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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

• Maria, Michelangelo
• Londra
• Ansaldo Energia
• Kim Il Sung
• NATO, HBO, U.S.A.

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Treebank Statistics (UD_Italian)

There are 5313 PROPN lemmas (27%), 5358 PROPN types (18%) and 13345 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: Shakespeare, Balzac, Italia, Stati, Europa, San, Roma, Uniti, Albania, Marco

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

The 10 most frequent ambiguous lemmas: de (ADP 37, PROPN 5, X 3, DET 1), Stato (PROPN 40, NOUN 3), Germania (PROPN 28, NOUN 1), a (ADP 7046, NOUN 10, X 8, DET 3, ADV 2, CONJ 1, PROPN 1), Grande (PROPN 13, ADJ 1), Mondiali (PROPN 12, NOUN 2), Internazionale (PROPN 11, ADJ 1), Regione (PROPN 11, NOUN 1), C (PROPN 9, X 1), Ministro (PROPN 9, NOUN 1)

The 10 most frequent ambiguous types: stati (AUX 105, NOUN 46, VERB 25, PROPN 1), de (ADP 42, PROPN 5, X 2), Stato (NOUN 88, PROPN 40), Unione (PROPN 37, NOUN 6), europea (ADJ 31, PROPN 5), Camera (PROPN 23, NOUN 23), nazioni (NOUN 7, PROPN 1), Broglio (PROPN 20, NOUN 2), Nord (PROPN 20, NOUN 3), A (ADP 286, PROPN 19, DET 4)

• stati
  • AUX 105: Sono stati risparmiati soltanto in due :
  • NOUN 46: Gli stati membri sono destinatari di la presente direttiva .
  • VERB 25: I primi approcci non sono stati esaltanti .
  • PROPN 1: considerando che non bisogna limitare la libertà di gli stati membri di mantenere o introdurre un divieto , totale o parziale , di concludere contratti fuori di i locali commerciali se ciò è fatto , a loro avviso , in l’ interesse di i consumatori ;
• de
  • ADP 42: Come dicono le ragazze di “ Avanzi “ , “ ma de che , ahò ? “ .
  • PROPN 5: La Melandri , la Gaiotti de Biase e tutte le altre Erinni si sono offese perché volevano andar ci loro .
  • X 2: La prima opera è stata il Libellus de quinque corporibus regularibus , un trattato dedicato a la geometria , che ha ripreso temi antichi di tradizione platonico - pitagorica , studiati sempre con l’ intento di poter li utilizzare come elementi di il disegno .
• Stato
  • NOUN 88: 859 . Opere di competenza di lo Stato .
  • PROPN 40: Allarme per la sicurezza di il capo di lo Stato .
• Unione
  • PROPN 37: Quando l’ Unione Sovietica invase l’ Afghanistan ?
  • NOUN 6: 939 . Unione e commistione .
• europea
  • ADJ 31: Quando Weimar sarà Capitale europea di la cultura ?
  • PROPN 5: L’ Unione europea comincerà probabilmente a prendere le sue prime decisioni collettive mercoledì prossimo , quando si riunirà il suo Comitato politico .
• Camera
  • PROPN 23: Ciascuna Camera può disporre inchieste su materie di pubblico interesse .
  • NOUN 23: La Camera di i deputati è eletta a suffragio universale e diretto .
• nazioni
  • NOUN 7: Quante nazioni partecipano a la Conferenza Mondiale su la Popolazione ?
  • PROPN 1: A il Settebello l’ Otto nazioni di pallanuoto .
• Broglio
  • PROPN 20: L’ approvazione di il Governo permetteva a Broglio di negoziare con la NASA un accordo per definire i rispettivi contributi .
  • NOUN 2: Broglio ottenne inoltre il trasferimento di la gestione di il progetto da il CNR a l’ Università di Roma facendo sì che lo stesso fosse completamente sotto il suo controllo .
• Nord
  • PROPN 20: Altre 15 mila persone stanno lasciando lentamente Topusko , in il Nord .
  • NOUN 3: Anche da il Nord .
• A
  • ADP 286: A la sua bottega studiarono fra gli altri Luca Signorelli e il Perugino .
  • PROPN 19: Che cos’ è L’ A ?
  • DET 4: Quando “ A Portuguesa “ è diventato inno nazionale ?

