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title: Pygmies are the first confirmed inhabitants to settle in the area of… — Equatorial Guinea · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Equatorial Guinea» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Equatorial Guinea, sentence 14

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From Wikipedia, [«Equatorial Guinea»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equatorial_Guinea), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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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.

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**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

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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.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Equatorial_Guinea:14
# text = 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.
1	Pygmies	pygmy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	amod	_	_
5	confirmed	confirm	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
6	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	settle	settle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	present	present	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
16	Equatorial	Equatorial	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
17	Guinea	Guinea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	followed	follow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	migration	migration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Bantu	Bantu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	speaking	speak	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	acl	_	_
27	groups	group	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	6th	6th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	31	amod	_	_
31	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
32	BC	BC	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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**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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