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NOUN: noun

Description

Nouns are a part of speech typically denoting a person, place, thing, animal or idea.

The NOUNtag is intended for common nouns only. See PROPN for proper nouns and PRON for pronouns.

Common nouns

Irish nouns are either masculine or feminine, and inflect for case and number. In Old Irish, nouns inflected for nominative, accusative and dative cases. All of these are now represented in Modern Irish by what’s referred to as the `common’ case. An exception to this is pronoun forms, where the subject and object forms differ: “he”/ é “him”.

The genitive case and vocative case are marked by inflection.

Each noun falls into one of five declensions.

Verbal nouns

Verbal nouns are marked as NOUN in the UD scheme. Verbal noun forms are used widely in Irish for the infinitive form (a dhéanamh “to do”) and progressive aspectual phrases (ag déanamh “doing/ making”).

Examples

Common nouns
Verbal nouns

Treebank Statistics (UD_Irish)

There are 2205 NOUN lemmas (53%), 3326 NOUN types (56%) and 6355 NOUN tokens (27%). Out of 16 observed tags, the rank of NOUN is: 1 in number of lemmas, 1 in number of types and 1 in number of tokens.

The 10 most frequent NOUN lemmas: duine, cuid, bliain, cur, bheith, déanamh, rud, alt, ceann, fear

The 10 most frequent NOUN types: bheith, chur, níos, rud, duine, dhéanamh, chuid, fear, dul, fáil

The 10 most frequent ambiguous lemmas: áit (NOUN 32, SCONJ 1), dóigh (NOUN 18, VERB 1), measc (NOUN 16, VERB 2), (NOUN 13, PROPN 2), roinn (NOUN 12, VERB 4), ceart (ADJ 13, NOUN 11), mac (NOUN 11, PART 9), úsáid (NOUN 9, VERB 7), meas (VERB 9, NOUN 7), céad (NUM 31, NOUN 6)

The 10 most frequent ambiguous types: áit (NOUN 20, SCONJ 1), ceart (NOUN 6, ADJ 5), go_leor (NOUN 6, ADV 2, ADJ 2), scríobh (NOUN 5, VERB 3), airde (NOUN 4, ADJ 1), gheall (NOUN 4, VERB 1), leath (NOUN 4, DET 1), (NOUN 4, PROPN 1), timpeall (ADV 6, NOUN 4), cuma (NOUN 3, ADJ 1)

Morphology

The form / lemma ratio of NOUN is 1.508390 (the average of all parts of speech is 1.449988).

The 1st highest number of forms (9) was observed with the lemma “bliain”: bhliain, bliain, bliana, blianta, mbliain, mblian, mbliana, mblianta, scoilbhliain.

The 2nd highest number of forms (9) was observed with the lemma “céim”: Chéadchéime, Céadchéime, Céimeanna, chomhchéim, chéim, comhchéim, céim, céime, iarchéime.

The 3rd highest number of forms (9) was observed with the lemma “duine”: daoine, dhaoine, dhuine, duine, ndaoine, seandaoine, sheandaoine, sheanduine, éinne.

NOUN occurs with 11 features: ga-feat/Number (5575; 88% instances), ga-feat/Case (5420; 85% instances), ga-feat/Gender (5399; 85% instances), ga-feat/Form (1567; 25% instances), ga-feat/Definite (1004; 16% instances), ga-feat/VerbForm (766; 12% instances), ga-feat/NounType (166; 3% instances), ga-feat/PartType (40; 1% instances), ga-feat/Degree (1; 0% instances), ga-feat/NumType (1; 0% instances), ga-feat/Reflex (1; 0% instances)

NOUN occurs with 22 feature-value pairs: Case=Com, Case=Dat, Case=Gen, Case=Voc, Definite=Def, Definite=Ind, Degree=Pos, Form=Ecl, Form=Emph, Form=HPref, Form=Len, Gender=Fem, Gender=Masc, NounType=Strong, NounType=Weak, NumType=Card, Number=Plur, Number=Sing, PartType=Comp, Reflex=Yes, VerbForm=Ger, VerbForm=Inf

NOUN occurs with 80 feature combinations. The most frequent feature combination is Case=Com|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing (1290 tokens). Examples: rud, duine, lá, measc, am, fear, alt, ceann, fad, lucht

