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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: sé “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

• fear “man”
• hata an fhir “the man’s hat”
• a mhúinteoir “teacher!”

Verbal nouns

• ag déanamh iarracht “making an attempt”
• beidh orthu gnó a dhéanamh leis “they will have to do business with him”
• scannán a dhéanamh “to make a movie”
• tá obair le déanamh “there is work to be done”

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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), mí (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), mí (NOUN 4, PROPN 1), timpeall (ADV 6, NOUN 4), cuma (NOUN 3, ADJ 1)

• áit
  • NOUN 20: Bhí gach uile mhac máthar san áit ag bualadh bos .
  • SCONJ 1: Cheannaigh sé leabhar áit a bhí sé ar fáil .
• ceart
  • NOUN 6: Ach an oiread le Steven Stiofáinín ( Seoige ) , dúirt sé ar television é agus dúirt sé an ceart .
  • ADJ 5: Tá truailliú mór san áit mar nach bhfuil córas séarachais mar is ceart ann .
• go_leor
  • NOUN 6: Bhí scaifte maith sa tábhairne seo anois , an ceann amháin i mBaile an Chaolais ach ar ndóigh go_leor óstáin .
  • ADV 2: Tá an éide scoile s’ againne maith go_leor anseo i Scoil Naomh Pól .
  • ADJ 2: Ar ndóigh bhí an tír suaite go_leor i_rith an am seo go léir .
• scríobh
  • NOUN 5: Thiocfadh leat caint agus scríobh fá seo go minic agus go fada .
  • VERB 3: ’ Ach thóg na leitreacha sin cian díom - na leitreacha a scríobh mé chomh maith leis na rudaí a scríobhadh chugam .
• airde
  • NOUN 4: Má bhí cúrsaí go dona , níor thug an gasúr óg mórán airde air sin .
  • ADJ 1: Is airde sliabh ná cnoc .
• gheall
  • NOUN 4: Mar gheall air sin bhíodh sliocht mór ar an Sapa Inca agus roghnaíodh sé a chúirt , a chuid riarthóirí agus a chomharba féin as a measc .
  • VERB 1: IS É IS PAITRIARC ann , duine ar oibrigh cumhacht Dé tríd chun an cine daonna a shlánú , duine ar gheall Dia dó bheith páirteach in obair an tslánaithe sin .
• leath
  • NOUN 4: Ar leath i_ndiaidh a seacht ar maidin a caitheadh anuas an bhonnóg .
  • DET 1: D’ fhan sé ansin go ciúin ins an seomra ar_feadh leath uair a chloig nuair a bhí tuirse air .
• mí
  • NOUN 4: I mí Eanáir , thuairisc na taighdeoirí céanna go raibh dath turcaide uirthi .
  • PROPN 1: Turas mí le fáil ar sheasca punt .
• timpeall
  • ADV 6: An mhaidin dar gcionn , dhúisigh mé go tobann agus d’ amharc mé timpeall orm .
  • NOUN 4: Fuair an chathair a raibh sí ina cónaí inti - Anaconda- a hainm ón nathair nimhe a bhí flúirseach timpeall an cheantair sin .
• cuma
  • NOUN 3: Luigh sé go dian leis an staidéar agus bhain sé amach céim B.A. Maidir_leis an damhsóir bhí cuma ainnis air agus bhí an oiread cótaí air a chlúdódh Coláiste na Tríonóide .
  • ADJ 1: Airteagal 23 Oibríochtaí eachtracha Féadfaidh BCE agus bainc cheannais náisiúnta : - caidreamh a bhunú le bainc cheannais agus le hinstitiúidí airgeadais i dtíortha eile agus , más iomchuí , le heagraíochtaí idirnáisiúnta ; - gach saghas sócmhainní airgid eachtraigh agus miotal lómhar a fháil agus a dhíol trí spotbheart agus réamhdhéileáil ; cuimseoidh an abairt ‘ sócmhainn airgid eachtraigh ‘ urrúis agus gach sócmhainn eile in airgeadra aon tíre nó in aonaid chuntais , is cuma cén fhoirm ina sealbhaítear iad ; - na sócmhainní dá dtagraítear san Airteagal seo a shealbhú agus a bhainisteoireacht ; - gach saghas idirbheart baincéireachta a sheoladh i ndáil le tríú tíortha agus le heagraíochtaí idirnáisiúnta lena n-áirítear oibríochtaí chun iasachtaí a fháil agus a thabhairt .

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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