  We study non-totally geodesic Lagrangian submanifolds of the nearly K\"ahler
$\mathbb{S}^3 \times \mathbb{S}^3$ for which the projection on the first
component is nowhere of maximal rank. We show that this property can be
expressed in terms of the so called angle functions and that such Lagrangian
submanifolds are closely related to minimal surfaces in $\mathbb{S}^3$. Indeed,
starting from an arbitrary minimal surface, we can construct locally a large
family of such Lagrangian immersions, including one exceptional example.