Morphology

The form / lemma ratio of PROPN is 1.008470 (the average of all parts of speech is 1.491496).

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 “As”: AS, As.

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

PROPN occurs with 3 features: it-feat/Degree (1; 0% instances), it-feat/Gender (1; 0% instances), it-feat/Number (1; 0% instances)

PROPN occurs with 3 feature-value pairs: Degree=Abs, Gender=Fem, Number=Plur

PROPN occurs with 3 feature combinations. The most frequent feature combination is _ (13343 tokens). Examples: Shakespeare, Balzac, Italia, stati, Europa, San, Uniti, Albania, Marco, Roma

Relations

PROPN nodes are attached to their parents using 15 different relations: it-dep/nmod (6497; 49% instances), it-dep/name (3125; 23% instances), it-dep/nsubj (1963; 15% instances), it-dep/conj (725; 5% instances), it-dep/dobj (357; 3% instances), it-dep/root (221; 2% instances), it-dep/appos (208; 2% instances), it-dep/nsubjpass (146; 1% instances), it-dep/xcomp (57; 0% instances), it-dep/parataxis (15; 0% instances), it-dep/vocative (13; 0% instances), it-dep/advcl (8; 0% instances), it-dep/ccomp (5; 0% instances), it-dep/acl:relcl (3; 0% instances), it-dep/csubj (2; 0% instances)

Parents of PROPN nodes belong to 17 different parts of speech: NOUN (4653; 35% instances), PROPN (4397; 33% instances), VERB (3585; 27% instances), PRON (251; 2% instances), ROOT (221; 2% instances), ADJ (180; 1% instances), ADV (17; 0% instances), NUM (15; 0% instances), AUX (5; 0% instances), INTJ (4; 0% instances), PUNCT (4; 0% instances), SYM (4; 0% instances), DET (3; 0% instances), ADP (2; 0% instances), CONJ (2; 0% instances), SCONJ (1; 0% instances), X (1; 0% instances)

4875 (37%) PROPN nodes are leaves.

3604 (27%) PROPN nodes have one child.

2496 (19%) PROPN nodes have two children.

2370 (18%) PROPN nodes have three or more children.

The highest child degree of a PROPN node is 38.

Children of PROPN nodes are attached using 30 different relations: it-dep/case (5118; 28% instances), it-dep/name (3192; 18% instances), it-dep/det (3013; 17% instances), it-dep/punct (2634; 15% instances), it-dep/nmod (1178; 7% instances), it-dep/conj (811; 4% instances), it-dep/cc (534; 3% instances), it-dep/amod (410; 2% instances), it-dep/appos (295; 2% instances), it-dep/acl:relcl (217; 1% instances), it-dep/nummod (165; 1% instances), it-dep/acl (163; 1% instances), it-dep/advmod (136; 1% instances), it-dep/cop (42; 0% instances), it-dep/nsubj (25; 0% instances), it-dep/parataxis (23; 0% instances), it-dep/advcl (18; 0% instances), it-dep/det:predet (16; 0% instances), it-dep/mark (11; 0% instances), it-dep/neg (11; 0% instances), it-dep/det:poss (9; 0% instances), it-dep/mwe (8; 0% instances), it-dep/ccomp (5; 0% instances), it-dep/aux (4; 0% instances), it-dep/discourse (3; 0% instances), it-dep/foreign (2; 0% instances), it-dep/vocative (2; 0% instances), it-dep/compound (1; 0% instances), it-dep/dep (1; 0% instances), it-dep/dobj (1; 0% instances)

Children of PROPN nodes belong to 17 different parts of speech: ADP (5082; 28% instances), PROPN (4397; 24% instances), DET (3038; 17% instances), PUNCT (2634; 15% instances), NOUN (980; 5% instances), CONJ (532; 3% instances), VERB (435; 2% instances), ADJ (430; 2% instances), NUM (241; 1% instances), ADV (194; 1% instances), PRON (48; 0% instances), SCONJ (11; 0% instances), SYM (8; 0% instances), X (7; 0% instances), AUX (4; 0% instances), PART (4; 0% instances), INTJ (3; 0% instances)

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