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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 specific individual, place, or object and is usually written with an initial uppercase letter.

Examples

Conversion from JOS

All nouns with Type=proper are converted to NPROP.


Treebank Statistics (UD_Slovenian)

There are 2596 PROPN lemmas (15%), 3152 PROPN types (10%) and 4682 PROPN tokens (3%). Out of 16 observed tags, the rank of PROPN is: 3 in number of lemmas, 4 in number of types and 11 in number of tokens.

The 10 most frequent PROPN lemmas: Slovenija, Ljubljana, Maribor, EU, Evropa, Slovenec, Nemčija, Jugoslavija, Amerika, Janez

The 10 most frequent PROPN types: Slovenije, Sloveniji, Slovenija, EU, Ljubljani, ZDA, Slovenijo, Evropi, Mariboru, LJUBLJANA

The 10 most frequent ambiguous lemmas: HTML (NOUN 4, PROPN 1), VN (NOUN 1, PROPN 1)

The 10 most frequent ambiguous types: Ali (ADV 32, PROPN 7, CONJ 6), Dolenjske (PROPN 5, ADJ 1), Slovenskem (PROPN 5, ADJ 2), Gora (PROPN 4, NOUN 2), Koroško (PROPN 4, ADJ 1), Hrvaško (PROPN 3, ADJ 2), Koroška (PROPN 3, ADJ 1), Nato (ADV 13, PROPN 3), Bo (PROPN 2, AUX 1), Boja (PROPN 2, NOUN 1)

Morphology

The form / lemma ratio of PROPN is 1.214176 (the average of all parts of speech is 1.894262).

The 1st highest number of forms (5) was observed with the lemma “Francoz”: Francoz, Francoza, Francozi, Francozom, Francozov.

The 2nd highest number of forms (5) was observed with the lemma “Ljubljana”: LJUBLJANA, Ljubljana, Ljubljane, Ljubljani, Ljubljano.

The 3rd highest number of forms (5) was observed with the lemma “Maribor”: MARIBOR, Maribor, Maribora, Mariborom, Mariboru.

PROPN occurs with 4 features: Case (4682; 100% instances), Gender (4682; 100% instances), Number (4682; 100% instances), Animacy (262; 6% instances)

PROPN occurs with 14 feature-value pairs: Animacy=Anim, Animacy=Inan, Case=Acc, Case=Dat, Case=Gen, Case=Ins, Case=Loc, Case=Nom, Gender=Fem, Gender=Masc, Gender=Neut, Number=Dual, Number=Plur, Number=Sing

PROPN occurs with 32 feature combinations. The most frequent feature combination is Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing (1612 tokens). Examples: Maribor, New, Drnovšek, Janez, Jože, Gregor, Milan, Bojan, Matjaž, Bush

Relations

PROPN nodes are attached to their parents using 11 different relations: nmod (2299; 49% instances), nsubj (920; 20% instances), name (686; 15% instances), conj (361; 8% instances), dobj (187; 4% instances), parataxis (108; 2% instances), appos (53; 1% instances), iobj (33; 1% instances), root (21; 0% instances), xcomp (8; 0% instances), acl (6; 0% instances)

Parents of PROPN nodes belong to 9 different parts of speech: NOUN (1657; 35% instances), VERB (1559; 33% instances), PROPN (1258; 27% instances), ADJ (164; 4% instances), ROOT (21; 0% instances), ADV (7; 0% instances), PRON (7; 0% instances), X (7; 0% instances), NUM (2; 0% instances)

2389 (51%) PROPN nodes are leaves.

1579 (34%) PROPN nodes have one child.

470 (10%) PROPN nodes have two children.

244 (5%) PROPN nodes have three or more children.

The highest child degree of a PROPN node is 31.

Children of PROPN nodes are attached using 19 different relations: case (1015; 28% instances), name (692; 19% instances), punct (381; 10% instances), conj (380; 10% instances), nmod (342; 9% instances), amod (248; 7% instances), cc (213; 6% instances), acl (117; 3% instances), appos (89; 2% instances), nummod (47; 1% instances), advmod (28; 1% instances), cop (25; 1% instances), det (21; 1% instances), nsubj (16; 0% instances), aux (6; 0% instances), mark (6; 0% instances), parataxis (4; 0% instances), sl-dep/cc:preconj (3; 0% instances), discourse (1; 0% instances)

Children of PROPN nodes belong to 16 different parts of speech: PROPN (1258; 35% instances), ADP (1002; 28% instances), PUNCT (381; 10% instances), ADJ (261; 7% instances), CONJ (216; 6% instances), NOUN (213; 6% instances), VERB (127; 3% instances), NUM (47; 1% instances), X (42; 1% instances), DET (22; 1% instances), ADV (21; 1% instances), SCONJ (20; 1% instances), PRON (13; 0% instances), AUX (6; 0% instances), PART (4; 0% instances), INTJ (1; 0% instances)


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