PROPN

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`PROPN`: proper noun

Definition

A proper noun is a noun referring to a (more or less) unique object, such as a person or a country.

Examples

Ἀθῆναι “Athens”
Δημοσθένης “Demosthenes”

Treebank Statistics (UD_Ancient_Greek-PROIEL)

There are 1374 PROPN lemmas (15%), 2367 PROPN types (8%) and 8212 PROPN tokens (4%). Out of 14 observed tags, the rank of PROPN is: 4 in number of lemmas, 4 in number of types and 9 in number of tokens.

The 10 most frequent PROPN lemmas: Ἰησοῦς, Χριστός, Κροῖσος, Παῦλος, Πέτρος, Ξέρξης, Ἰωάν(ν)ης, Ἱεροσόλυμα, Δαρεῖος, Κῦρος

The 10 most frequent PROPN types: Ἰησοῦς, Ἰησοῦ, Χριστοῦ, Ἰησοῦν, Χριστῷ, Πέτρος, Ξέρξης, Παῦλος, Χριστὸς, Κροῖσος

The 10 most frequent ambiguous lemmas: Χριστός (PROPN 485, NOUN 1), Παῦλος (PROPN 154, NOUN 3), Πέτρος (PROPN 143, NOUN 5), Ἀσία (PROPN 77, NOUN 1), Ἑλλάς (PROPN 76, ADJ 6), Μωϋσῆς (PROPN 65, NOUN 2), Δελφοί (PROPN 60, NOUN 13), Σατανᾶς (PROPN 33, NOUN 1), Πεισίστρατος (PROPN 30, NOUN 1), Βαβυλών (PROPN 25, NOUN 1)

The 10 most frequent ambiguous types: Χριστοῦ (PROPN 222, NOUN 1), Πέτρος (PROPN 91, NOUN 5), Παῦλος (PROPN 75, NOUN 3), Ἑλλάδα (PROPN 47, ADJ 4), Μωϋσῆς (PROPN 34, NOUN 1), Ἰουδαίας (PROPN 23, ADJ 1), Μωϋσέως (PROPN 20, NOUN 1), Τιμόθεος (PROPN 10, NOUN 2), Πεισίστρατος (PROPN 9, NOUN 1), Ἰουδαίᾳ (PROPN 9, ADJ 1)

