PROPN

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`PROPN`: proper noun

Definition

A proper noun is a noun (or nominal content word) that is the name (or part of the name) of a specific individual, place, or object.

In Norwegian, proper nouns do usually not inflect for morphological properties like gender, number, etc. Proper nouns are furthermore written with a capital letter.

Examples

Kari, Ola
Oslo, Bergen

Treebank Statistics (UD_Norwegian)

There are 4640 PROPN lemmas (19%), 5008 PROPN types (15%) and 18260 PROPN tokens (6%). Out of 17 observed tags, the rank of PROPN is: 2 in number of lemmas, 2 in number of types and 7 in number of tokens.

The 10 most frequent PROPN lemmas: Norge, Regjeringen, Obama, USA, Oslo, Jan, Cathrine, Stortinget, Svalbard, Den

The 10 most frequent PROPN types: Norge, Obama, Regjeringen, Jan, Oslo, USA, Den, Svalbard, Mayen, Stortinget

The 10 most frequent ambiguous lemmas: Oslo (PROPN 153, X 2), Den (PROPN 116, X 1, DET 1), The (PROPN 53, X 1), Fashanu (PROPN 44, X 2), Det (PROPN 27, X 3), Annan (PROPN 25, X 1), norsk (ADJ 498, NOUN 18, PROPN 1), de (PRON 1636, DET 1349, PROPN 11, X 6, ADV 1), Haram (PROPN 16, X 1), ©NTB (PROPN 14, X 1)

The 10 most frequent ambiguous types: Regjeringen (PROPN 168, NOUN 38), Oslo (PROPN 147, X 2), Den (DET 222, PROPN 116, PRON 82, X 1), The (PROPN 53, X 1), Regjeringens (PROPN 44, NOUN 5), Fashanu (PROPN 36, X 2), Arbeiderpartiet (PROPN 34, NOUN 1), Mitt (PROPN 28, DET 9), Det (PRON 1652, DET 159, PROPN 27, X 3), Annan (PROPN 25, X 1)

Regjeringen
- PROPN 168: Regjeringen kan også smuldre opp innenfra .
- NOUN 38: Regjeringen har fastslått at røyking er farlig .
Oslo
- PROPN 147: Det var til og med langt fra Oslo .
- X 2: I love Oslo .
Den
- DET 222: Den albanske ambassador Aleksander Sallabanda fulgte opp
- PROPN 116: Og hun var medlem av Den Norske Nobelkomite i tolv år .
- PRON 82: Den som hun tok av seg da vi kom hjem .
- X 1: « Den underbara doften av sportaffär och syntet . »
The
- PROPN 53: Låten heter « The spirit carries on » .
- X 1: « The uniform says a lot about you , it can say that you’ve made it , or that you’re on your way . But where you end up is entirely up to you » .
Regjeringens
- PROPN 44: Bjarne Håkon Hanssen er en av Regjeringens største politiske begavelser .
- NOUN 5: Regjeringens skolereform Kunnskapsløftet skal gjennomføres fra 2006 .
Fashanu
- PROPN 36: På nettet lever Justin Fashanu videre .
- X 2: Ipswich-fansen , rivalene til Fashanus gamle klubb Norwich , synger den lite hyggelige supportersangen « He’s gay , he’s dead , he’s hanging in the shed , Fashanu , Fashanu » .
Arbeiderpartiet
- PROPN 34: Arbeiderpartiet har gått fra 200000 medlemmer etter krigen til 51000 i dag .
- NOUN 1: Arbeiderpartiet har vært på offensiven på de fleste målinger etter terrorangrepet 22. juli .
Mitt
- PROPN 28: Barack Obama leder med drøyt 50.000 flere enn Mitt Romney .
- DET 9: - Mitt utgangspunkt er at vi skal jobbe med sikte på å bli bedre .
Det
- PRON 1652: Det ble rene ord :
- DET 159: Det beste , de viktigste lærdommene , lærer vi ikke noe av .
- PROPN 27: Det store vi er i dag lite kjent utenfor pressens vegger .
- X 3: « Det breinn !
Annan
- PROPN 25: Helt siden han tiltrådte , har Kofi Annan talt de fattiges sak .
- X 1: - President Annan of the world , erklærte Jean til klampetrapp .

