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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 Belgium 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 head using the name label.

Cervélo Test Team
name(Team, Cervélo)
name(Team, Test)

For names with a clear syntactic modification structure, the dependencies should instead reflect the syntactic modification structure using regular syntactic relations, as in:

<< La Belle et la Bête >> \n The Beauty and the Beast
conj(Belle, Bête)
cc(Belle, et)
det(Belle, La)
det(Bête, la)

Treebank Statistics (UD_French)

This relation is universal.

6769 nodes (2%) are attached to their parents as name.

6769 instances of name (100%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 1.25897473777515.

The following 31 pairs of parts of speech are connected with name: fr-pos/PROPN-fr-pos/PROPN (6390; 94% instances), fr-pos/NOUN-fr-pos/PROPN (160; 2% instances), fr-pos/PROPN-fr-pos/NOUN (53; 1% instances), fr-pos/PROPN-fr-pos/X (46; 1% instances), fr-pos/PROPN-fr-pos/ADP (33; 0% instances), fr-pos/NOUN-fr-pos/NOUN (15; 0% instances), fr-pos/PROPN-fr-pos/SYM (11; 0% instances), fr-pos/PROPN-fr-pos/NUM (10; 0% instances), fr-pos/PROPN-fr-pos/ADJ (5; 0% instances), fr-pos/PROPN-fr-pos/DET (5; 0% instances), fr-pos/ADJ-fr-pos/NOUN (4; 0% instances), fr-pos/ADJ-fr-pos/PROPN (4; 0% instances), fr-pos/X-fr-pos/X (4; 0% instances), fr-pos/ADP-fr-pos/PROPN (3; 0% instances), fr-pos/NOUN-fr-pos/ADJ (3; 0% instances), fr-pos/NOUN-fr-pos/X (3; 0% instances), fr-pos/PROPN-fr-pos/CONJ (3; 0% instances), fr-pos/ADV-fr-pos/NOUN (2; 0% instances), fr-pos/PROPN-fr-pos/PART (2; 0% instances), fr-pos/SYM-fr-pos/PROPN (2; 0% instances), fr-pos/ADJ-fr-pos/NUM (1; 0% instances), fr-pos/ADJ-fr-pos/SYM (1; 0% instances), fr-pos/ADV-fr-pos/VERB (1; 0% instances), fr-pos/NOUN-fr-pos/ADP (1; 0% instances), fr-pos/NOUN-fr-pos/CONJ (1; 0% instances), fr-pos/NOUN-fr-pos/DET (1; 0% instances), fr-pos/PUNCT-fr-pos/PROPN (1; 0% instances), fr-pos/VERB-fr-pos/PART (1; 0% instances), fr-pos/VERB-fr-pos/PROPN (1; 0% instances), fr-pos/VERB-fr-pos/VERB (1; 0% instances), fr-pos/X-fr-pos/PROPN (1; 0% instances).

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1	L'	le	DET	_	Definite=Def|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	éditeur-en-chef	éditeur-en-chef	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	est	être	VERB	_	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	Corey	Corey	PROPN	_	_	0	root	_	_
5	S.	S.	PROPN	_	_	4	name	_	_
6	Powell	Powell	PROPN	_	_	4	name	_	_
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	_	4	punct	_	_

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1	Une	un	DET	_	Definite=Ind|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	bonne	bon	ADJ	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	3	amod	_	_
3	raison	raison	NOUN	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	pour	pour	ADP	_	_	5	mark	_	_
5	faire	faire	VERB	_	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
6	un	un	DET	_	Definite=Ind|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	détour	détour	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	5	dobj	_	_
8	à	à	ADP	_	_	9	case	_	_
9	saint	saint	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	Jean	Jean	PROPN	_	_	9	name	_	_
11	de	de	ADP	_	_	9	name	_	_
12	Maurienne	Maurienne	PROPN	_	_	9	name	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	_	3	punct	_	_

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1	Un	un	DET	_	Definite=Ind|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	champ	champ	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	porte	porter	VERB	_	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	le	le	DET	_	Definite=Def|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	nom	nom	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	3	dobj	_	_
6	de	de	ADP	_	_	9	case	_	_
7	Gueredic	Gueredic	PROPN	_	_	5	nmod	_	_
8	saint	saint	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	7	name	_	_
9	Hervé	Hervé	PROPN	_	_	7	name	_	_
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	_	3	punct	_	_


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