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name: name

name is one of the three relations for compounding in UD (together with compound and mwe). It is used for proper nouns constituted of multiple nominal elements. For example, name would be used between the words of Hillary Rodham Clinton, New York, or Carl XVI Gustaf but not to replace the usual relations in a phrasal or clausal name like The king of Sweden or the novels The Lord of the Rings and Captured By Aliens. Words joined by name should all be part of a minimal noun phrase; otherwise regular syntactic relations should be used. This is basically similar to the treatment of noun compounds with compound, except that in many cases parts of the name may be another nominal element such as an adjective (United Airlines).

In general, names are annotated in a flat, head-initial structure, in which all words in the name modify the first one using the name label.

For organization names with clear syntactic modification structure, the dependencies should reflect the syntactic modification structure using regular syntactic relation, as in:.

In addition, regular syntactic relations are used: (i) for a modifying English determiner or (ii) to connect together the words of a description or name which involve English embedded prepositional phrases, sentences, etc.

If a name contains a function word in another language than English, we also use the name relation.


Treebank Statistics (UD_English)

This relation is universal.

1576 nodes (1%) are attached to their parents as name.

1566 instances of name (99%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 1.2506345177665.

The following 6 pairs of parts of speech are connected with name: PROPN-PROPN (1500; 95% instances), NOUN-PROPN (64; 4% instances), NOUN-NOUN (5; 0% instances), PROPN-NOUN (5; 0% instances), PRON-PROPN (1; 0% instances), PRON-VERB (1; 0% instances).


Treebank Statistics (UD_English-ESL)

This relation is universal.

167 nodes (0%) are attached to their parents as name.

167 instances of name (100%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 1.01197604790419.

The following 1 pairs of parts of speech are connected with name: PROPN-PROPN (167; 100% instances).


Treebank Statistics (UD_English-LinES)

This relation is universal.

644 nodes (1%) are attached to their parents as name.

594 instances of name (92%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 1.12732919254658.

The following 9 pairs of parts of speech are connected with name: PROPN-PROPN (356; 55% instances), PROPN-NOUN (209; 32% instances), NOUN-PROPN (48; 7% instances), ADV-PROPN (11; 2% instances), ADV-ADJ (5; 1% instances), ADV-NOUN (5; 1% instances), PROPN-ADJ (5; 1% instances), PROPN-NUM (4; 1% instances), PROPN-VERB (1; 0% instances).


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