Χριστοῦ
- PROPN 222: προσέταξεν δὲ αὐτοῖς ἐν τῷ ὀνόματι Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ βαπτισθῆναι
- NOUN 1: Διὸ ἀφέντες τὸν τῆς ἀρχῆς τοῦ Χριστοῦ λόγον ἐπὶ τὴν τελειότητα φερώμεθα μὴ πάλιν θεμέλιον καταβαλλόμενοι μετανοίας ἀπὸ νεκρῶν ἔργων καὶ πίστεως ἐπὶ θεόν βαπτισμῶν διδαχῆς ἐπιθέσεώς τε χειρῶν ἀναστάσεώς τε νεκρῶν καὶ κρίματος αἰωνίου
Πέτρος
- PROPN 91: ἰδὼν δὲ Σίμων Πέτρος προσέπεσεν τοῖς γόνασιν Ἰησοῦ λέγων
- NOUN 5: Καὶ ἐν ταῖς ἡμέραις ταύταις ἀναστὰς Πέτρος ἐν μέσῳ τῶν ἀδελφῶν εἶπεν
Παῦλος
- PROPN 75: Σαῦλος δέ ὁ καὶ Παῦλος πλησθεὶς πνεύματος ἁγίου ἀτενίσας εἰς αὐτὸν εἶπεν
- NOUN 3: ἐγὼ Παῦλος ἔγραψα τῇ ἐμῇ χειρί
Ἑλλάδα
- PROPN 47: τούτους μὲν δὴ ἐς τὴν Ἑλλάδα ἔπεμπε
- ADJ 4: δύναται δὲ κατὰ Ἑλλάδα γλῶσσαν ταῦτα τὰ οὐνόματα Δαρεῖος ἐρξίης Ξέρξης ἀρήιος Ἀρτοξέρξης μέγας ἀρήιος
Μωϋσῆς
- PROPN 34: ἔστιν ὁ κατηγορῶν ὑμῶν Μωϋσῆς εἰς ὃν ὑμεῖς ἠλπίκατε
- NOUN 1: Μωϋσῆς μὲν εἶπεν ὅτι
Ἰουδαίας
- PROPN 23: ἐν Βηθλέεμ τῆς Ἰουδαίας
- ADJ 1: καὶ ἰδοὺ μαθητής τις ἦν ἐκεῖ ὀνόματι Τιμόθεος υἱὸς γυναικὸς Ἰουδαίας πιστῆς πατρὸς δὲ Ἕλληνος ὃς ἐμαρτυρεῖτο ὑπὸ τῶν ἐν Λύστροις καὶ Ἰκονίῳ ἀδελφῶν
Μωϋσέως
- PROPN 20: ἐπὶ τῆς Μωϋσέως καθέδρας ἐκάθισαν οἱ γραμματεῖς καὶ οἱ Φαρισαῖοι
- NOUN 1: ὁ Μωϋσῆς δέδωκεν ὑμῖν τὴν περιτομήν οὐχ ὅτι ἐκ τοῦ Μωϋσέως ἐστίν ἀλλ’ ἐκ τῶν πατέρων καὶ ἐν σαββάτῳ περιτέμνετε ἄνθρωπον
Τιμόθεος
- PROPN 10: ὑπέμεινάν τε ὅ τε Σιλᾶς καὶ ὁ Τιμόθεος ἐκεῖ
- NOUN 2: Ἀσπάζεται ὑμᾶς Τιμόθεος ὁ συνεργός μου καὶ Λούκιος καὶ Ἰάσων καὶ Σωσίπατρος οἱ συγγενεῖς μου
Πεισίστρατος
- PROPN 9: καὶ Πεισίστρατος μὲν ἐτυράννευε Ἀθηνέων
- NOUN 1: οὕτω μὲν Πεισίστρατος ἔσχε τὸ πρῶτον Ἀθήνας καὶ τὴν τυραννίδα οὔκω κάρτα ἐρριζωμένην ἔχων ἀπέβαλε
Ἰουδαίᾳ
- PROPN 9: οὐ γὰρ ἤθελεν ἐν τῇ Ἰουδαίᾳ περιπατεῖν ὅτι ἐζήτουν αὐτὸν οἱ Ἰουδαῖοι ἀποκτεῖναι
- ADJ 1: Μετὰ δὲ ἡμέρας τινὰς παραγενόμενος ὁ Φῆλιξ σὺν Δρουσίλλῃ τῇ ἰδίᾳ γυναικὶ οὔσῃ Ἰουδαίᾳ μετεπέμψατο τὸν Παῦλον καὶ ἤκουσεν αὐτοῦ περὶ τῆς εἰς Χριστὸν Ἰησοῦν πίστεως

Morphology

The form / lemma ratio of PROPN is 1.722707 (the average of all parts of speech is 3.387371).

The 1st highest number of forms (9) was observed with the lemma “Ζεύς”: Δία, Διί, Διός, Διὶ, Διὸς, Ζεὺς, Ζεῦ, Ζηνὶ, Ζηνὸς.

The 2nd highest number of forms (8) was observed with the lemma “Ἀσία”: Ἀσία, Ἀσίαν, Ἀσίας, Ἀσίη, Ἀσίην, Ἀσίης, Ἀσίᾳ, Ἀσίῃ.

The 3rd highest number of forms (7) was observed with the lemma “Βαρναβᾶς”: Βαρνάβαν, Βαρνάβας, Βαρνάβᾳ, Βαρναβᾶ, Βαρναβᾶν, Βαρναβᾶς, Βαρναβᾷ.

