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PROPN: proper noun

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.

Acronyms of proper nouns, such as EU and YK, should be tagged PROPN.

Examples

References


Treebank Statistics (UD_Finnish)

There are 4332 PROPN lemmas (17%), 5548 PROPN types (11%) and 10997 PROPN tokens (6%). Out of 15 observed tags, the rank of PROPN is: 2 in number of lemmas, 4 in number of types and 7 in number of tokens.

The 10 most frequent PROPN lemmas: Eurooppa, Suomi, Turku, EU, Helsinki, Yhdysvallat, the, Venäjä, Mithridates, Kiina

The 10 most frequent PROPN types: euroopan, Turun, suomen, EU:n, Suomessa, the, Helsingin, Mithridates, Yhdysvaltain, Kiinan

The 10 most frequent ambiguous lemmas: Turku (PROPN 206, ADJ 2), Helsinki (PROPN 110, ADJ 2), Turkki (PROPN 23, ADJ 1), Japani (PROPN 21, ADJ 3), Tampere (PROPN 20, ADJ 1), Oulu (PROPN 19, ADJ 2), Tukholma (PROPN 19, ADJ 3), KTM (PROPN 17, NOUN 1), Iberia (PROPN 16, ADJ 2), Kappadokia (PROPN 13, ADJ 1)

The 10 most frequent ambiguous types: suomen (NOUN 6, PROPN 2), Ranskan (PROPN 21, NOUN 1), KTM (PROPN 12, NOUN 1), Te (PROPN 10, PRON 1), and (PROPN 10, X 3), in (PROPN 6, X 1), on (VERB 2269, AUX 1173, PROPN 4, ADV 1), a (NOUN 30, X 3, PROPN 1), Englannin (PROPN 7, ADJ 1), Kai (PROPN 7, ADV 4)

Morphology

The form / lemma ratio of PROPN is 1.280702 (the average of all parts of speech is 2.036755).

The 1st highest number of forms (12) was observed with the lemma “Suomi”: SUOMI, Suomassa, Suomeen, Suomelle, Suomenkaan, Suomessa, Suomessakin, Suomesta, Suomi, Suomikin, suomea, suomen.

The 2nd highest number of forms (9) was observed with the lemma “Eurooppa”: Euroopalle, Euroopan-, Euroopassa, Euroopasta, Eurooppa, Eurooppaa, Eurooppaan, Eurooppamme, euroopan.

The 3rd highest number of forms (8) was observed with the lemma “Kreikka”: Kreikalle, Kreikalta, Kreikan, Kreikassa, Kreikasta, Kreikka, Kreikkaa, Kreikkaan.

PROPN occurs with 9 features: fi-feat/Number (9550; 87% instances), fi-feat/Case (9548; 87% instances), fi-feat/Abbr (256; 2% instances), fi-feat/Typo (30; 0% instances), fi-feat/Clitic (22; 0% instances), fi-feat/Person[psor] (8; 0% instances), fi-feat/Style (6; 0% instances), fi-feat/Number[psor] (5; 0% instances), fi-feat/Degree (1; 0% instances)

PROPN occurs with 28 feature-value pairs: Abbr=Yes, Case=Abl, Case=Ade, Case=All, Case=Com, Case=Ela, Case=Ess, Case=Gen, Case=Ill, Case=Ine, Case=Ins, Case=Nom, Case=Par, Case=Tra, Clitic=Han, Clitic=Kaan, Clitic=Kin, Clitic=Ko, Degree=Pos, Number=Plur, Number=Sing, Number[psor]=Plur, Number[psor]=Sing, Person[psor]=1, Person[psor]=2, Person[psor]=3, Style=Coll, Typo=Yes

PROPN occurs with 65 feature combinations. The most frequent feature combination is Case=Nom|Number=Sing (4098 tokens). Examples: Mithridates, Eurooppa, Kaijasilta, Mårten, Pekka, Suomi, Simonides, Theron, Juho, Turku

Relations

PROPN nodes are attached to their parents using 23 different relations: fi-dep/nmod:poss (2619; 24% instances), fi-dep/name (2283; 21% instances), fi-dep/nsubj (1884; 17% instances), fi-dep/nmod (1622; 15% instances), fi-dep/conj (901; 8% instances), fi-dep/appos (447; 4% instances), fi-dep/dobj (324; 3% instances), fi-dep/nsubj:cop (294; 3% instances), fi-dep/compound:nn (195; 2% instances), fi-dep/root (166; 2% instances), fi-dep/nmod:gsubj (87; 1% instances), fi-dep/nmod:gobj (50; 0% instances), fi-dep/remnant (36; 0% instances), fi-dep/nmod:own (22; 0% instances), fi-dep/vocative (22; 0% instances), fi-dep/advcl (18; 0% instances), fi-dep/acl:relcl (8; 0% instances), fi-dep/parataxis (6; 0% instances), fi-dep/xcomp:ds (6; 0% instances), fi-dep/amod (4; 0% instances), fi-dep/ccomp (1; 0% instances), fi-dep/goeswith (1; 0% instances), fi-dep/nummod (1; 0% instances)

