Value prop

Proper nouns can be either simple, compounds or consist of more than one wordform.

Simple proper nouns

D e s c r i p t i o n E x a m p l e s

first names Hans/prop  , Uli/prop  

last names Maier/prop  , Krafft/prop  

names of places Stuttgart/prop  , Moskau/prop   Villingen-Schwenningen/prop  , Heslach/prop  

names of planets Venus/prop  , Mars/prop  , Erde/prop  

names of companies VW/prop  , Daimler/prop  

names of orgnisations, parties SPD/prop  , HSV/prop  

names of fictional/mythological figures Pluto/prop  , Pinocchio/prop  

names of countries England/prop  , die Schweiz/prop  

(with or without article) die Türkei/prop  , die USA/prop  

names of rivers Rhein/prop  , Mississippi/prop  

Complex proper nouns

 
Parts of complex proper nouns (consisting of more than one word form) are tagged according to their distribution if the complex proper nouns consist of German single wordforms. Parts of foreign complex nouns are tagged as prop, however.

• Vincent/prop   van/prop   Gogh/prop  
• New/prop   York/prop  
• Wernher/prop   von/adpos   Braun/prop  
• Weil/prop   am/adpos   Rhein/prop  
• die Freie/adj   Universität/com   Berlin/prop  
• die Bundesrepublik/com   Deutschland/prop  
• die Deutsche/adj   Angestellen-Gewerkschaft/com  
• die Grauen/adj   Panther/com  
• die DAG/prop  
• der VfB/prop   spielt gegen den HSV/prop