PROPN

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`PROPN`: proper noun

Definition

A proper noun is a noun referring to a (more or less) unique object, such as a person or a country.

Examples

Ἀθῆναι “Athens”
Δημοσθένης “Demosthenes”

Treebank Statistics (UD_Ancient_Greek-PROIEL)

There are 1378 PROPN lemmas (15%), 2394 PROPN types (7%) and 8596 PROPN tokens (4%). Out of 13 observed tags, the rank of PROPN is: 4 in number of lemmas, 4 in number of types and 9 in number of tokens.

The 10 most frequent PROPN lemmas: Ἰησοῦς, Χριστός, Κροῖσος, Παῦλος, Πέτρος, Ἰωάν(ν)ης, Ἱεροσόλυμα, Κῦρος, Δαρεῖος, Ξέρξης

The 10 most frequent PROPN types: Ἰησοῦς, Ἰησοῦ, Χριστοῦ, Ἰησοῦν, Χριστῷ, Πέτρος, Παῦλος, Ξέρξης, Κροῖσος, Χριστὸς

The 10 most frequent ambiguous lemmas: Χριστός (PROPN 485, NOUN 1), Παῦλος (PROPN 153, NOUN 3), Πέτρος (PROPN 148, NOUN 5), Ἑλλάς (PROPN 80, ADJ 6), Ἀσία (PROPN 79, NOUN 1), Μωϋσῆς (PROPN 75, NOUN 2), Δελφοί (PROPN 63, NOUN 14), Σατανᾶς (PROPN 31, NOUN 1), Πεισίστρατος (PROPN 30, NOUN 1), Βαβυλών (PROPN 25, NOUN 1)

The 10 most frequent ambiguous types: Χριστοῦ (PROPN 222, NOUN 1), Πέτρος (PROPN 93, NOUN 5), Παῦλος (PROPN 74, NOUN 3), Ἑλλάδα (PROPN 49, ADJ 4), Μωϋσῆς (PROPN 40, NOUN 1), Ἰουδαίας (PROPN 25, ADJ 1), Μωϋσέως (PROPN 21, NOUN 1), Τιμόθεος (PROPN 10, NOUN 2), Πεισίστρατος (PROPN 9, NOUN 1), Ἰουδαίᾳ (PROPN 9, ADJ 1)

Χριστοῦ
- PROPN 222: ἡ χάρις καὶ ἡ ἀλήθεια διὰ Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ ἐγένετο
- NOUN 1: Διὸ ἀφέντες τὸν τῆς ἀρχῆς τοῦ Χριστοῦ λόγον ἐπὶ τὴν τελειότητα φερώμεθα μὴ πάλιν θεμέλιον καταβαλλόμενοι μετανοίας ἀπὸ νεκρῶν ἔργων καὶ πίστεως ἐπὶ θεόν βαπτισμῶν διδαχῆς ἐπιθέσεώς τε χειρῶν ἀναστάσεώς τε νεκρῶν καὶ κρίματος αἰωνίου
Πέτρος
- PROPN 93: λέγει αὐτῷ ὁ Πέτρος
- NOUN 5: Καὶ ἐν ταῖς ἡμέραις ταύταις ἀναστὰς Πέτρος ἐν μέσῳ τῶν ἀδελφῶν εἶπεν
Παῦλος
- PROPN 74: καταβὰς δὲ ὁ Παῦλος ἐπέπεσεν αὐτῷ καὶ συμπεριλαβὼν εἶπεν
- NOUN 3: ἐγὼ Παῦλος ἔγραψα τῇ ἐμῇ χειρί
Ἑλλάδα
- PROPN 49: τί γὰρ οὐκ ἤγαγε ἐκ τῆς Ἀσίης ἔθνος ἐπὶ τὴν Ἑλλάδα Ξέρξης
- ADJ 4: δύναται δὲ κατὰ Ἑλλάδα γλῶσσαν ταῦτα τὰ οὐνόματα Δαρεῖος ἐρξίης Ξέρξης ἀρήιος Ἀρτοξέρξης μέγας ἀρήιος
Μωϋσῆς
- PROPN 40: Μωϋσῆς γὰρ εἶπεν
- NOUN 1: Μωϋσῆς μὲν εἶπεν ὅτι
Ἰουδαίας
- PROPN 25: ἐν Βηθλέεμ τῆς Ἰουδαίας
- ADJ 1: καὶ ἰδοὺ μαθητής τις ἦν ἐκεῖ ὀνόματι Τιμόθεος υἱὸς γυναικὸς Ἰουδαίας πιστῆς πατρὸς δὲ Ἕλληνος ὃς ἐμαρτυρεῖτο ὑπὸ τῶν ἐν Λύστροις καὶ Ἰκονίῳ ἀδελφῶν
Μωϋσέως
- PROPN 21: δεῖ περιτέμνειν αὐτοὺς παραγγέλλειν τε τηρεῖν τὸν νόμον Μωϋσέως
- NOUN 1: ὁ Μωϋσῆς δέδωκεν ὑμῖν τὴν περιτομήν οὐχ ὅτι ἐκ τοῦ Μωϋσέως ἐστίν ἀλλ’ ἐκ τῶν πατέρων καὶ ἐν σαββάτῳ περιτέμνετε ἄνθρωπον
Τιμόθεος
- PROPN 10: ὑπέμεινάν τε ὅ τε Σιλᾶς καὶ ὁ Τιμόθεος ἐκεῖ
- NOUN 2: Ἀσπάζεται ὑμᾶς Τιμόθεος ὁ συνεργός μου καὶ Λούκιος καὶ Ἰάσων καὶ Σωσίπατρος οἱ συγγενεῖς μου
Πεισίστρατος
- PROPN 9: καὶ Πεισίστρατος μὲν ἐτυράννευε Ἀθηνέων
- NOUN 1: οὕτω μὲν Πεισίστρατος ἔσχε τὸ πρῶτον Ἀθήνας καὶ τὴν τυραννίδα οὔκω κάρτα ἐρριζωμένην ἔχων ἀπέβαλε
Ἰουδαίᾳ
- PROPN 9: οὐ γὰρ ἤθελεν ἐν τῇ Ἰουδαίᾳ περιπατεῖν ὅτι ἐζήτουν αὐτὸν οἱ Ἰουδαῖοι ἀποκτεῖναι
- ADJ 1: Μετὰ δὲ ἡμέρας τινὰς παραγενόμενος ὁ Φῆλιξ σὺν Δρουσίλλῃ τῇ ἰδίᾳ γυναικὶ οὔσῃ Ἰουδαίᾳ μετεπέμψατο τὸν Παῦλον καὶ ἤκουσεν αὐτοῦ περὶ τῆς εἰς Χριστὸν Ἰησοῦν πίστεως

