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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.

In Norwegian, proper nouns do usually not inflect for morphological properties like gender, number, etc. Proper nouns are furthermore written with a capital letter.

#####Examples

• Kari, Ola
• Oslo, Bergen

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Treebank Statistics (UD_Norwegian-Bokmaal)

There are 4314 PROPN lemmas (19%), 4660 PROPN types (15%) and 16457 PROPN tokens (6%). Out of 17 observed tags, the rank of PROPN is: 2 in number of lemmas, 2 in number of types and 7 in number of tokens.

The 10 most frequent PROPN lemmas: Norge, Obama, Regjeringen, Oslo, USA, Cathrine, Stortinget, Den, Jan, Espen

The 10 most frequent PROPN types: Norge, Obama, Regjeringen, Oslo, USA, Den, Jan, Stortinget, Svalbard, Espen

The 10 most frequent ambiguous lemmas: Oslo (PROPN 146, X 2), Den (PROPN 115, X 1, DET 1), The (PROPN 51, X 1), Fashanu (PROPN 44, X 2), Det (PROPN 27, X 2), Annan (PROPN 25, X 1), de (PRON 1489, DET 1233, PROPN 11, X 5, ADV 1), norsk (ADJ 463, NOUN 18, PROPN 1), Haram (PROPN 16, X 1), ©NTB (PROPN 13, X 1)

The 10 most frequent ambiguous types: Regjeringen (PROPN 144, NOUN 37), Oslo (PROPN 141, X 2), Den (DET 207, PROPN 115, PRON 75, X 1), The (PROPN 51, X 1), Regjeringens (PROPN 42, NOUN 5), Fashanu (PROPN 36, X 2), Arbeiderpartiet (PROPN 32, NOUN 1), Mitt (PROPN 28, DET 9), Det (PRON 1500, DET 139, PROPN 27, X 2), Annan (PROPN 25, X 1)

• Regjeringen
  • PROPN 144: Regjeringen kan også smuldre opp innenfra .
  • NOUN 37: Regjeringen har fastslått at røyking er farlig .
• Oslo
  • PROPN 141: Det var til og med langt fra Oslo .
  • X 2: I love Oslo .
• Den
  • DET 207: Den albanske ambassador Aleksander Sallabanda fulgte opp
  • PROPN 115: Og hun var medlem av Den Norske Nobelkomite i tolv år .
  • PRON 75: Den som hun tok av seg da vi kom hjem .
  • X 1: « Den underbara doften av sportaffär och syntet . »
• The
  • PROPN 51: Låten heter « The spirit carries on » .
  • X 1: « The uniform says a lot about you , it can say that you’ve made it , or that you’re on your way . But where you end up is entirely up to you » .
• Regjeringens
  • PROPN 42: Bjarne Håkon Hanssen er en av Regjeringens største politiske begavelser .
  • NOUN 5: Regjeringens skolereform Kunnskapsløftet skal gjennomføres fra 2006 .
• Fashanu
  • PROPN 36: På nettet lever Justin Fashanu videre .
  • X 2: Ipswich-fansen , rivalene til Fashanus gamle klubb Norwich , synger den lite hyggelige supportersangen « He’s gay , he’s dead , he’s hanging in the shed , Fashanu , Fashanu » .
• Arbeiderpartiet
  • PROPN 32: Arbeiderpartiet har gått fra 200000 medlemmer etter krigen til 51000 i dag .
  • NOUN 1: Arbeiderpartiet har vært på offensiven på de fleste målinger etter terrorangrepet 22. juli .
• Mitt
  • PROPN 28: Barack Obama leder med drøyt 50.000 flere enn Mitt Romney .
  • DET 9: - Mitt utgangspunkt er at vi skal jobbe med sikte på å bli bedre .
• Det
  • PRON 1500: Det ble rene ord :
  • DET 139: Det beste , de viktigste lærdommene , lærer vi ikke noe av .
  • PROPN 27: Det store vi er i dag lite kjent utenfor pressens vegger .
  • X 2: « Det breinn !
• Annan
  • PROPN 25: Helt siden han tiltrådte , har Kofi Annan talt de fattiges sak .
  • X 1: - President Annan of the world , erklærte Jean til klampetrapp .

Morphology

The form / lemma ratio of PROPN is 1.080204 (the average of all parts of speech is 1.383513).

