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name: name

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.

Carl XVI Gustav
name(Carl, XVI)
name(Carl, Gustav)
Frankfurt am Main
nmod(Frankfurt, Main)
case(Main, am)

Treebank Statistics (UD_German)

This relation is universal.

7413 nodes (2%) are attached to their parents as name.

7320 instances of name (99%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 1.54444894104951.

The following 8 pairs of parts of speech are connected with name: de-pos/PROPN-de-pos/PROPN (6302; 85% instances), de-pos/NOUN-de-pos/PROPN (1039; 14% instances), de-pos/ADJ-de-pos/PROPN (44; 1% instances), de-pos/NUM-de-pos/PROPN (13; 0% instances), de-pos/ADP-de-pos/PROPN (8; 0% instances), de-pos/VERB-de-pos/PROPN (5; 0% instances), de-pos/DET-de-pos/PROPN (1; 0% instances), de-pos/PRON-de-pos/PROPN (1; 0% instances).

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1	Hierfür	hierfür	ADV	PAV	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	verdient	verdienen	VERB	VVFIN	Number=Sing|Person=3|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Torsten	Torsten	PROPN	NE	_	4	name	_	_
4	Burrichter	Burrichter	PROPN	NE	Case=Nom|Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
5	meinen	mein	PRON	PPOSAT	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Number[psor]=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	det:poss	_	_
6	besonderen	besonder	ADJ	ADJA	Case=Acc|Degree=Pos|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	7	amod	_	_
7	Respekt	Respekt	NOUN	NN	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	2	dobj	_	_
8	.	.	PUNCT	$.	_	2	punct	_	_

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1	Bester	gut	ADJ	ADJA	Degree=Sup	2	amod	_	_
2	Friseur	Friseur	NOUN	NN	_	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	APPR	_	5	case	_	_
4	ganzen	ganz	ADJ	ADJA	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Landkreis	Landkreis	NOUN	NN	_	2	nmod	_	_
6	Rosenheim	Rosenheim	PROPN	NE	_	5	name	_	_
7	!	!	PUNCT	$.	_	2	punct	_	_

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1	The	The	PROPN	FM	_	2	nmod	_	_
2	Crystals	Crystals	PROPN	NN	Case=Nom|Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	war	sein	VERB	VAFIN	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
4	eine	ein	DET	ART	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
5	US	US	PROPN	NE	_	7	name	_	_
6	-	-	PUNCT	$(	_	7	punct	_	_
7	amerikanische	amerikanisch	ADJ	ADJA	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
8	Mädchen	Mädchen	NOUN	NN	_	10	compound	_	_
9	-	-	PUNCT	$(	_	10	punct	_	_
10	Gesangsgruppe	Gesangsgruppe	NOUN	NN	_	0	root	_	_
11	.	.	PUNCT	$.	_	10	punct	_	_


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