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PROPN: proper noun

Definition

A proper noun is a noun (or nominal content word) that is the name (or part of the name) of a specific individual, place, or object.

Examples


Treebank Statistics (UD_Basque)

There are 3187 PROPN lemmas (27%), 5014 PROPN types (20%) and 9869 PROPN tokens (8%). Out of 16 observed tags, the rank of PROPN is: 2 in number of lemmas, 2 in number of types and 5 in number of tokens.

The 10 most frequent PROPN lemmas: Europa, Espainia, Frantzia, Real, EEBB, ETA, Israel, Athletic, EAJ, Madril

The 10 most frequent PROPN types: Europako, Espainiako, Frantziako, Israelgo, Jose, Juan, Euskal, Nafarroako, EEBBetako, Jugoslaviako

The 10 most frequent ambiguous lemmas: Europa (PROPN 104, NOUN 1), Frantzia (PROPN 99, NOUN 1), Real (PROPN 69, NOUN 1), ETA (PROPN 66, NOUN 2), Alemania (PROPN 48, NOUN 1), Sydney (PROPN 34, NOUN 3), Baskonia (PROPN 27, NOUN 1), Bartzelona (PROPN 23, NOUN 1), Irlanda (PROPN 21, NOUN 1), UPN (PROPN 20, NOUN 1)

The 10 most frequent ambiguous types: Euskal (NOUN 105, PROPN 33), Mari (PROPN 14, NOUN 2), La (PROPN 9, X 1, NOUN 1), ETA (PROPN 7, CONJ 2), El (PROPN 7, X 3), Osasuna (PROPN 6, NOUN 1), Osasunaren (PROPN 6, NOUN 1), Jesus (PROPN 5, INTJ 1), Lotina (PROPN 5, ADJ 1), Piztu (PROPN 5, VERB 2)

Morphology

The form / lemma ratio of PROPN is 1.573266 (the average of all parts of speech is 2.169707).

The 1st highest number of forms (11) was observed with the lemma “Espainia”: ESPAINIAKO, Espainia, Espainiak, Espainiako, Espainian, Espainiara, Espainiarekiko, Espainiarekin, Espainiaren, Espainiari, Espainiatik.

The 2nd highest number of forms (11) was observed with the lemma “Italia”: ITALIAK, ITALIAKO, ITALIAREKIN, Italia, Italiak, Italiako, Italian, Italian–, Italiara, Italiaren, Italiarentzat.

The 3rd highest number of forms (11) was observed with the lemma “Madril”: MADRILEN, MADRILGO, Madril, Madrildik, Madrilek, Madrileko, Madrilen, Madrilera, Madriletik, Madrilgo, Madrili.

PROPN occurs with 4 features: eu-feat/Case (6418; 65% instances), eu-feat/Definite (6192; 63% instances), eu-feat/Number (6190; 63% instances), eu-feat/Animacy (95; 1% instances)

PROPN occurs with 21 feature-value pairs: Animacy=Anim, Animacy=Inan, Case=Abl, Case=Abs, Case=All, Case=Ben, Case=Cau, Case=Com, Case=Dat, Case=Erg, Case=Ess, Case=Gen, Case=Ine, Case=Ins, Case=Lat, Case=Loc, Case=Par, Definite=Def, Definite=Ind, Number=Plur, Number=Sing

PROPN occurs with 46 feature combinations. The most frequent feature combination is _ (3448 tokens). Examples: Jose, Juan, Euskal, Iñaki, Luis, Joseba, David, Mikel, Jean, Miguel

Relations

PROPN nodes are attached to their parents using 22 different relations: eu-dep/nmod (4236; 43% instances), eu-dep/nsubj (2206; 22% instances), eu-dep/name (1807; 18% instances), eu-dep/conj (783; 8% instances), eu-dep/dobj (247; 3% instances), eu-dep/iobj (233; 2% instances), eu-dep/appos (152; 2% instances), eu-dep/compound (85; 1% instances), eu-dep/dep (36; 0% instances), eu-dep/vocative (25; 0% instances), eu-dep/root (17; 0% instances), eu-dep/advmod (9; 0% instances), eu-dep/punct (9; 0% instances), eu-dep/xcomp (7; 0% instances), eu-dep/case (6; 0% instances), eu-dep/parataxis (3; 0% instances), eu-dep/advcl (2; 0% instances), eu-dep/ccomp (2; 0% instances), eu-dep/acl (1; 0% instances), eu-dep/amod (1; 0% instances), eu-dep/csubj (1; 0% instances), eu-dep/det (1; 0% instances)

Parents of PROPN nodes belong to 15 different parts of speech: VERB (3612; 37% instances), NOUN (3049; 31% instances), PROPN (2641; 27% instances), ADJ (214; 2% instances), ADP (93; 1% instances), CONJ (74; 1% instances), X (62; 1% instances), NUM (35; 0% instances), PUNCT (32; 0% instances), ADV (20; 0% instances), ROOT (17; 0% instances), AUX (11; 0% instances), DET (6; 0% instances), PRON (2; 0% instances), PART (1; 0% instances)

6727 (68%) PROPN nodes are leaves.

2360 (24%) PROPN nodes have one child.

429 (4%) PROPN nodes have two children.

353 (4%) PROPN nodes have three or more children.

The highest child degree of a PROPN node is 20.

Children of PROPN nodes are attached using 19 different relations: eu-dep/name (1835; 38% instances), eu-dep/conj (816; 17% instances), eu-dep/punct (593; 12% instances), eu-dep/cc (543; 11% instances), eu-dep/case (238; 5% instances), eu-dep/nmod (227; 5% instances), eu-dep/appos (189; 4% instances), eu-dep/compound (99; 2% instances), eu-dep/amod (95; 2% instances), eu-dep/dep (71; 1% instances), eu-dep/acl (27; 1% instances), eu-dep/det (27; 1% instances), eu-dep/cop (22; 0% instances), eu-dep/nsubj (18; 0% instances), eu-dep/advcl (12; 0% instances), eu-dep/advmod (11; 0% instances), eu-dep/nummod (9; 0% instances), eu-dep/dobj (1; 0% instances), eu-dep/xcomp (1; 0% instances)

Children of PROPN nodes belong to 14 different parts of speech: PROPN (2641; 55% instances), PUNCT (603; 12% instances), CONJ (551; 11% instances), NOUN (429; 9% instances), ADP (233; 5% instances), ADJ (101; 2% instances), NUM (95; 2% instances), VERB (58; 1% instances), X (46; 1% instances), DET (38; 1% instances), ADV (21; 0% instances), PART (12; 0% instances), SYM (4; 0% instances), PRON (2; 0% instances)


PROPN in other languages: [bg] [cs] [de] [el] [en] [es] [eu] [fa] [fi] [fr] [ga] [he] [hu] [it] [ja] [ko] [sv] [u]