Burkina Faso, sentence 262
From Wikipedia, «Burkina Faso», 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.
In 2000, the constitution was amended to reduce the presidential term to five years and set term limits to two, preventing successive re-election.
What happens: amend, reduce, prevent · To what, where: constitution, 2000, presidential term, two, successive re-election
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Burkina Faso». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 2000 | case |
| 2 | 2000 | 2000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 amended | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 2000 | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 constitution | det |
| 5 | constitution | constitution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 amended | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 amended | aux:pass |
| 7 | amended | amend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 reduce | mark |
| 9 | reduce | reduce | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 amended | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 term | det |
| 11 | presidential | presidential | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 term | amod |
| 12 | term | term | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 reduce | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 years | case |
| 14 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 years | nummod |
| 15 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 reduce | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 limits | cc |
| 17 | set | set | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 limits | amod |
| 18 | term | term | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 limits | compound |
| 19 | limits | limit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 years | conj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 two | case |
| 21 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 reduce | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 preventing | punct |
| 23 | preventing | prevent | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 reduce | advcl |
| 24 | successive | successive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 re-election | amod |
| 25 | re-election | re-election | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 preventing | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 amended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | amend | past · passive | the constitution | 2000 | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reduce | to-infinitive | the presidential term | year | to two goal | vn limit-76 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer term=Patient to two=Goal | |||
| 3 | prevent | gerund | successive re-election | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer re-election=Theme |
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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