PROPN

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`PROPN`: proper noun

Description

A proper noun is a noun that is the name of a specific individual, place, object or organisation. In Irish, proper nouns always have initial capitalisation.

Personal names are treated as a sequence of proper nouns. Note that some Irish names have name particles, such as Mac, Ó, Ní, etc., that form part of this sequence (e.g. Anne-Marie Nic Dhonncha).

Similarly, placenames can occur as a string of proper nouns (e.g. Baile Átha Cliath “Dublin”), as can organisations (e.g. an iris Irish Computer “the Irish Computer magazine”). Sometimes these strings can have an internal structure containing other parts of speech such as determiners, for example (Parlaimint na hEorpa “the European Parliament”).

When initial mutation occurs with proper nouns in Irish, the inflection is lowercase, while the main form retains the initial capitalisaion (e.g. i mBaile Átha Cliath “in Dublin”). Similarly, some titles can have lower-case prefixes (e.g. an t-iar-Ghobharnóir “the former Governor”).

Note that days of the week and months of the year in Irish, while capitialised, are not marked as proper nouns but common nouns instead.

Examples

Lá ‘le Pádraig “St. Patrick’s Day”
Co. Chiarraí “Co. Kerry”
Eoraip “Europe”
Michael D. Higgins
Lucht Oibre Labour Party

Treebank Statistics (UD_Irish)

There are 618 PROPN lemmas (15%), 659 PROPN types (11%) and 905 PROPN tokens (4%). Out of 16 observed tags, the rank of PROPN is: 2 in number of lemmas, 2 in number of types and 9 in number of tokens.

The 10 most frequent PROPN lemmas: Gaeilge, Éire, Baile, Átha_Cliath, Seán, Máire, Pádraig, Frainc, Eoraip, Gaillimh

The 10 most frequent PROPN types: Gaeilge, Átha_Cliath, Bhaile, Seán, hÉireann, mBaile, Éirinn, Ghaeilge, Mháire, Fraince

The 10 most frequent ambiguous lemmas: Éireannach (PROPN 4, ADJ 2), Eaglais (PROPN 3, NOUN 1), Eorpach (PROPN 3, ADJ 1), Gearmáin (PROPN 3, NOUN 1), Bean (PROPN 2, NOUN 1), Béal_Feirste (NOUN 2, PROPN 2), Muire (PROPN 2, NOUN 1), Mór (ADJ 2, PROPN 2), Rua (PROPN 2, ADJ 1), mí (NOUN 13, PROPN 2)

The 10 most frequent ambiguous types: Eaglais (PROPN 3, NOUN 1), Bean (PROPN 2, NOUN 1), Bhéal_Feirste (PROPN 2, NOUN 1), Rua (PROPN 2, ADJ 1), The (PROPN 2, X 1), mí (NOUN 4, PROPN 1), Cailín (PROPN 1, NOUN 1), Duine (PROPN 1, NOUN 1), Iúil (PROPN 1, NOUN 1), Muire (NOUN 1, PROPN 1)