Morphology

The form / lemma ratio of PROPN is 1.737300 (the average of all parts of speech is 3.412038).

The 1st highest number of forms (9) was observed with the lemma “Ζεύς”: Δία, Διί, Διός, Διὶ, Διὸς, Ζεὺς, Ζεῦ, Ζηνὶ, Ζηνὸς.

The 2nd highest number of forms (8) was observed with the lemma “Ἀσία”: Ἀσία, Ἀσίαν, Ἀσίας, Ἀσίη, Ἀσίην, Ἀσίης, Ἀσίᾳ, Ἀσίῃ.

The 3rd highest number of forms (7) was observed with the lemma “Βαρναβᾶς”: Βαρνάβαν, Βαρνάβας, Βαρνάβᾳ, Βαρναβᾶ, Βαρναβᾶν, Βαρναβᾶς, Βαρναβᾷ.

PROPN occurs with 3 features: Case (7848; 91% instances), Gender (7848; 91% instances), Number (7848; 91% instances)

PROPN occurs with 11 feature-value pairs: Case=Acc, Case=Dat, Case=Gen, Case=Nom, Case=Voc, Gender=Fem, Gender=Fem,Masc, Gender=Masc, Gender=Neut, Number=Plur, Number=Sing

PROPN occurs with 31 feature combinations. The most frequent feature combination is Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing (2181 tokens). Examples: Ἰησοῦς, Πέτρος, Παῦλος, Ξέρξης, Κροῖσος, Χριστὸς, Ἰωάννης, Κῦρος, Μωϋσῆς, Πειλᾶτος

Relations

PROPN nodes are attached to their parents using 17 different relations: nmod (2143; 25% instances), nsubj (2091; 24% instances), iobj (1616; 19% instances), dobj (670; 8% instances), conj (557; 6% instances), appos (494; 6% instances), name (280; 3% instances), nsubjpass (227; 3% instances), xcomp (155; 2% instances), root (117; 1% instances), vocative (106; 1% instances), remnant (81; 1% instances), advcl (26; 0% instances), ccomp (26; 0% instances), parataxis (3; 0% instances), advmod (2; 0% instances), aux (2; 0% instances)

Parents of PROPN nodes belong to 12 different parts of speech: VERB (5117; 60% instances), NOUN (1712; 20% instances), PROPN (1167; 14% instances), ADJ (243; 3% instances), ROOT (117; 1% instances), ADV (96; 1% instances), PRON (90; 1% instances), NUM (24; 0% instances), ADP (18; 0% instances), CONJ (4; 0% instances), INTJ (4; 0% instances), SCONJ (4; 0% instances)

2798 (33%) PROPN nodes are leaves.

3549 (41%) PROPN nodes have one child.

1447 (17%) PROPN nodes have two children.

802 (9%) PROPN nodes have three or more children.

The highest child degree of a PROPN node is 23.

Children of PROPN nodes are attached using 24 different relations: det (3209; 33% instances), case (2158; 22% instances), nmod (746; 8% instances), cc (720; 7% instances), appos (710; 7% instances), conj (631; 7% instances), name (280; 3% instances), acl (231; 2% instances), cop (198; 2% instances), nsubj (197; 2% instances), discourse (125; 1% instances), amod (120; 1% instances), iobj (93; 1% instances), advmod (77; 1% instances), remnant (74; 1% instances), mark (26; 0% instances), neg (24; 0% instances), advcl (8; 0% instances), ccomp (3; 0% instances), nummod (3; 0% instances), aux (2; 0% instances), dobj (2; 0% instances), mwe (2; 0% instances), vocative (2; 0% instances)

Children of PROPN nodes belong to 12 different parts of speech: DET (3209; 33% instances), ADP (2159; 22% instances), PROPN (1167; 12% instances), NOUN (950; 10% instances), CONJ (721; 7% instances), VERB (532; 6% instances), ADJ (434; 5% instances), ADV (227; 2% instances), PRON (189; 2% instances), SCONJ (26; 0% instances), NUM (17; 0% instances), INTJ (10; 0% instances)