PROPN

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`PROPN`: proper noun

Definition

A proper noun is a noun that is the name (or part of the name) of a unique entity, be it an individual, a place, or an object.

Acronyms of proper nouns, such as UN and NATO, are also tagged as PROPN.

Corresponding language-specific part-of-speech tags

SP: Proper noun

Examples

Maria, Michelangelo
Londra
Ansaldo Energia
Kim Il Sung
NATO, HBO, U.S.A.

Treebank Statistics (UD_Italian)

There are 5610 PROPN lemmas (28%), 5656 PROPN types (19%) and 14760 PROPN tokens (5%). Out of 17 observed tags, the rank of PROPN is: 2 in number of lemmas, 3 in number of types and 7 in number of tokens.

The 10 most frequent PROPN lemmas: Italia, Shakespeare, Balzac, Roma, Europa, Stati, Uniti, San, Albania, Marco

The 10 most frequent PROPN types: Italia, Shakespeare, Balzac, Europa, Roma, Stati, Uniti, San, Albania, Marco

The 10 most frequent ambiguous lemmas: de (ADP 38, PROPN 6, X 3, DET 3), Unione (PROPN 43, NOUN 6), europea (ADJ 21, PROPN 5), Germania (PROPN 32, NOUN 1), a (ADP 7523, NOUN 10, X 8, PROPN 3, DET 3, ADV 2, CONJ 1), Stato (PROPN 24, NOUN 12), Camera (PROPN 23, NOUN 9), Nord (PROPN 20, NOUN 1), repubblica (NOUN 105, PROPN 1), Papa (PROPN 17, NOUN 1)

The 10 most frequent ambiguous types: Stati (PROPN 79, NOUN 49), San (PROPN 78, ADJ 3), de (ADP 43, PROPN 6, DET 2, X 2), Unione (PROPN 43, NOUN 29), europea (ADJ 54, PROPN 5), Stato (NOUN 117, PROPN 24), a (ADP 6766, NOUN 10, X 8, PROPN 2, ADV 2), Camera (NOUN 32, PROPN 23), nazioni (NOUN 9, PROPN 1), Broglio (PROPN 20, NOUN 2)

Stati
- PROPN 79: Chi era il presidente di gli Stati Uniti in il 1994 ?
- NOUN 49: Gli Stati membri vigilano affinché si applichino a i contratti i principi seguenti :
San
- PROPN 78: La donna è stata ricoverata a il San Paolo .
- ADJ 3: Tra le opere più famose di Caravaggio ricordiamo la Conversione di San Paolo e la Crocifissione di San Pietro .
de
- ADP 43: Come dicono le ragazze di “ Avanzi “ , “ ma de che , ahò ? “ .
- PROPN 6: I brasiliani hanno eletto Tancredo de Almeida Neves , un candidato di centro-sinistra .
- DET 2: Le tre signore erano chiamate Les triplettes de Belleville .
- X 2: La prima opera è stata il Libellus de quinque corporibus regularibus , un trattato dedicato a la geometria , che ha ripreso temi antichi di tradizione platonico - pitagorica , studiati sempre con l’ intento di poter li utilizzare come elementi di il disegno .
Unione
- PROPN 43: Quando l’ Unione Sovietica invase l’ Afghanistan ?
- NOUN 29: 939 . Unione e commistione .
europea
- ADJ 54: Quando Weimar sarà Capitale europea di la cultura ?
- PROPN 5: L’ Unione europea comincerà probabilmente a prendere le sue prime decisioni collettive mercoledì prossimo , quando si riunirà il suo Comitato politico .
Stato
- NOUN 117: 859 . Opere di competenza di lo Stato .
- PROPN 24: Allarme per la sicurezza di il capo di lo Stato .
a
- ADP 6766: Corriere Sport da pagina 23 a pagina 26
- NOUN 10: a ) il danno causato da la morte o da lesioni personali ,
- X 8: a ) trasporti ad hoc di merci pericolose ;
- PROPN 2: Luciano Ligabue ha fatto anche due film : Radiofreccia di il 1998 e Da zero a dieci di il 2002 .
- ADV 2: con la scusa che non c’ è il testo , si nega da un lato il diritto di il presidente di la commissione di rivolger si a questo parlamento , e da l’ altro che abbia luogo una discussione su la riforma , senza che il parlamento conosca a priori i testi su cui si basa .
Camera
- NOUN 32: La Camera di i deputati è eletta a suffragio universale e diretto .
- PROPN 23: Ciascuna Camera può disporre inchieste su materie di pubblico interesse .
nazioni
- NOUN 9: Quante nazioni partecipano a la Conferenza Mondiale su la Popolazione ?
- PROPN 1: A il Settebello l’ Otto nazioni di pallanuoto .
Broglio
- PROPN 20: L’ approvazione di il Governo permetteva a Broglio di negoziare con la NASA un accordo per definire i rispettivi contributi .
- NOUN 2: Broglio ottenne inoltre il trasferimento di la gestione di il progetto da il CNR a l’ Università di Roma facendo sì che lo stesso fosse completamente sotto il suo controllo .

