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PROPN: proper noun

Definition

A proper noun is a noun that is the name of a specific individual, place, or object. Note that names of days of week (e.g. 月曜, 日曜) are not considered proper nouns.

Multi-word named entities have internal syntactic structure, which is preserved in the annotation. The headword is usually noun or suffix and there may be other nouns involved. They will be tagged either PROPN or NOUN. For instance, An NE 長谷寺  “Hasedera temple”consists of a proper noun 長谷  “Hase”and an ordinary noun   “temple”.

Examples


Treebank Statistics (UD_Japanese-KTC)

There are 1631 PROPN lemmas (30%), 1 PROPN types (6%) and 7729 PROPN tokens (3%). Out of 16 observed tags, the rank of PROPN is: 2 in number of lemmas, 12 in number of types and 8 in number of tokens.

The 10 most frequent PROPN lemmas: _, トウキョウ, ロシア-Rossiya, ムラヤマ, オオサカ, アジア-Asia, ハンシン, ホンコン, チェチェン-Chechen, コウベ

The 10 most frequent PROPN types: _

The 10 most frequent ambiguous lemmas: _ (NOUN 73916, ADP 56601, PUNCT 29066, AUX 10360, SCONJ 9060, NUM 8667, VERB 8579, ADJ 3304, PART 2730, CONJ 2110, PROPN 1795, ADV 1655, SYM 1138, PRON 138, DET 95, INTJ 15), オオイタ (PROPN 10, ADV 1), カール-Karl (PROPN 2, NOUN 2), デン (NOUN 1, PROPN 1)

The 10 most frequent ambiguous types: _ (NOUN 83879, ADP 56602, AUX 29224, PUNCT 29066, VERB 24527, NUM 10685, SCONJ 9342, PROPN 7729, ADJ 4996, PART 2783, CONJ 2763, ADV 2738, SYM 1138, DET 1067, PRON 1065, INTJ 27)

Morphology

The form / lemma ratio of PROPN is 0.000613 (the average of all parts of speech is 0.002927).

The 1st highest number of forms (1) was observed with the lemma “_”: _.

The 2nd highest number of forms (1) was observed with the lemma “アイゼンハワー-Eisenhower”: _.

The 3rd highest number of forms (1) was observed with the lemma “アイチ”: _.

PROPN does not occur with any features.

Relations

PROPN nodes are attached to their parents using 15 different relations: ja-dep/compound (4226; 55% instances), ja-dep/nmod (1305; 17% instances), ja-dep/name (645; 8% instances), ja-dep/nsubj (508; 7% instances), ja-dep/conj (399; 5% instances), ja-dep/iobj (215; 3% instances), ja-dep/appos (157; 2% instances), ja-dep/dobj (118; 2% instances), ja-dep/dep (59; 1% instances), ja-dep/root (57; 1% instances), ja-dep/acl (12; 0% instances), ja-dep/advcl (10; 0% instances), ja-dep/nsubjpass (9; 0% instances), ja-dep/case (8; 0% instances), ja-dep/ccomp (1; 0% instances)

Parents of PROPN nodes belong to 8 different parts of speech: NOUN (5353; 69% instances), PROPN (1056; 14% instances), VERB (1037; 13% instances), CONJ (140; 2% instances), ROOT (57; 1% instances), ADJ (48; 1% instances), NUM (34; 0% instances), ADV (4; 0% instances)

4419 (57%) PROPN nodes are leaves.

2094 (27%) PROPN nodes have one child.

719 (9%) PROPN nodes have two children.

497 (6%) PROPN nodes have three or more children.

The highest child degree of a PROPN node is 13.

Children of PROPN nodes are attached using 21 different relations: ja-dep/case (2484; 45% instances), ja-dep/punct (925; 17% instances), ja-dep/name (645; 12% instances), ja-dep/compound (459; 8% instances), ja-dep/conj (356; 6% instances), ja-dep/nmod (204; 4% instances), ja-dep/acl (190; 3% instances), ja-dep/appos (99; 2% instances), ja-dep/dep (56; 1% instances), ja-dep/cop (31; 1% instances), ja-dep/cc (23; 0% instances), ja-dep/nsubj (23; 0% instances), ja-dep/csubj (13; 0% instances), ja-dep/aux (11; 0% instances), ja-dep/amod (9; 0% instances), ja-dep/mark (8; 0% instances), ja-dep/det (6; 0% instances), ja-dep/advmod (4; 0% instances), ja-dep/iobj (4; 0% instances), ja-dep/neg (2; 0% instances), ja-dep/nummod (1; 0% instances)

Children of PROPN nodes belong to 15 different parts of speech: ADP (2424; 44% instances), PROPN (1056; 19% instances), NOUN (757; 14% instances), PUNCT (585; 11% instances), SYM (340; 6% instances), VERB (193; 3% instances), PART (69; 1% instances), AUX (57; 1% instances), CONJ (24; 0% instances), ADJ (20; 0% instances), NUM (8; 0% instances), SCONJ (8; 0% instances), DET (6; 0% instances), ADV (4; 0% instances), PRON (2; 0% instances)


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