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title: In 2000, the constitution was amended to reduce the presidential ter… — Burkina Faso · tree and pragmatics
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# Burkina Faso, sentence 262

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From Wikipedia, [«Burkina Faso»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burkina_Faso), 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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In 2000, the constitution was amended to reduce the presidential term to five years and set term limits to two, preventing successive re-election.

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**What happens:** amend, reduce, prevent · **To what, where:** constitution, 2000, presidential term, two, successive re-election

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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.

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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:Burkina_Faso:262
# text = In 2000, the constitution was amended to reduce the presidential term to five years and set term limits to two, preventing successive re-election.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	2000	2000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	constitution	constitution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	amended	amend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	reduce	reduce	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	presidential	presidential	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	term	term	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	set	set	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	term	term	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	limits	limit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	preventing	prevent	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
24	successive	successive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	re-election	re-election	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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, «Burkina Faso», 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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