--- title: Although a few of the Fernandinos were Catholic and Spanish-speaking… — Equatorial Guinea · tree and pragmatics description: 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. 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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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = wikipedia:Equatorial_Guinea:66 # text = 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. 1 Although although SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 Fernandinos Fernandinos PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 8 Catholic catholic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 10 Spanish Spanish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 speaking speak VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 about about ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 nine nine NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 tenths tenth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nmod _ _ 20 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 21 Protestant protestant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 parataxis _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 English English ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 24 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 speaking speak VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 conj _ _ 26 on on ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 eve eve NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 31 First first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 33 amod _ _ 32 World World PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 War War PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 36 pidgin pidgin ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 English English PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 38 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 cop _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 lingua lingua NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 41 franca franca PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 appos _ _ 42 of of ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 island island NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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. - ← previous: [sentence 65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Equatorial_Guinea/65/) - next →: [sentence 67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Equatorial_Guinea/67/) - ↑ back to [Equatorial Guinea](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Equatorial_Guinea/)