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title: The new Constitution, approved by referendum in 2009, makes access t… — Bolivia · tree and pragmatics
description: The new Constitution, approved by referendum in 2009, makes access to water a fundamental right. Who acts: new Constitution. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Bolivia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Bolivia, sentence 274

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From Wikipedia, [«Bolivia»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolivia), 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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The new Constitution, approved by referendum in 2009, makes access to water a fundamental right.

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**Who acts:** new Constitution · **What happens:** approve, make · **To what, where:** new Constitution, 2009, access

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Bolivia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (new Constitution), 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:Bolivia:274
# text = The new Constitution, approved by referendum in 2009, makes access to water a fundamental right.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Constitution	Constitution	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	approved	approve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	referendum	referendum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	2009	2009	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
11	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	access	access	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	fundamental	fundamental	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	right	right	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **approve** | participle |  | the new Constitution *not said here* |  | 2009 |  | by referendum | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **make** | present | the new Constitution | access |  |  |  | to water; a fundamental right *obj* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset access=Beneficiary right=Product |

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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, «Bolivia», 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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