Equatorial Guinea, sentence 14
From Wikipedia, «Equatorial Guinea», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
Pygmies are the first confirmed inhabitants to settle in the area of present-day Equatorial Guinea, followed by a migration of Bantu-speaking groups in the 6th century BC.
Who acts: Pygmies, migration, Bantu · What happens: confirm, be, settle, follow, speak, migrate · To what, where: first confirmed inhabitants, area, groups · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Equatorial Guinea». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pygmies, migration, Bantu), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pygmies | pygmy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 inhabitants | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 inhabitants | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 inhabitants | det |
| 4 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 inhabitants | amod |
| 5 | confirmed | confirm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 inhabitants | amod |
| 6 | inhabitants | inhabitant | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 settle | mark |
| 8 | settle | settle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 inhabitants | acl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 area | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 area | det |
| 11 | area | area | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 settle | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 day | case |
| 13 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 day | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 present | punct |
| 15 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 area | nmod |
| 16 | Equatorial | Equatorial | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 day | appos |
| 17 | Guinea | Guinea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Equatorial | flat |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 followed | punct |
| 19 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 inhabitants | acl |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 migration | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 migration | det |
| 22 | migration | migration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 followed | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Bantu | case |
| 24 | Bantu | Bantu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 migration | nmod |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 speaking | punct |
| 26 | speaking | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 migration | acl |
| 27 | groups | group | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 speaking | obj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 century | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 century | det |
| 30 | 6th | 6th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 31 century | amod |
| 31 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 speaking | obl |
| 32 | BC | BC | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 century | appos |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 inhabitants | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | confirm | participle | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | Pygmies | the first confirmed inhabitants | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | settle | to-infinitive | the area of present day | vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in area=Location | |||||
| 4 | follow | participle | the first confirmed inhabitants not said here | by a migration of Bantu | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by migration=Location | ||||
| 5 | speak speech: other | gerund | a migration of Bantu not said here | groups | century | tree rules | |||
| 6 | migrate | Bantu | nom migration «act intransitive»: of=agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
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