Morphology

The form / lemma ratio of PROPN is 1.008200 (the average of all parts of speech is 1.488836).

The 1st highest number of forms (4) was observed with the lemma “il”: L’, il, la, le.

The 2nd highest number of forms (2) was observed with the lemma “Aids”: AIDS, Aids.

The 3rd highest number of forms (2) was observed with the lemma “As”: AS, As.

PROPN occurs with 4 features: it-feat/Gender (3; 0% instances), it-feat/Number (3; 0% instances), it-feat/NumType (2; 0% instances), it-feat/Degree (1; 0% instances)

PROPN occurs with 5 feature-value pairs: Degree=Abs, Gender=Fem, NumType=Card, Number=Plur, Number=Sing

PROPN occurs with 5 feature combinations. The most frequent feature combination is _ (14754 tokens). Examples: Italia, Shakespeare, Balzac, Europa, Roma, Stati, Uniti, San, Albania, Marco

Relations

PROPN nodes are attached to their parents using 18 different relations: it-dep/nmod (7117; 48% instances), it-dep/name (3512; 24% instances), it-dep/nsubj (2146; 15% instances), it-dep/conj (832; 6% instances), it-dep/dobj (393; 3% instances), it-dep/root (247; 2% instances), it-dep/appos (242; 2% instances), it-dep/nsubjpass (156; 1% instances), it-dep/xcomp (66; 0% instances), it-dep/parataxis (15; 0% instances), it-dep/vocative (13; 0% instances), it-dep/advcl (7; 0% instances), it-dep/ccomp (5; 0% instances), it-dep/acl:relcl (3; 0% instances), it-dep/case (2; 0% instances), it-dep/csubj (2; 0% instances), it-dep/compound (1; 0% instances), it-dep/foreign (1; 0% instances)

Parents of PROPN nodes belong to 17 different parts of speech: NOUN (5137; 35% instances), PROPN (4930; 33% instances), VERB (3934; 27% instances), PRON (253; 2% instances), ROOT (247; 2% instances), ADJ (193; 1% instances), NUM (18; 0% instances), ADV (17; 0% instances), X (6; 0% instances), AUX (5; 0% instances), INTJ (4; 0% instances), PUNCT (4; 0% instances), SYM (4; 0% instances), DET (3; 0% instances), ADP (2; 0% instances), CONJ (2; 0% instances), SCONJ (1; 0% instances)

5470 (37%) PROPN nodes are leaves.

4055 (27%) PROPN nodes have one child.

2697 (18%) PROPN nodes have two children.

2538 (17%) PROPN nodes have three or more children.

The highest child degree of a PROPN node is 38.

Children of PROPN nodes are attached using 30 different relations: it-dep/case (5625; 29% instances), it-dep/name (3575; 18% instances), it-dep/det (3196; 16% instances), it-dep/punct (2830; 14% instances), it-dep/nmod (1222; 6% instances), it-dep/conj (917; 5% instances), it-dep/cc (587; 3% instances), it-dep/amod (411; 2% instances), it-dep/appos (331; 2% instances), it-dep/acl:relcl (222; 1% instances), it-dep/nummod (173; 1% instances), it-dep/acl (166; 1% instances), it-dep/advmod (145; 1% instances), it-dep/cop (68; 0% instances), it-dep/nsubj (51; 0% instances), it-dep/parataxis (24; 0% instances), it-dep/advcl (18; 0% instances), it-dep/det:predet (16; 0% instances), it-dep/mark (10; 0% instances), it-dep/neg (10; 0% instances), it-dep/det:poss (9; 0% instances), it-dep/aux (8; 0% instances), it-dep/mwe (8; 0% instances), it-dep/ccomp (5; 0% instances), it-dep/discourse (3; 0% instances), it-dep/foreign (2; 0% instances), it-dep/vocative (2; 0% instances), it-dep/compound (1; 0% instances), it-dep/dobj (1; 0% instances), it-dep/xcomp (1; 0% instances)

Children of PROPN nodes belong to 17 different parts of speech: ADP (5573; 28% instances), PROPN (4930; 25% instances), DET (3224; 16% instances), PUNCT (2831; 14% instances), NOUN (1044; 5% instances), CONJ (585; 3% instances), VERB (468; 2% instances), ADJ (431; 2% instances), NUM (249; 1% instances), ADV (211; 1% instances), PRON (50; 0% instances), SCONJ (11; 0% instances), AUX (8; 0% instances), SYM (8; 0% instances), X (7; 0% instances), PART (4; 0% instances), INTJ (3; 0% instances)

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