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PROPN: proper noun

Definition

A proper noun is a noun that is the name (or part of the name) of a unique entity, be it an individual, a place, or an object.

Acronyms of proper nouns, such as UN and NATO, are also tagged as PROPN.

###Corresponding language-specific part-of-speech tags

SP: Proper noun

Examples


Treebank Statistics (UD_Italian)

There are 5378 PROPN lemmas (27%), 5417 PROPN types (18%) and 13892 PROPN tokens (5%). Out of 17 observed tags, the rank of PROPN is: 2 in number of lemmas, 3 in number of types and 7 in number of tokens.

The 10 most frequent PROPN lemmas: Italia, Shakespeare, Balzac, Roma, Europa, San, Stati, Uniti, Albania, Marco

The 10 most frequent PROPN types: Italia, Shakespeare, Balzac, Europa, San, Roma, Stati, Uniti, Albania, Marco

The 10 most frequent ambiguous lemmas: Unione (PROPN 59, NOUN 7), europea (PROPN 9, ADJ 8), de (ADP 36, PROPN 6, DET 4, X 1), Germania (PROPN 30, NOUN 1), Stato (PROPN 23, NOUN 12), Camera (PROPN 21, NOUN 9), A (PROPN 20, ADP 1, DET 1), Nord (PROPN 20, NOUN 1), Nazioni (PROPN 17, NOUN 1), Papa (PROPN 16, NOUN 1)

The 10 most frequent ambiguous types: San (PROPN 81, ADJ 1), Stati (PROPN 74, NOUN 53), Uniti (PROPN 74, ADJ 4), Unione (PROPN 59, NOUN 9), europea (ADJ 39, PROPN 19), de (ADP 41, PROPN 6, DET 3), Stato (NOUN 113, PROPN 23), Camera (NOUN 32, PROPN 21), A (ADP 303, PROPN 20, DET 4), Nord (PROPN 20, NOUN 4)

Morphology

The form / lemma ratio of PROPN is 1.007252 (the average of all parts of speech is 1.485733).

The 1st highest number of forms (2) was observed with the lemma “Aids”: AIDS, Aids.

The 2nd highest number of forms (2) was observed with the lemma “Bogotà”: BOGOTÀ, Bogotà.

The 3rd highest number of forms (2) was observed with the lemma “Bolzano”: BOLZANO, Bolzano.

PROPN occurs with 4 features: it-feat/Foreign (4; 0% instances), it-feat/NumType (2; 0% instances), it-feat/Gender (1; 0% instances), it-feat/Number (1; 0% instances)

PROPN occurs with 4 feature-value pairs: Foreign=Yes, Gender=Fem, NumType=Card, Number=Plur

PROPN occurs with 4 feature combinations. The most frequent feature combination is _ (13885 tokens). Examples: Italia, Shakespeare, Balzac, Europa, San, Roma, Stati, Uniti, Albania, Marco

Relations

PROPN nodes are attached to their parents using 22 different relations: it-dep/nmod (5149; 37% instances), it-dep/flat:name (3193; 23% instances), it-dep/nsubj (2049; 15% instances), it-dep/obl (1446; 10% instances), it-dep/conj (801; 6% instances), it-dep/obj (374; 3% instances), it-dep/root (238; 2% instances), it-dep/appos (220; 2% instances), it-dep/obl:agent (158; 1% instances), it-dep/nsubj:pass (145; 1% instances), it-dep/xcomp (60; 0% instances), it-dep/parataxis (20; 0% instances), it-dep/vocative (12; 0% instances), it-dep/advcl (7; 0% instances), it-dep/orphan (6; 0% instances), it-dep/ccomp (4; 0% instances), it-dep/dislocated (3; 0% instances), it-dep/acl:relcl (2; 0% instances), it-dep/csubj (2; 0% instances), it-dep/case (1; 0% instances), it-dep/compound (1; 0% instances), it-dep/flat:foreign (1; 0% instances)

Parents of PROPN nodes belong to 15 different parts of speech: NOUN (4968; 36% instances), PROPN (4500; 32% instances), VERB (3701; 27% instances), ROOT (238; 2% instances), PRON (231; 2% instances), ADJ (191; 1% instances), NUM (19; 0% instances), ADV (16; 0% instances), X (12; 0% instances), INTJ (4; 0% instances), AUX (3; 0% instances), DET (3; 0% instances), SYM (3; 0% instances), PUNCT (2; 0% instances), SCONJ (1; 0% instances)

4794 (35%) PROPN nodes are leaves.

