PROPN: proper noun
Definition
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.
The tagPROPN maps to the following tags in the BulTreeBank scheme: Np#, H#
The tag Np# refers to proper nouns, while the tag H# handles two cases: 1. family names, which are
mapped here as proper nouns, and 2. name adjectives, which are mapped to adjectives.
Examples
- Мария, Иван / Maria, Ivan “Mary, John”
- София, Холандия / Sofiya, Holandia “Sofia, Holland”
- Иванов, Петрова / Ivanov, Petrova as in господин Иванов, госпожа Петрова / gospodin Ivanov, gospozha Petrova_ “Mr. Ivanov, Ms. Petrova”
- Клинтън / “Klintan” “Clinton”
Note that the symbol `#’, used in the Universal POS section indicates a holder for arbitrary number of features, suppressed in the respective tag as irrelevant in the BulTreeBank tagset, when mapped to the Universal one.
Treebank Statistics (UD_Bulgarian)
There are 2784 PROPN lemmas (19%), 2853 PROPN types (11%) and 7630 PROPN tokens (5%).
Out of 16 observed tags, the rank of PROPN is: 3 in number of lemmas, 4 in number of types and 8 in number of tokens.
The 10 most frequent PROPN lemmas: българия, софия, иван, европа, ес, сдс, петър, стоянов, костов, георги
The 10 most frequent PROPN types: България, София, Иван, ЕС, Европа, СДС, Петър, Стоянов, Костов, Георги
The 10 most frequent ambiguous lemmas: балкан (PROPN 31, NOUN 1), дпс (PROPN 21, NOUN 2), новинар (PROPN 20, NOUN 1), конституция (PROPN 18, NOUN 15), дявол (PROPN 12, NOUN 4), клинтън (PROPN 12, NOUN 2), христов (PROPN 12, ADJ 1), коза (PROPN 10, NOUN 2), том (PROPN 10, NOUN 4), надежда (NOUN 12, PROPN 9)
The 10 most frequent ambiguous types: ДПС (PROPN 21, NOUN 2), Балканите (PROPN 20, NOUN 1), Новинар (PROPN 20, NOUN 1), Конституцията (PROPN 13, NOUN 2), Клинтън (PROPN 12, NOUN 2), ООН (PROPN 9, NOUN 1), АЕЦ (PROPN 8, NOUN 3), АФП (PROPN 8, NOUN 1), Би (PROPN 7, AUX 4), Подкрепа (PROPN 7, NOUN 1)
- ДПС
- Балканите
- Новинар
- Конституцията
- Клинтън
- ООН
- АЕЦ
- АФП
- Би
- Подкрепа
Morphology
The form / lemma ratio of PROPN is 1.024784 (the average of all parts of speech is 1.709615).
The 1st highest number of forms (5) was observed with the lemma “балкан”: Балкан, Балкана, Балкани, Балканите, Балканът.
The 2nd highest number of forms (4) was observed with the lemma “конституция”: КОНСТИТУЦИЯ, КОНСТИТУЦИЯТА, Конституция, Конституцията.
The 3rd highest number of forms (2) was observed with the lemma “александров”: АЛЕКСАНДРОВ, Александров.
PROPN occurs with 5 features: bg-feat/Number (7566; 99% instances), bg-feat/Definite (7561; 99% instances), bg-feat/Gender (7546; 99% instances), bg-feat/Degree (17; 0% instances), bg-feat/Case (5; 0% instances)
PROPN occurs with 11 feature-value pairs: Case=Acc, Case=Voc, Definite=Def, Definite=Ind, Degree=Pos, Gender=Fem, Gender=Masc, Gender=Neut, Number=Plur, Number=Ptan, Number=Sing
PROPN occurs with 22 feature combinations.
The most frequent feature combination is Definite=Ind|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing (4501 tokens).
Examples: Иван, Петър, ЕС, Стоянов, СДС, Костов, Георги, Йордан, Димитър, Николай
Relations
PROPN nodes are attached to their parents using 19 different relations: bg-dep/nmod (3234; 42% instances), bg-dep/flat (1484; 19% instances), bg-dep/nsubj (1262; 17% instances), bg-dep/conj (593; 8% instances), bg-dep/obl (387; 5% instances), bg-dep/iobj (216; 3% instances), bg-dep/root (198; 3% instances), bg-dep/obj (130; 2% instances), bg-dep/nsubj:pass (63; 1% instances), bg-dep/discourse (39; 1% instances), bg-dep/vocative (6; 0% instances), bg-dep/advcl (4; 0% instances), bg-dep/appos (4; 0% instances), bg-dep/acl (3; 0% instances), bg-dep/amod (2; 0% instances), bg-dep/ccomp (2; 0% instances), bg-dep/csubj (1; 0% instances), bg-dep/parataxis (1; 0% instances), bg-dep/xcomp (1; 0% instances)
Parents of PROPN nodes belong to 10 different parts of speech: NOUN (3077; 40% instances), PROPN (2348; 31% instances), VERB (1852; 24% instances), ROOT (198; 3% instances), ADJ (109; 1% instances), ADV (25; 0% instances), PRON (9; 0% instances), DET (7; 0% instances), NUM (4; 0% instances), X (1; 0% instances)
2925 (38%) PROPN nodes are leaves.
2922 (38%) PROPN nodes have one child.
969 (13%) PROPN nodes have two children.
814 (11%) PROPN nodes have three or more children.
The highest child degree of a PROPN node is 14.
Children of PROPN nodes are attached using 18 different relations: bg-dep/case (2300; 29% instances), bg-dep/punct (2152; 27% instances), bg-dep/flat (1494; 19% instances), bg-dep/conj (644; 8% instances), bg-dep/nmod (617; 8% instances), bg-dep/cc (314; 4% instances), bg-dep/amod (263; 3% instances), bg-dep/acl (56; 1% instances), bg-dep/nummod (38; 0% instances), bg-dep/cop (30; 0% instances), bg-dep/advmod (29; 0% instances), bg-dep/nsubj (25; 0% instances), bg-dep/discourse (23; 0% instances), bg-dep/det (14; 0% instances), bg-dep/aux (7; 0% instances), bg-dep/appos (6; 0% instances), bg-dep/mark (2; 0% instances), bg-dep/advcl (1; 0% instances)
Children of PROPN nodes belong to 15 different parts of speech: PROPN (2348; 29% instances), ADP (2300; 29% instances), PUNCT (2152; 27% instances), NOUN (426; 5% instances), CCONJ (315; 4% instances), ADJ (289; 4% instances), VERB (50; 1% instances), NUM (39; 0% instances), AUX (37; 0% instances), ADV (29; 0% instances), DET (14; 0% instances), PART (6; 0% instances), PRON (6; 0% instances), INTJ (2; 0% instances), SCONJ (2; 0% instances)
PROPN in other languages: [am] [ar] [bg] [bxr] [ca] [ckb] [cop] [cs] [cu] [da] [de] [el] [en] [es] [et] [eu] [fa] [fi] [fo] [fr] [ga] [gl] [got] [grc] [he] [hi] [hr] [hu] [id] [it] [ja] [kk] [kmr] [ko] [la] [lv] [mr] [nl] [no] [pl] [pt] [ro] [ru] [sa] [sk] [sla] [sl] [so] [sr] [sv] [swl] [ta] [tr] [ug] [uk] [u] [urj] [ur] [vi] [yue] [zh]