The 1st highest number of forms (3) was observed with the lemma “Demokratene”: Demokratene, demokratenes, demokretane.

The 2nd highest number of forms (3) was observed with the lemma “EU”: EU, EU’s, EUs.

The 3rd highest number of forms (3) was observed with the lemma “FN”: FN, FN’s, FNs.

PROPN occurs with 3 features: no-feat/Gender (2323; 14% instances), no-feat/Case (1130; 7% instances), no-feat/Abbr (612; 4% instances)

PROPN occurs with 5 feature-value pairs: Abbr=Yes, Case=Gen, Gender=Fem, Gender=Masc, Gender=Neut

PROPN occurs with 10 feature combinations. The most frequent feature combination is _ (12594 tokens). Examples: Norge, Obama, Regjeringen, Oslo, Den, Svalbard, Cathrine, Høyre, Mayen, Romney

Relations

PROPN nodes are attached to their parents using 21 different relations: no-dep/nsubj (4142; 25% instances), no-dep/flat:name (3807; 23% instances), no-dep/nmod (3710; 23% instances), no-dep/obl (2092; 13% instances), no-dep/conj (1081; 7% instances), no-dep/obj (504; 3% instances), no-dep/root (490; 3% instances), no-dep/nsubj:pass (162; 1% instances), no-dep/parataxis (115; 1% instances), no-dep/appos (103; 1% instances), no-dep/compound (102; 1% instances), no-dep/xcomp (54; 0% instances), no-dep/iobj (46; 0% instances), no-dep/orphan (19; 0% instances), no-dep/advcl (9; 0% instances), no-dep/acl (6; 0% instances), no-dep/ccomp (5; 0% instances), no-dep/acl:relcl (4; 0% instances), no-dep/flat:foreign (3; 0% instances), no-dep/csubj (2; 0% instances), no-dep/goeswith (1; 0% instances)

Parents of PROPN nodes belong to 13 different parts of speech: VERB (6126; 37% instances), PROPN (5317; 32% instances), NOUN (3800; 23% instances), ROOT (490; 3% instances), ADJ (426; 3% instances), PRON (69; 0% instances), DET (68; 0% instances), ADV (61; 0% instances), ADP (43; 0% instances), NUM (41; 0% instances), INTJ (7; 0% instances), X (5; 0% instances), SYM (4; 0% instances)

7763 (47%) PROPN nodes are leaves.

4177 (25%) PROPN nodes have one child.

2198 (13%) PROPN nodes have two children.

2319 (14%) PROPN nodes have three or more children.

The highest child degree of a PROPN node is 20.

Children of PROPN nodes are attached using 27 different relations: no-dep/flat:name (4732; 26% instances), no-dep/case (4730; 26% instances), no-dep/punct (2576; 14% instances), no-dep/nmod (2182; 12% instances), no-dep/conj (1122; 6% instances), no-dep/cc (780; 4% instances), no-dep/acl:relcl (275; 2% instances), no-dep/advmod (241; 1% instances), no-dep/appos (228; 1% instances), no-dep/amod (205; 1% instances), no-dep/cop (144; 1% instances), no-dep/det (138; 1% instances), no-dep/obl (125; 1% instances), no-dep/acl (102; 1% instances), no-dep/nsubj (87; 0% instances), no-dep/expl (53; 0% instances), no-dep/mark (47; 0% instances), no-dep/parataxis (28; 0% instances), no-dep/xcomp (23; 0% instances), no-dep/advcl (21; 0% instances), no-dep/compound (21; 0% instances), no-dep/nummod (20; 0% instances), no-dep/orphan (20; 0% instances), no-dep/aux (9; 0% instances), no-dep/csubj (2; 0% instances), no-dep/discourse (1; 0% instances), no-dep/goeswith (1; 0% instances)

Children of PROPN nodes belong to 17 different parts of speech: PROPN (5317; 30% instances), ADP (4845; 27% instances), PUNCT (2576; 14% instances), NOUN (2471; 14% instances), CCONJ (822; 5% instances), ADJ (480; 3% instances), VERB (315; 2% instances), NUM (236; 1% instances), ADV (202; 1% instances), DET (195; 1% instances), AUX (153; 1% instances), X (145; 1% instances), PRON (117; 1% instances), SYM (19; 0% instances), SCONJ (15; 0% instances), PART (4; 0% instances), INTJ (1; 0% instances)

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Treebank Statistics (UD_Norwegian-Nynorsk)

There are 3774 PROPN lemmas (16%), 3890 PROPN types (13%) and 13153 PROPN tokens (5%). Out of 17 observed tags, the rank of PROPN is: 2 in number of lemmas, 3 in number of types and 9 in number of tokens.