PROPN occurs with 3 features: grc-feat/Case (7515; 92% instances), grc-feat/Gender (7515; 92% instances), grc-feat/Number (7515; 92% instances)

PROPN occurs with 11 feature-value pairs: Case=Acc, Case=Dat, Case=Gen, Case=Nom, Case=Voc, Gender=Fem, Gender=Fem,Masc, Gender=Masc, Gender=Neut, Number=Plur, Number=Sing

PROPN occurs with 30 feature combinations. The most frequent feature combination is Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing (2085 tokens). Examples: Ἰησοῦς, Πέτρος, Ξέρξης, Παῦλος, Χριστὸς, Κροῖσος, Ἰωάννης, Κῦρος, Πειλᾶτος, Χριστός

Relations

PROPN nodes are attached to their parents using 19 different relations: grc-dep/nsubj (2003; 24% instances), grc-dep/nmod (1563; 19% instances), grc-dep/obl (1531; 19% instances), grc-dep/obj:dir (629; 8% instances), grc-dep/conj (573; 7% instances), grc-dep/appos (489; 6% instances), grc-dep/iobj (407; 5% instances), grc-dep/flat:name (274; 3% instances), grc-dep/nsubj:pass (199; 2% instances), grc-dep/xcomp (154; 2% instances), grc-dep/root (116; 1% instances), grc-dep/vocative (102; 1% instances), grc-dep/obl:agent (68; 1% instances), grc-dep/orphan (44; 1% instances), grc-dep/ccomp (29; 0% instances), grc-dep/advcl (25; 0% instances), grc-dep/parataxis (3; 0% instances), grc-dep/advmod (2; 0% instances), grc-dep/flat (1; 0% instances)

Parents of PROPN nodes belong to 14 different parts of speech: VERB (4835; 59% instances), NOUN (1640; 20% instances), PROPN (1094; 13% instances), ADJ (264; 3% instances), ROOT (116; 1% instances), ADV (95; 1% instances), PRON (75; 1% instances), AUX (36; 0% instances), NUM (29; 0% instances), ADP (16; 0% instances), CCONJ (5; 0% instances), INTJ (4; 0% instances), DET (2; 0% instances), SCONJ (1; 0% instances)

2700 (33%) PROPN nodes are leaves.

3348 (41%) PROPN nodes have one child.

1387 (17%) PROPN nodes have two children.

777 (9%) PROPN nodes have three or more children.

The highest child degree of a PROPN node is 16.

Children of PROPN nodes are attached using 24 different relations: grc-dep/det (3230; 35% instances), grc-dep/case (2069; 22% instances), grc-dep/cc (692; 7% instances), grc-dep/appos (678; 7% instances), grc-dep/conj (608; 7% instances), grc-dep/nmod (520; 6% instances), grc-dep/flat:name (274; 3% instances), grc-dep/acl (220; 2% instances), grc-dep/cop (190; 2% instances), grc-dep/nsubj (189; 2% instances), grc-dep/discourse (131; 1% instances), grc-dep/amod (114; 1% instances), grc-dep/advmod (101; 1% instances), grc-dep/iobj (89; 1% instances), grc-dep/orphan (57; 1% instances), grc-dep/mark (27; 0% instances), grc-dep/obl (25; 0% instances), grc-dep/advcl (7; 0% instances), grc-dep/nummod (3; 0% instances), grc-dep/fixed (2; 0% instances), grc-dep/vocative (2; 0% instances), grc-dep/ccomp (1; 0% instances), grc-dep/flat (1; 0% instances), grc-dep/obj:dir (1; 0% instances)

Children of PROPN nodes belong to 13 different parts of speech: DET (3222; 35% instances), ADP (2070; 22% instances), PROPN (1094; 12% instances), NOUN (901; 10% instances), CCONJ (694; 8% instances), VERB (319; 3% instances), ADJ (294; 3% instances), ADV (247; 3% instances), AUX (192; 2% instances), PRON (143; 2% instances), SCONJ (27; 0% instances), NUM (18; 0% instances), INTJ (10; 0% instances)