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title: Coastal ethnic groups, sometimes referred to as Ndowe or "Playeros"… — Equatorial Guinea · tree and pragmatics
description: Coastal ethnic groups, sometimes referred to as Ndowe or "Playeros" (Beach People in Spanish): Combes, Bujebas, Balengues, and Bengas on the mainland and small islands, and Fernandinos, a Krio community on Bioko Island together comprise 5% of the population. Who acts: Coastal ethnic groups. A senten
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# Equatorial Guinea, sentence 278

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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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Coastal ethnic groups, sometimes referred to as Ndowe or "Playeros" (Beach People in Spanish): Combes, Bujebas, Balengues, and Bengas on the mainland and small islands, and Fernandinos, a Krio community on Bioko Island together comprise 5% of the population.

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**Who acts:** Coastal ethnic groups · **What happens:** refer, comprise · **To what, where:** Coastal ethnic groups, Ndowe

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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 (Coastal ethnic groups), 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:278
# text = Coastal ethnic groups, sometimes referred to as Ndowe or "Playeros" (Beach People in Spanish): Combes, Bujebas, Balengues, and Bengas on the mainland and small islands, and Fernandinos, a Krio community on Bioko Island together comprise 5% of the population.
1	Coastal	coastal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	ethnic	ethnic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	groups	group	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	6	advmod	_	_
6	referred	refer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Ndowe	Ndowe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Playeros	Playeros	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
14	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Beach	Beach	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	People	People	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	9	appos	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Spanish	Spanish	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
21	Combes	Combes	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	Bujebas	Bujebas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	Balengues	Balengues	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	Bengas	Bengas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
29	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	mainland	mainland	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	Fernandinos	Fernandinos	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	Krio	Krio	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	community	community	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	_
42	on	on	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	Bioko	Bioko	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	_
44	Island	Island	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	_
45	together	together	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
46	comprise	comprise	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
47	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	48	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	46	obj	_	_
49	of	of	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	46	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **refer** | participle |  | Coastal ethnic groups  Combes and Bujebas and Balengues and Bengas on the mainland and small islands and Fernandinos *not said here* | Ndowe or Playeros |  |  | sometimes *property* | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to ndowe=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **comprise** | present | Coastal ethnic groups  Combes and Bujebas and Balengues and Bengas on the mainland and small islands and Fernandinos |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme %=Pivot |

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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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