Eaglais
- PROPN 3: Molaim a gcuid iarrachtaí sa ghnó fhiúntach sin ach bhí easpa ina gcuid oibre , sa dóigh is gur cuireadh béim láidir ar ghnéithe éagsúla den Eaglais .
- NOUN 1: Ní hé amháin sin ach bhí de thoradh ar an dá bheart fadbhreathnaitheacha sin aige gur mhaolaigh ar naimhdeas na Fraince don Eaglais .
Bean
- PROPN 2: Ghlac aintín a máthar , Bean Uí Eidhin , as Sráid na Cathrach , Co. an Chláir , cúram na beirte chuici féin .
- NOUN 1: Bean Uasal : Cén dul as a bhí agam ?
Bhéal_Feirste
- PROPN 2: Do thuairimíocht faoi do chuairt go hIarthar Bhéal_Feirste ?
- NOUN 1: Tháinig an maoiniú ó fhoinsí difriúla : IRP192,000 ó Belfast Regeneration Office ; IRP119,000 ón Childhood Fund ; IRP60,000 ó Chiste Síochána agus Athmhuintearais ( fríd an Roinn Oideachais ) , IRP70,000 ó Bhord Oideachais agus Leabharlainne Bhéal_Feirste agus IRP50,000 ó Fhoras na Gaeilge .
Rua
- PROPN 2: Casfaidh an Tearmann ar Aodh Rua as Béal Átha Seanaidh fosta .
- ADJ 1: Dá bhfeicfeá Teaim Rua is é ag séideadh na luatha Is na sáspain ag éirí ins na spéartha ; An mule ar an mbruach ag croitheadh a chuid cluasa Ag faire ag dul chuig an bhféasta .
The
- PROPN 2: Taispeántas Chomh maith leis an léacht lárnach sin ón Ollamh Ó Néill , chualathas sainléacht Kenneth Nicholls , Léachtóir le Stair i gColáiste na hOllscoile , Corcaigh , ar ‘ The Limerick / Cork Border in the Middle Ages ‘ .
- X 1: Suirbhéireacht Ordanáis Éireann , Rehab Group , Irish Shell , Sportsfile , Tesco Ireland agus The Yard .
mí
- NOUN 4: I mí Eanáir , thuairisc na taighdeoirí céanna go raibh dath turcaide uirthi .
- PROPN 1: Turas mí le fáil ar sheasca punt .
Cailín
- PROPN 1: Cailín is ea í .
- NOUN 1: Cailín deas ab fhearr liom a bheith ar láimh liom thar a bhfeacaíos riamh , ‘ Gus dá bpósfainn cailleach ghránna mo lánchreach ná mairfinn bliain , Ach phósfainn thusa , a ghrá ghil , a chúil fáinneach na dtrioplaí siar , Is do bhainfinnse binse breá duit chomh hálainn is a chonaic tú ariamh .
Duine
- PROPN 1: Duine fíorthuisceanach é Ciarán a thug faoi deara go luath buanna Chaitlín Maude .
- NOUN 1: Aonach a’ Phoic Duine a bheadh ag ceannach capaill ní dhéanfadh sé margadh le tincéirí ar eagla go mbuailfí bob air faoi mar a buaileadh ar Phádraig Bán ar Aonach a’ Phoic i gCill Orglan uair .
Iúil
- PROPN 1: Iúil - Meán Fómhair .
- NOUN 1: 2138/92 ón gComhairle an 23 Iúil 1992 ( IO Uimh. 31991 L 0068 : Treoir 91/68 / CEE ón gComhairle an 28 Eanáir 1991 maidir_le coinníollacha sláinte ainmhithe a rialaíonn trádáil in ainmhithe de chineál caorach agus de chineál gabhair laistigh den Chomhphobal ( IO L 46 , 19.2.1991 .
Muire
- NOUN 1: Dia’s Muire duit … … sea … … .
- PROPN 1: Fuair sí post ansin in Oifig na Deoise , i Halla Naomh Muire .

Morphology

The form / lemma ratio of PROPN is 1.066343 (the average of all parts of speech is 1.449988).

The 1st highest number of forms (6) was observed with the lemma “Éire”: hÉire, hÉireann, hÉirinn, Éire, Éireann, Éirinn.

The 2nd highest number of forms (4) was observed with the lemma “Gaeilge”: GHAEILGE, Gaeilge, Ghaeilge, nGaeilge.

The 3rd highest number of forms (4) was observed with the lemma “Gaillimh”: Gaillimh, Gaillimhe, Ghaillimh, nGaillimh.

