PROPN: proper noun
Definition
A proper noun is a noun that is the name (or part of the name) of a unique entity, be it an individual, a place, or an object.
Acronyms of proper nouns, such as UN and NATO, are also tagged as PROPN.
Corresponding language-specific part-of-speech tags
SP: Proper noun
Examples
- Maria, Michelangelo
- Londra
- Ansaldo Energia
- Kim Il Sung
- NATO, HBO, U.S.A.
Treebank Statistics (UD_Italian)
There are 5328 PROPN lemmas (27%), 5372 PROPN types (19%) and 13401 PROPN tokens (5%).
Out of 17 observed tags, the rank of PROPN is: 2 in number of lemmas, 3 in number of types and 7 in number of tokens.
The 10 most frequent PROPN lemmas: Shakespeare, Balzac, Italia, Stati, Europa, San, Roma, Uniti, Albania, Marco
The 10 most frequent PROPN types: Shakespeare, Balzac, Italia, stati, Europa, San, Uniti, Albania, Marco, Roma
The 10 most frequent ambiguous lemmas: de (ADP 34, PROPN 8, X 3, DET 1), Stato (PROPN 40, NOUN 3), Germania (PROPN 28, NOUN 1), a (ADP 7044, NOUN 10, X 8, PROPN 3, DET 3, ADV 2, CONJ 1), Grande (PROPN 13, ADJ 1), Mondiali (PROPN 12, NOUN 2), Regione (PROPN 11, NOUN 1), di (ADP 17740, DET 27, PROPN 3, NOUN 1), C (PROPN 9, X 1), Ministro (PROPN 9, NOUN 1)
The 10 most frequent ambiguous types: stati (AUX 104, NOUN 46, VERB 26, PROPN 1), de (ADP 39, PROPN 8, X 2), Stato (NOUN 88, PROPN 40), Unione (PROPN 37, NOUN 6), europea (ADJ 31, PROPN 5), Camera (NOUN 23, PROPN 23), a (ADP 6336, NOUN 10, X 8, ADV 2, PROPN 2), nazioni (NOUN 7, PROPN 1), Broglio (PROPN 20, NOUN 2), Nord (PROPN 20, NOUN 3)
- stati
- AUX 104: Sono stati risparmiati soltanto in due :
- NOUN 46: Gli stati membri sono destinatari di la presente direttiva .
- VERB 26: I primi approcci non sono stati esaltanti .
- PROPN 1: considerando che non bisogna limitare la libertà di gli stati membri di mantenere o introdurre un divieto , totale o parziale , di concludere contratti fuori di i locali commerciali se ciò è fatto , a loro avviso , in l’ interesse di i consumatori ;
- de
- ADP 39: Come dicono le ragazze di “ Avanzi “ , “ ma de che , ahò ? “ .
- PROPN 8: La Melandri , la Gaiotti de Biase e tutte le altre Erinni si sono offese perché volevano andar ci loro .
- X 2: La prima opera è stata il Libellus de quinque corporibus regularibus , un trattato dedicato a la geometria , che ha ripreso temi antichi di tradizione platonico - pitagorica , studiati sempre con l’ intento di poter li utilizzare come elementi di il disegno .
- Stato
- Unione
- europea
- Camera
- a
- ADP 6336: Corriere Sport da pagina 23 a pagina 26
- NOUN 10: a ) il danno causato da la morte o da lesioni personali ,
- X 8: a ) trasporti ad hoc di merci pericolose ;
- ADV 2: con la scusa che non c’ è il testo , si nega da un lato il diritto di il presidente di la commissione di rivolger si a questo parlamento , e da l’ altro che abbia luogo una discussione su la riforma , senza che il parlamento conosca a priori i testi su cui si basa .
- PROPN 2: BRINDISI - Ieri Polignano a Mare ha ricordato il compaesano Domenico Modugno con un omaggio musicale di Napoli , a un anno da la scomparsa :
- nazioni
- Broglio
- PROPN 20: L’ approvazione di il Governo permetteva a Broglio di negoziare con la NASA un accordo per definire i rispettivi contributi .
- NOUN 2: Broglio ottenne inoltre il trasferimento di la gestione di il progetto da il CNR a l’ Università di Roma facendo sì che lo stesso fosse completamente sotto il suo controllo .
- Nord
Morphology
The form / lemma ratio of PROPN is 1.008258 (the average of all parts of speech is 1.491677).