The 10 most frequent PROPN lemmas: Noreg, Førde, Språkrådet, Sogn, Høgre, Kviteseid, Oslo, Fjordane, Helse, Tyskland

The 10 most frequent PROPN types: Noreg, Førde, Språkrådet, Sogn, Kviteseid, Oslo, Høgre, Fjordane, Helse, Tyskland

The 10 most frequent ambiguous lemmas: Språkrådet (PROPN 141, X 1), Gud (PROPN 43, X 1), den (DET 1785, PRON 129, X 9, PROPN 1), The (PROPN 26, X 2), Statens (PROPN 19, X 1), det (PRON 5091, DET 1207, X 15, PROPN 1), A (PROPN 17, NOUN 1), Dagens (PROPN 14, X 10), Frp (NOUN 26, PROPN 10), NAV (PROPN 7, NOUN 1)

The 10 most frequent ambiguous types: Språkrådet (PROPN 138, NOUN 1, X 1), Helse (PROPN 81, NOUN 1), Norsk (PROPN 59, ADJ 14, NOUN 5), Klassekampen (PROPN 53, NOUN 1), Norge (PROPN 52, X 1), Norske (PROPN 40, ADJ 9), Regjeringa (PROPN 37, NOUN 14), Tokke (PROPN 35, NOUN 1), Den (DET 241, PROPN 27, PRON 25), The (PROPN 26, X 2)

• Språkrådet
  • PROPN 138: 3.5.2.3 Nye oppgåver som tidlegare er lagde til Språkrådet
  • NOUN 1: Den tidlegare kortforma - Språkrådet - er no det offisielle namnet på den reorganiserte institusjonen .
  • X 1: Viktige aspekter ved dette er at Språkrådet må ha hele samfunnet som operasjonsfelt , og at det skal legges opp til samarbeid med aktuelle aktører over et bredt spekter , dessuten at observasjon og analyse må utgjøre en basis for arbeidet . »
• Helse
  • PROPN 81: Her blir strategien og omstillingstiltaka for Helse Førde hovudtema .
  • NOUN 1: Helse , butikk , utdaning , omsorg , i alle desse sektorane er lønene i Tyskland langt lægre enn i nabolanda .
• Norsk
  • PROPN 59: 3.5.3.4 Merknader i Norsk i hundre !
  • ADJ 14: Norsk skule må altså produsera meir statistikk og fleire rapportar .
  • NOUN 5: 1 Norsk skal vera hovudspråket og felles nasjonalspråk i Noreg
• Klassekampen
  • PROPN 53: « Et anti-islamsk nettverk » , hevda Klassekampen .
  • NOUN 1: Klassekampen vil halde fram , og faren for kontrarevolusjon er til stades , var blant hans sentrale tesar .
• Norge
  • PROPN 52: Når diskuterer vi det i Norge ?
  • X 1: Grunngivinga , som alle partia var samde om , var at « norske allianseforpliktelser gjør det nødvendig at Norge bidrar til kampen mot internasjonal terrorisme . »
• Norske
  • PROPN 40: Norske Skog fekk med seg Union-krafta
  • ADJ 9: - Norske politikarar er interesserte , men mest på papiret .
• Regjeringa
  • PROPN 37: Derfor vil Arbeidarpartiet og Regjeringa ha eit samferdselsløft .
  • NOUN 14: - Regjeringa skal gjennomføre klimaforliket .
• Tokke
  • PROPN 35: I Tokke :
  • NOUN 1: Tokke var derimot positiv til forsøket , og derfor let verdsrekordforsøket seg gjennomføre .
• Den
  • DET 241: Den førehandsavtala prisen er 38 euro .
  • PROPN 27: Men trefte han Den framande eller Knappestøyparen ?
  • PRON 25: Den er ikkje frå Elstat , men hans eigen .
• The
  • PROPN 26: Og The disorder of things .
  • X 2: « KOHN 91.9 . The Voice of the Tohono O’odham Nation » .

