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Any linguist here that can tell me how many of each word gramatical function are there in literary text?

Like how many verbs, nouns, adjectives, particles, conjunctions, interjections are in a literary text.

I have the suspiction 90% of all the words in a literary text are nouns.
I'm guesing the amount of verbs used in literary text to be around 500-800.
The amount of adjectives around 250.
The amount of adverbs around 150.
The amount of conjunctions to be like 70.

And so on.
To me nouns would be 90% of a literary text.

But my data is totally a made up guess.

Would appreciate any paper on this with some realistic numbers.