummod (573; 3% instances), en-dep/nmod (544; 3% instances), en-dep/amod (370; 2% instances), en-dep/cop (187; 1% instances), en-dep/nsubj (177; 1% instances), en-dep/acl:relcl (130; 1% instances), en-dep/advmod (126; 1% instances), en-dep/parataxis (123; 1% instances), en-dep/nmod:poss (118; 1% instances), en-dep/nmod:tmod (57; 0% instances), en-dep/acl (51; 0% instances), en-dep/mark (50; 0% instances), en-dep/discourse (34; 0% instances), en-dep/aux (33; 0% instances), en-dep/cc:preconj (32; 0% instances), en-dep/neg (21; 0% instances), en-dep/nmod:npmod (21; 0% instances), en-dep/remnant (10; 0% instances), en-dep/advcl (9; 0% instances), en-dep/expl (4; 0% instances), en-dep/vocative (4; 0% instances), en-dep/reparandum (3; 0% instances), en-dep/dep (1; 0% instances), en-dep/det:predet (1; 0% instances), en-dep/goeswith (1; 0% instances), en-dep/xcomp (1; 0% instances)

Children of PROPN nodes belong to 17 different parts of speech: PROPN (6653; 34% instances), ADP (3930; 20% instances), PUNCT (2730; 14% instances), DET (1435; 7% instances), NOUN (1041; 5% instances), CONJ (892; 5% instances), NUM (787; 4% instances), PART (573; 3% instances), VERB (497; 3% instances), ADJ (370; 2% instances), PRON (172; 1% instances), ADV (154; 1% instances), X (116; 1% instances), SCONJ (36; 0% instances), SYM (34; 0% instances), AUX (33; 0% instances), INTJ (27; 0% instances)

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