PROPN occurs with 6 features: ga-feat/Gender (887; 98% instances), ga-feat/Case (877; 97% instances), ga-feat/Number (848; 94% instances), ga-feat/Form (121; 13% instances), ga-feat/Definite (45; 5% instances), ga-feat/NounType (4; 0% instances)

PROPN occurs with 14 feature-value pairs: Case=Com, Case=Dat, Case=Gen, Case=Voc, Definite=Def, Form=Ecl, Form=HPref, Form=Len, Gender=Fem, Gender=Masc, NounType=Strong, NounType=Weak, Number=Plur, Number=Sing

PROPN occurs with 35 feature combinations. The most frequent feature combination is Case=Com|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing (519 tokens). Examples: Seán, Chorcaí, Fianna_Fáil, John, Pádraig, Baile, Briain, Dochartaigh, Eoin, Euro

Relations

PROPN nodes are attached to their parents using 16 different relations: ga-dep/compound (314; 35% instances), ga-dep/nmod (218; 24% instances), ga-dep/nsubj (117; 13% instances), ga-dep/name (101; 11% instances), ga-dep/conj (49; 5% instances), ga-dep/root (33; 4% instances), ga-dep/appos (29; 3% instances), ga-dep/dobj (16; 2% instances), ga-dep/vocative (12; 1% instances), ga-dep/xcomp:pred (8; 1% instances), ga-dep/advmod (2; 0% instances), ga-dep/amod (2; 0% instances), ga-dep/advcl (1; 0% instances), ga-dep/case (1; 0% instances), ga-dep/ccomp (1; 0% instances), ga-dep/det (1; 0% instances)

Parents of PROPN nodes belong to 12 different parts of speech: NOUN (360; 40% instances), PROPN (250; 28% instances), VERB (216; 24% instances), ROOT (33; 4% instances), ADJ (17; 2% instances), ADP (11; 1% instances), X (9; 1% instances), PRON (4; 0% instances), SCONJ (2; 0% instances), CONJ (1; 0% instances), NUM (1; 0% instances), PUNCT (1; 0% instances)

368 (41%) PROPN nodes are leaves.

262 (29%) PROPN nodes have one child.

147 (16%) PROPN nodes have two children.

128 (14%) PROPN nodes have three or more children.

The highest child degree of a PROPN node is 9.

Children of PROPN nodes are attached using 28 different relations: ga-dep/case (186; 18% instances), ga-dep/name (153; 15% instances), ga-dep/compound (152; 15% instances), ga-dep/punct (139; 14% instances), ga-dep/det (126; 12% instances), ga-dep/conj (49; 5% instances), ga-dep/nmod (44; 4% instances), ga-dep/cc (33; 3% instances), ga-dep/appos (24; 2% instances), ga-dep/amod (21; 2% instances), ga-dep/nsubj (11; 1% instances), ga-dep/nummod (11; 1% instances), ga-dep/case:voc (10; 1% instances), ga-dep/cop (10; 1% instances), ga-dep/advmod (8; 1% instances), ga-dep/csubj:cleft (7; 1% instances), ga-dep/ccomp (6; 1% instances), ga-dep/mark (6; 1% instances), ga-dep/xcomp (6; 1% instances), ga-dep/acl:relcl (4; 0% instances), ga-dep/advcl (4; 0% instances), ga-dep/dobj (3; 0% instances), ga-dep/nmod:prep (3; 0% instances), ga-dep/xcomp:pred (3; 0% instances), ga-dep/parataxis (2; 0% instances), ga-dep/mark:prt (1; 0% instances), ga-dep/nmod:tmod (1; 0% instances), ga-dep/vocative (1; 0% instances)

Children of PROPN nodes belong to 14 different parts of speech: PROPN (250; 24% instances), ADP (193; 19% instances), PUNCT (139; 14% instances), DET (124; 12% instances), NOUN (114; 11% instances), PART (63; 6% instances), CONJ (37; 4% instances), VERB (28; 3% instances), ADJ (24; 2% instances), PRON (19; 2% instances), NUM (10; 1% instances), X (10; 1% instances), ADV (9; 1% instances), SCONJ (4; 0% instances)