3982 (29%) PROPN nodes have one child.

2807 (20%) PROPN nodes have two children.

2309 (17%) PROPN nodes have three or more children.

The highest child degree of a PROPN node is 19.

Children of PROPN nodes are attached using 31 different relations: it-dep/case (5352; 29% instances), it-dep/flat:name (3232; 18% instances), it-dep/det (2993; 16% instances), it-dep/punct (2663; 14% instances), it-dep/nmod (1137; 6% instances), it-dep/conj (878; 5% instances), it-dep/cc (483; 3% instances), it-dep/amod (389; 2% instances), it-dep/appos (315; 2% instances), it-dep/acl:relcl (209; 1% instances), it-dep/nummod (165; 1% instances), it-dep/acl (160; 1% instances), it-dep/advmod (153; 1% instances), it-dep/cop (73; 0% instances), it-dep/nsubj (54; 0% instances), it-dep/parataxis (26; 0% instances), it-dep/advcl (18; 0% instances), it-dep/det:predet (15; 0% instances), it-dep/mark (13; 0% instances), it-dep/det:poss (9; 0% instances), it-dep/aux (8; 0% instances), it-dep/fixed (8; 0% instances), it-dep/ccomp (5; 0% instances), it-dep/orphan (5; 0% instances), it-dep/compound (4; 0% instances), it-dep/discourse (3; 0% instances), it-dep/flat:foreign (3; 0% instances), it-dep/obl (3; 0% instances), it-dep/expl:impers (1; 0% instances), it-dep/vocative (1; 0% instances), it-dep/xcomp (1; 0% instances)

Children of PROPN nodes belong to 17 different parts of speech: ADP (5276; 29% instances), PROPN (4500; 24% instances), DET (3021; 16% instances), PUNCT (2664; 14% instances), NOUN (1006; 5% instances), CCONJ (484; 3% instances), ADJ (408; 2% instances), VERB (385; 2% instances), NUM (244; 1% instances), ADV (205; 1% instances), AUX (81; 0% instances), PRON (47; 0% instances), PART (24; 0% instances), SCONJ (14; 0% instances), X (9; 0% instances), SYM (8; 0% instances), INTJ (3; 0% instances)


Treebank Statistics (UD_Italian-ParTUT)

There are 698 PROPN lemmas (13%), 699 PROPN types (9%) and 1725 PROPN tokens (4%). Out of 15 observed tags, the rank of PROPN is: 4 in number of lemmas, 4 in number of types and 7 in number of tokens.

The 10 most frequent PROPN lemmas: Shakespeare, Balzac, Ucraina, Europa, Facebook, Pericle, Stati, Uniti, Cina, John

The 10 most frequent PROPN types: Shakespeare, Balzac, Ucraina, Europa, Facebook, Pericle, Stati, Uniti, Cina, John

The 10 most frequent ambiguous lemmas: de (ADP 13, X 4, PROPN 2), Lord (PROPN 3, X 1), Men (X 7, PROPN 3), New (PROPN 3, X 1), Chamberlain’s (PROPN 2, X 1), Comédie (X 5, PROPN 2), School (PROPN 2, X 1), Cousin (PROPN 1, X 1), Goriot (X 2, PROPN 1), His (ADJ 1, PROPN 1)

The 10 most frequent ambiguous types: Creative (PROPN 7, ADJ 1), Unione (PROPN 6, NOUN 1), de (ADP 15, X 4, PROPN 2), Lord (PROPN 3, X 1), Men (X 7, PROPN 3), Chamberlain’s (PROPN 2, X 1), Comédie (X 5, PROPN 2), School (PROPN 2, X 1), Bisbetica (NOUN 1, PROPN 1), Cousin (X 1, PROPN 1)

Morphology

The form / lemma ratio of PROPN is 1.001433 (the average of all parts of speech is 1.446672).