Relations

NOUN nodes are attached to their parents using 26 different relations: ga-dep/nmod (2076; 33% instances), ga-dep/compound (1125; 18% instances), ga-dep/nsubj (794; 12% instances), ga-dep/dobj (615; 10% instances), ga-dep/xcomp (575; 9% instances), ga-dep/conj (393; 6% instances), ga-dep/xcomp:pred (244; 4% instances), ga-dep/root (166; 3% instances), ga-dep/appos (67; 1% instances), ga-dep/advmod (63; 1% instances), ga-dep/ccomp (57; 1% instances), ga-dep/mark:prt (45; 1% instances), ga-dep/nmod:tmod (42; 1% instances), ga-dep/advcl (30; 0% instances), ga-dep/mark (11; 0% instances), ga-dep/acl:relcl (10; 0% instances), ga-dep/nummod (10; 0% instances), ga-dep/vocative (8; 0% instances), ga-dep/csubj:cop (7; 0% instances), ga-dep/amod (5; 0% instances), ga-dep/name (5; 0% instances), ga-dep/cc (2; 0% instances), ga-dep/parataxis (2; 0% instances), ga-dep/case (1; 0% instances), ga-dep/det (1; 0% instances), ga-dep/foreign (1; 0% instances)

Parents of NOUN nodes belong to 15 different parts of speech: NOUN (2887; 45% instances), VERB (2579; 41% instances), ADJ (261; 4% instances), ROOT (166; 3% instances), PROPN (114; 2% instances), ADP (103; 2% instances), PRON (94; 1% instances), X (42; 1% instances), ADV (37; 1% instances), SCONJ (25; 0% instances), NUM (19; 0% instances), CONJ (14; 0% instances), PART (7; 0% instances), DET (4; 0% instances), PUNCT (3; 0% instances)

989 (16%) NOUN nodes are leaves.

1873 (29%) NOUN nodes have one child.

1905 (30%) NOUN nodes have two children.

1588 (25%) NOUN nodes have three or more children.

The highest child degree of a NOUN node is 18.

Children of NOUN nodes are attached using 35 different relations: ga-dep/case (2595; 22% instances), ga-dep/det (1775; 15% instances), ga-dep/compound (1303; 11% instances), ga-dep/nmod (1127; 10% instances), ga-dep/punct (670; 6% instances), ga-dep/amod (619; 5% instances), ga-dep/acl:relcl (403; 3% instances), ga-dep/conj (380; 3% instances), ga-dep/mark (380; 3% instances), ga-dep/cc (333; 3% instances), ga-dep/dobj (295; 3% instances), ga-dep/nummod (290; 3% instances), ga-dep/nmod:poss (233; 2% instances), ga-dep/advmod (213; 2% instances), ga-dep/xcomp (146; 1% instances), ga-dep/cop (144; 1% instances), ga-dep/nmod:prep (141; 1% instances), ga-dep/nsubj (112; 1% instances), ga-dep/ccomp (90; 1% instances), ga-dep/appos (70; 1% instances), ga-dep/xcomp:pred (51; 0% instances), ga-dep/csubj:cleft (43; 0% instances), ga-dep/advcl (36; 0% instances), ga-dep/mark:prt (20; 0% instances), ga-dep/csubj:cop (19; 0% instances), ga-dep/name (19; 0% instances), ga-dep/case:voc (11; 0% instances), ga-dep/nmod:tmod (10; 0% instances), ga-dep/list (9; 0% instances), ga-dep/compound:prt (7; 0% instances), ga-dep/vocative (6; 0% instances), ga-dep/parataxis (3; 0% instances), ga-dep/foreign (2; 0% instances), ga-dep/discourse (1; 0% instances), ga-dep/neg (1; 0% instances)

Children of NOUN nodes belong to 16 different parts of speech: NOUN (2887; 25% instances), ADP (2794; 24% instances), DET (1965; 17% instances), ADJ (715; 6% instances), VERB (695; 6% instances), PUNCT (674; 6% instances), CONJ (372; 3% instances), PROPN (360; 3% instances), PART (334; 3% instances), NUM (247; 2% instances), PRON (178; 2% instances), X (139; 1% instances), ADV (135; 1% instances), SCONJ (60; 1% instances), INTJ (1; 0% instances), SYM (1; 0% instances)


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