The 1st highest number of forms (2) was observed with the lemma “Aids”: AIDS, Aids.
The 2nd highest number of forms (2) was observed with the lemma “As”: AS, As.
The 3rd highest number of forms (2) was observed with the lemma “Bogotà”: BOGOTÀ, Bogotà.
PROPN occurs with 3 features: it-feat/Degree (1; 0% instances), it-feat/Gender (1; 0% instances), it-feat/Number (1; 0% instances)
PROPN occurs with 3 feature-value pairs: Degree=Abs, Gender=Fem, Number=Plur
PROPN occurs with 3 feature combinations.
The most frequent feature combination is _ (13399 tokens).
Examples: Shakespeare, Balzac, Italia, stati, Europa, San, Uniti, Albania, Marco, Roma
Relations
PROPN nodes are attached to their parents using 16 different relations: it-dep/nmod (6489; 48% instances), it-dep/name (3183; 24% instances), it-dep/nsubj (1974; 15% instances), it-dep/conj (723; 5% instances), it-dep/dobj (356; 3% instances), it-dep/root (222; 2% instances), it-dep/appos (209; 2% instances), it-dep/nsubjpass (140; 1% instances), it-dep/xcomp (58; 0% instances), it-dep/parataxis (15; 0% instances), it-dep/vocative (13; 0% instances), it-dep/advcl (8; 0% instances), it-dep/ccomp (5; 0% instances), it-dep/acl:relcl (3; 0% instances), it-dep/csubj (2; 0% instances), it-dep/punct (1; 0% instances)
Parents of PROPN nodes belong to 16 different parts of speech: NOUN (4656; 35% instances), PROPN (4447; 33% instances), VERB (3589; 27% instances), PRON (251; 2% instances), ROOT (222; 2% instances), ADJ (181; 1% instances), ADV (17; 0% instances), NUM (15; 0% instances), AUX (4; 0% instances), INTJ (4; 0% instances), PUNCT (4; 0% instances), SYM (4; 0% instances), DET (3; 0% instances), CONJ (2; 0% instances), SCONJ (1; 0% instances), X (1; 0% instances)
4933 (37%) PROPN nodes are leaves.
3588 (27%) PROPN nodes have one child.
2498 (19%) PROPN nodes have two children.
2382 (18%) PROPN nodes have three or more children.
The highest child degree of a PROPN node is 38.
Children of PROPN nodes are attached using 30 different relations: it-dep/case (5111; 28% instances), it-dep/name (3261; 18% instances), it-dep/det (3009; 17% instances), it-dep/punct (2627; 15% instances), it-dep/nmod (1139; 6% instances), it-dep/conj (812; 4% instances), it-dep/cc (535; 3% instances), it-dep/amod (407; 2% instances), it-dep/appos (300; 2% instances), it-dep/acl:relcl (217; 1% instances), it-dep/nummod (183; 1% instances), it-dep/acl (163; 1% instances), it-dep/advmod (136; 1% instances), it-dep/cop (42; 0% instances), it-dep/nsubj (25; 0% instances), it-dep/parataxis (23; 0% instances), it-dep/advcl (18; 0% instances), it-dep/det:predet (16; 0% instances), it-dep/mwe (16; 0% instances), it-dep/mark (11; 0% instances), it-dep/neg (11; 0% instances), it-dep/det:poss (9; 0% instances), it-dep/ccomp (5; 0% instances), it-dep/aux (4; 0% instances), it-dep/discourse (3; 0% instances), it-dep/xcomp (3; 0% instances), it-dep/foreign (2; 0% instances), it-dep/vocative (2; 0% instances), it-dep/dep (1; 0% instances), it-dep/dobj (1; 0% instances)
Children of PROPN nodes belong to 17 different parts of speech: ADP (5073; 28% instances), PROPN (4447; 25% instances), DET (3034; 17% instances), PUNCT (2632; 15% instances), NOUN (976; 5% instances), CONJ (533; 3% instances), VERB (435; 2% instances), ADJ (428; 2% instances), NUM (241; 1% instances), ADV (194; 1% instances), PRON (46; 0% instances), SYM (25; 0% instances), SCONJ (11; 0% instances), X (6; 0% instances), AUX (4; 0% instances), PART (4; 0% instances), INTJ (3; 0% instances)
PROPN in other languages: [bg] [cs] [de] [el] [en] [es] [eu] [fa] [fi] [fr] [ga] [he] [hu] [it] [ja] [ko] [sv] [u]