The name relation is one of the three relations for compounding in UD (together
with compound and mwe).
It is used for proper nouns constituted of multiple nominal
elements. For example, name would be used between the words of
Hillary Rodham Clinton, New York, or Carl XVI Gustaf but not to
replace the usual relations in a phrasal or clausal name like The
king of Sweden or the novels The Lord of the Rings and Captured By
Aliens.
Words joined by name should all be part of a minimal noun phrase;
otherwise regular syntactic relations should be used. This is
basically similar to the treatment of noun compounds with
compound, except that in many cases parts of the name may be
another nominal element such as an adjective (United Airlines).
In general, names are annotated in a flat, head-initial structure, in
which all words in the name modify the first one using the name
label.
For names with a clear syntactic modification structure, the dependencies should instead reflect the syntactic modification structure using regular syntactic relations, as in:
158 nodes (0%) are attached to their parents as name.
158 instances of name (100%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child).
Average distance between parent and child is 1.08227848101266.
The following 3 pairs of parts of speech are connected with name: PROPN-PROPN (156; 99% instances), PROPN-ADJ (1; 1% instances), PROPN-PUNCT (1; 1% instances).