Morphology

The form / lemma ratio of PROPN is 1.030737 (the average of all parts of speech is 1.343969).

The 1st highest number of forms (3) was observed with the lemma “Arbeiderpartiet”: Arbeidarpartiet, Arbeiderpartiet, Arbeiderpartiets.

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

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

PROPN occurs with 2 features: no-feat/Case (305; 2% instances), no-feat/Abbr (1; 0% instances)

PROPN occurs with 2 feature-value pairs: Abbr=Yes, Case=Gen

PROPN occurs with 3 feature combinations. The most frequent feature combination is _ (12847 tokens). Examples: Noreg, Førde, Språkrådet, Sogn, Kviteseid, Oslo, Høgre, Fjordane, Helse, Tyskland

Relations

PROPN nodes are attached to their parents using 21 different relations: no-dep/flat:name (3636; 28% instances), no-dep/nmod (3035; 23% instances), no-dep/nsubj (2961; 23% instances), no-dep/obl (1744; 13% instances), no-dep/conj (766; 6% instances), no-dep/obj (400; 3% instances), no-dep/root (256; 2% instances), no-dep/appos (67; 1% instances), no-dep/nsubj:pass (66; 1% instances), no-dep/parataxis (66; 1% instances), no-dep/compound (45; 0% instances), no-dep/xcomp (40; 0% instances), no-dep/iobj (34; 0% instances), no-dep/orphan (15; 0% instances), no-dep/advcl (8; 0% instances), no-dep/acl:relcl (6; 0% instances), no-dep/acl (3; 0% instances), no-dep/csubj (2; 0% instances), no-dep/ccomp (1; 0% instances), no-dep/expl (1; 0% instances), no-dep/goeswith (1; 0% instances)

Parents of PROPN nodes belong to 12 different parts of speech: NOUN (5022; 38% instances), VERB (4180; 32% instances), PROPN (2756; 21% instances), ADJ (626; 5% instances), ROOT (256; 2% instances), DET (135; 1% instances), PRON (65; 0% instances), ADV (41; 0% instances), ADP (40; 0% instances), NUM (29; 0% instances), X (2; 0% instances), INTJ (1; 0% instances)

6362 (48%) PROPN nodes are leaves.

3614 (27%) PROPN nodes have one child.

1663 (13%) PROPN nodes have two children.

1514 (12%) PROPN nodes have three or more children.

The highest child degree of a PROPN node is 13.

Children of PROPN nodes are attached using 26 different relations: no-dep/case (4522; 34% instances), no-dep/flat:name (3198; 24% instances), no-dep/punct (1580; 12% instances), no-dep/nmod (1167; 9% instances), no-dep/conj (803; 6% instances), no-dep/cc (585; 4% instances), no-dep/amod (194; 1% instances), no-dep/acl:relcl (159; 1% instances), no-dep/advmod (151; 1% instances), no-dep/appos (136; 1% instances), no-dep/det (136; 1% instances), no-dep/obl (99; 1% instances), no-dep/cop (84; 1% instances), no-dep/acl (71; 1% instances), no-dep/nsubj (55; 0% instances), no-dep/mark (41; 0% instances), no-dep/orphan (35; 0% instances), no-dep/expl (25; 0% instances), no-dep/parataxis (22; 0% instances), no-dep/nummod (19; 0% instances), no-dep/xcomp (19; 0% instances), no-dep/compound (17; 0% instances), no-dep/advcl (13; 0% instances), no-dep/aux (5; 0% instances), no-dep/discourse (4; 0% instances), no-dep/obj (3; 0% instances)

Children of PROPN nodes belong to 17 different parts of speech: ADP (4701; 36% instances), PROPN (2756; 21% instances), NOUN (1919; 15% instances), PUNCT (1580; 12% instances), CCONJ (754; 6% instances), ADJ (329; 3% instances), X (222; 2% instances), VERB (214; 2% instances), DET (188; 1% instances), NUM (147; 1% instances), ADV (128; 1% instances), AUX (89; 1% instances), PRON (71; 1% instances), SYM (26; 0% instances), SCONJ (8; 0% instances), PART (7; 0% instances), INTJ (4; 0% instances)

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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]

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