Parents of PROPN nodes belong to 13 different parts of speech: NOUN (3747; 34% instances), VERB (3406; 31% instances), PROPN (3363; 31% instances), ADJ (203; 2% instances), ROOT (166; 2% instances), ADV (35; 0% instances), PRON (32; 0% instances), NUM (22; 0% instances), X (10; 0% instances), PUNCT (5; 0% instances), ADP (4; 0% instances), SYM (3; 0% instances), CONJ (1; 0% instances)

7591 (69%) PROPN nodes are leaves.

1468 (13%) PROPN nodes have one child.

1064 (10%) PROPN nodes have two children.

874 (8%) PROPN nodes have three or more children.

The highest child degree of a PROPN node is 41.

Children of PROPN nodes are attached using 27 different relations: fi-dep/name (2402; 32% instances), fi-dep/punct (1030; 14% instances), fi-dep/conj (941; 12% instances), fi-dep/compound:nn (679; 9% instances), fi-dep/cc (596; 8% instances), fi-dep/case (279; 4% instances), fi-dep/nmod (243; 3% instances), fi-dep/advmod (240; 3% instances), fi-dep/appos (206; 3% instances), fi-dep/acl (171; 2% instances), fi-dep/amod (167; 2% instances), fi-dep/nmod:poss (149; 2% instances), fi-dep/acl:relcl (106; 1% instances), fi-dep/nsubj:cop (81; 1% instances), fi-dep/cop (80; 1% instances), fi-dep/parataxis (43; 1% instances), fi-dep/remnant (35; 0% instances), fi-dep/nummod (33; 0% instances), fi-dep/det (29; 0% instances), fi-dep/mark (17; 0% instances), fi-dep/cc:preconj (16; 0% instances), fi-dep/advcl (5; 0% instances), fi-dep/dobj (5; 0% instances), fi-dep/neg (4; 0% instances), fi-dep/discourse (3; 0% instances), fi-dep/vocative (3; 0% instances), fi-dep/goeswith (1; 0% instances)

Children of PROPN nodes belong to 14 different parts of speech: PROPN (3363; 44% instances), NOUN (1110; 15% instances), PUNCT (1061; 14% instances), CONJ (601; 8% instances), VERB (388; 5% instances), ADP (274; 4% instances), ADV (250; 3% instances), ADJ (246; 3% instances), NUM (145; 2% instances), PRON (57; 1% instances), SYM (26; 0% instances), X (24; 0% instances), SCONJ (18; 0% instances), INTJ (1; 0% instances)


Treebank Statistics (UD_Finnish-FTB)

There are 3017 PROPN lemmas (14%), 3914 PROPN types (9%) and 6207 PROPN tokens (4%). Out of 14 observed tags, the rank of PROPN is: 2 in number of lemmas, 4 in number of types and 7 in number of tokens.

The 10 most frequent PROPN lemmas: suomi, helsinki, ruotsi, tampere, maija, eurooppa, mikko, venäjä, ranska, anna

The 10 most frequent PROPN types: Suomen, suomessa, Suomi, Maija, Mikko, Helsingin, Anna, Euroopan, Helsingissä, Suomeen

The 10 most frequent ambiguous lemmas: suomi (PROPN 331, NOUN 27), ruotsi (PROPN 61, NOUN 4), venäjä (PROPN 39, NOUN 2), ranska (PROPN 36, NOUN 12), saksa (PROPN 26, NOUN 9), matti (PROPN 21, NOUN 2), turku (PROPN 18, NOUN 1), englanti (PROPN 16, NOUN 9), norja (PROPN 16, ADJ 1), viro (PROPN 16, NOUN 1)

The 10 most frequent ambiguous types: Suomen (PROPN 125, NOUN 2), Anna (PROPN 28, VERB 10), Lahden (PROPN 4, NOUN 1), Nato (PROPN 4, NOUN 1), Hirvi (PROPN 2, NOUN 1), Huurre (PROPN 2, NOUN 1), Johan (ADV 3, PROPN 2), Maan (PROPN 2, NOUN 1), Sain (VERB 15, PROPN 2), Alan (NOUN 1, PROPN 1)

Morphology

The form / lemma ratio of PROPN is 1.297315 (the average of all parts of speech is 2.041153).

