Equatorial Guinea, sentence 66
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.
Although a few of the Fernandinos were Catholic and Spanish-speaking, about nine-tenths of them were Protestant and English-speaking on the eve of the First World War, and pidgin English was the lingua franca of the island.
Who acts: few, nine tenths, pidgin English · What happens: be, speak · To what, where: eve, lingua · 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 (few, nine tenths, pidgin English), 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 | Although | although | SCONJ | _ | 3 few | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 few | det |
| 3 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Catholic | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Fernandinos | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Fernandinos | det |
| 6 | Fernandinos | Fernandinos | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 few | nmod |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 Catholic | cop |
| 8 | Catholic | catholic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 speaking | cc |
| 10 | Spanish | Spanish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 speaking | amod |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 Spanish | punct |
| 12 | speaking | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 Catholic | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 tenths | punct |
| 14 | about | about | ADV | _ | 15 nine | advmod |
| 15 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 tenths | nummod |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 nine | punct |
| 17 | tenths | tenth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 Protestant | nsubj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 them | case |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 tenths | nmod |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 Protestant | cop |
| 21 | Protestant | protestant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Catholic | parataxis |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 speaking | cc |
| 23 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 speaking | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 English | punct |
| 25 | speaking | speak | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 Protestant | conj |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 eve | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 eve | det |
| 28 | eve | eve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 speaking | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 War | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 War | det |
| 31 | First | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 33 War | amod |
| 32 | World | World | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 War | compound |
| 33 | War | War | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 eve | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 lingua | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 lingua | cc |
| 36 | pidgin | pidgin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 English | amod |
| 37 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 lingua | nsubj |
| 38 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 lingua | cop |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 lingua | det |
| 40 | lingua | lingua | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Catholic | conj |
| 41 | franca | franca | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 lingua | appos |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 island | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 island | det |
| 44 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 lingua | nmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 Catholic | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | a few of the Fernandinos | catholic property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | gerund | a few of the Fernandinos not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | nine tenths of planters | protestant property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | speak speech: other | gerund | nine tenths of planters not said here | the eve of the First World War | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | is a | past | pidgin English | the lingua | of the island; franca appos | tree rules |
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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «Equatorial Guinea», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tree: Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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