The 1st highest number of forms (2) was observed with the lemma “New”: NEW, New.

The 2nd highest number of forms (2) was observed with the lemma “Washington”: WASHINGTON, Washington.

The 3rd highest number of forms (1) was observed with the lemma “A.C.”: A.C..

PROPN occurs with 2 features: it-feat/Gender (1; 0% instances), it-feat/Number (1; 0% instances)

PROPN occurs with 2 feature-value pairs: Gender=Fem, Number=Plur

PROPN occurs with 2 feature combinations. The most frequent feature combination is _ (1724 tokens). Examples: Shakespeare, Balzac, Ucraina, Europa, Facebook, Pericle, Stati, Uniti, Cina, John

Relations

PROPN nodes are attached to their parents using 18 different relations: it-dep/nmod (650; 38% instances), it-dep/flat:name (306; 18% instances), it-dep/nsubj (266; 15% instances), it-dep/obl (143; 8% instances), it-dep/conj (127; 7% instances), it-dep/obj (60; 3% instances), it-dep/flat (56; 3% instances), it-dep/nsubj:pass (29; 2% instances), it-dep/obl:agent (24; 1% instances), it-dep/appos (19; 1% instances), it-dep/root (17; 1% instances), it-dep/amod (13; 1% instances), it-dep/xcomp (6; 0% instances), it-dep/advcl (3; 0% instances), it-dep/compound (2; 0% instances), it-dep/orphan (2; 0% instances), it-dep/case (1; 0% instances), it-dep/mark (1; 0% instances)

Parents of PROPN nodes belong to 12 different parts of speech: NOUN (658; 38% instances), PROPN (510; 30% instances), VERB (477; 28% instances), ADJ (22; 1% instances), NUM (17; 1% instances), ROOT (17; 1% instances), PRON (14; 1% instances), X (5; 0% instances), PUNCT (2; 0% instances), ADV (1; 0% instances), AUX (1; 0% instances), DET (1; 0% instances)

669 (39%) PROPN nodes are leaves.

484 (28%) PROPN nodes have one child.

306 (18%) PROPN nodes have two children.

266 (15%) PROPN nodes have three or more children.

The highest child degree of a PROPN node is 15.

Children of PROPN nodes are attached using 25 different relations: it-dep/case (617; 29% instances), it-dep/det (330; 16% instances), it-dep/flat:name (308; 15% instances), it-dep/punct (302; 14% instances), it-dep/conj (151; 7% instances), it-dep/nmod (138; 6% instances), it-dep/cc (85; 4% instances), it-dep/amod (55; 3% instances), it-dep/flat (30; 1% instances), it-dep/acl:relcl (25; 1% instances), it-dep/appos (21; 1% instances), it-dep/advmod (16; 1% instances), it-dep/nummod (15; 1% instances), it-dep/acl (5; 0% instances), it-dep/cop (5; 0% instances), it-dep/det:poss (4; 0% instances), it-dep/nsubj (4; 0% instances), it-dep/compound (3; 0% instances), it-dep/mark (3; 0% instances), it-dep/fixed (2; 0% instances), it-dep/advcl (1; 0% instances), it-dep/det:predet (1; 0% instances), it-dep/obj (1; 0% instances), it-dep/obl (1; 0% instances), it-dep/orphan (1; 0% instances)

Children of PROPN nodes belong to 14 different parts of speech: ADP (622; 29% instances), PROPN (510; 24% instances), DET (335; 16% instances), PUNCT (302; 14% instances), NOUN (126; 6% instances), CCONJ (85; 4% instances), ADJ (56; 3% instances), NUM (27; 1% instances), VERB (25; 1% instances), ADV (19; 1% instances), PRON (9; 0% instances), AUX (5; 0% instances), SCONJ (2; 0% instances), X (1; 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]