The 1st highest number of forms (14) was observed with the lemma “suomi”: Suomea, Suomeen, Suomella, Suomelle, Suomen, Suomenkin, Suomessakin, Suomessako, Suomesta, Suomestakin, Suomet, Suomi, Suomikin, suomessa.

The 2nd highest number of forms (9) was observed with the lemma “ruotsi”: Ruatsin, Ruatsis, Ruotsi, Ruotsia, Ruotsiin, Ruotsilla, Ruotsin, Ruotsissa, Ruotsista.

The 3rd highest number of forms (8) was observed with the lemma “tampere”: Tampere, Tampereella, Tampereelle, Tampereelta, Tampereen, Tampereeseen, Tampereesta, Tamperetta.

PROPN occurs with 5 features: fi-feat/Case (6207; 100% instances), fi-feat/Number (6207; 100% instances), fi-feat/Clitic (57; 1% instances), fi-feat/Person[psor] (10; 0% instances), fi-feat/Number[psor] (5; 0% instances)

PROPN occurs with 22 feature-value pairs: Case=Abl, Case=Ade, Case=All, Case=Ela, Case=Ess, Case=Gen, Case=Ill, Case=Ine, Case=Nom, Case=Par, Case=Tra, Clitic=Han, Clitic=Kaan, Clitic=Kin, Clitic=Ko, Number=Plur, Number=Sing, Number[psor]=Plur, Number[psor]=Sing, Person[psor]=1, Person[psor]=2, Person[psor]=3

PROPN occurs with 51 feature combinations. The most frequent feature combination is Case=Nom|Number=Sing (2676 tokens). Examples: Suomi, Maija, Mikko, Anna, Lasse, Pekka, Matti, Antti, Jussi, Liisa

Relations

PROPN nodes are attached to their parents using 11 different relations: fi-dep/nmod (3325; 54% instances), fi-dep/nsubj (1893; 30% instances), fi-dep/conj (388; 6% instances), fi-dep/dobj (317; 5% instances), fi-dep/root (171; 3% instances), fi-dep/vocative (63; 1% instances), fi-dep/advcl:compar (40; 1% instances), fi-dep/advcl (4; 0% instances), fi-dep/ccomp (3; 0% instances), fi-dep/acl (2; 0% instances), fi-dep/csubj (1; 0% instances)

Parents of PROPN nodes belong to 11 different parts of speech: VERB (3122; 50% instances), NOUN (1748; 28% instances), PROPN (864; 14% instances), ADJ (190; 3% instances), ROOT (171; 3% instances), PRON (47; 1% instances), ADV (36; 1% instances), NUM (13; 0% instances), X (8; 0% instances), DET (6; 0% instances), INTJ (2; 0% instances)

4056 (65%) PROPN nodes are leaves.

1220 (20%) PROPN nodes have one child.

598 (10%) PROPN nodes have two children.

333 (5%) PROPN nodes have three or more children.

The highest child degree of a PROPN node is 10.

Children of PROPN nodes are attached using 20 different relations: fi-dep/nmod (993; 27% instances), fi-dep/punct (925; 25% instances), fi-dep/conj (437; 12% instances), fi-dep/cc (330; 9% instances), fi-dep/case (227; 6% instances), fi-dep/amod (200; 5% instances), fi-dep/advmod (146; 4% instances), fi-dep/det (89; 2% instances), fi-dep/acl (63; 2% instances), fi-dep/cop (63; 2% instances), fi-dep/nsubj (55; 2% instances), fi-dep/dep (49; 1% instances), fi-dep/mark:comparator (36; 1% instances), fi-dep/nummod (20; 1% instances), fi-dep/mark (12; 0% instances), fi-dep/aux (6; 0% instances), fi-dep/neg (5; 0% instances), fi-dep/ccomp (2; 0% instances), fi-dep/advcl (1; 0% instances), fi-dep/csubj (1; 0% instances)

Children of PROPN nodes belong to 14 different parts of speech: PUNCT (925; 25% instances), PROPN (864; 24% instances), NOUN (538; 15% instances), CONJ (331; 9% instances), ADP (227; 6% instances), VERB (216; 6% instances), ADV (180; 5% instances), ADJ (141; 4% instances), DET (89; 2% instances), PRON (61; 2% instances), SCONJ (48; 1% instances), NUM (21; 1% instances), X (17; 0% instances), INTJ (2; 0% instances)


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