Morphology

The form / lemma ratio of PROPN is 1.079310 (the average of all parts of speech is 1.382778).

The 1st highest number of forms (3) was observed with the lemma “Demokratene”: Demokratene, demokratenes, demokretane.

The 2nd highest number of forms (3) was observed with the lemma “EU”: EU, EU’s, EUs.

The 3rd highest number of forms (3) was observed with the lemma “FN”: FN, FN’s, FNs.

PROPN occurs with 2 features: Gender (2689; 15% instances), Case (1214; 7% instances)

PROPN occurs with 4 feature-value pairs: Case=Gen, Gender=Fem, Gender=Masc, Gender=Neut

PROPN occurs with 8 feature combinations. The most frequent feature combination is _ (14461 tokens). Examples: Norge, Obama, Regjeringen, Oslo, USA, Den, Svalbard, Mayen, Cathrine, Bertelsen

Relations

PROPN nodes are attached to their parents using 21 different relations: nmod (5183; 28% instances), nsubj (4683; 26% instances), name (4215; 23% instances), det (1235; 7% instances), conj (1152; 6% instances), dobj (570; 3% instances), root (520; 3% instances), nsubjpass (188; 1% instances), parataxis (120; 1% instances), appos (115; 1% instances), compound (110; 1% instances), xcomp (57; 0% instances), iobj (48; 0% instances), remnant (32; 0% instances), advcl (10; 0% instances), acl (6; 0% instances), acl:relcl (5; 0% instances), ccomp (5; 0% instances), foreign (3; 0% instances), csubj (2; 0% instances), goeswith (1; 0% instances)

Parents of PROPN nodes belong to 13 different parts of speech: VERB (6878; 38% instances), PROPN (5865; 32% instances), NOUN (4192; 23% instances), ROOT (520; 3% instances), ADJ (477; 3% instances), DET (77; 0% instances), PRON (75; 0% instances), ADV (65; 0% instances), NUM (49; 0% instances), ADP (45; 0% instances), INTJ (8; 0% instances), X (5; 0% instances), SYM (4; 0% instances)

8985 (49%) PROPN nodes are leaves.

4328 (24%) PROPN nodes have one child.

2266 (12%) PROPN nodes have two children.

2681 (15%) PROPN nodes have three or more children.

The highest child degree of a PROPN node is 20.

Children of PROPN nodes are attached using 28 different relations: case (5271; 27% instances), name (5236; 26% instances), punct (2763; 14% instances), nmod (2407; 12% instances), conj (1234; 6% instances), cc (947; 5% instances), acl:relcl (314; 2% instances), advmod (259; 1% instances), appos (254; 1% instances), det (254; 1% instances), amod (232; 1% instances), cop (161; 1% instances), acl (111; 1% instances), nsubj (98; 0% instances), expl (59; 0% instances), mark (50; 0% instances), xcomp (35; 0% instances), parataxis (30; 0% instances), compound (29; 0% instances), advcl (25; 0% instances), nummod (22; 0% instances), neg (19; 0% instances), aux (10; 0% instances), csubj (2; 0% instances), remnant (2; 0% instances), discourse (1; 0% instances), dobj (1; 0% instances), goeswith (1; 0% instances)

Children of PROPN nodes belong to 17 different parts of speech: PROPN (5865; 30% instances), ADP (5399; 27% instances), PUNCT (2763; 14% instances), NOUN (2728; 14% instances), CONJ (990; 5% instances), ADJ (527; 3% instances), VERB (515; 3% instances), NUM (255; 1% instances), ADV (229; 1% instances), DET (214; 1% instances), X (156; 1% instances), PRON (128; 1% instances), SYM (26; 0% instances), SCONJ (16; 0% instances), AUX (10; 0% instances), PART (5; 0% instances), INTJ (1; 0% instances)