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title: After Pinochet's defeat in the 1988 plebiscite, the constitution was… — Chile · tree and pragmatics
description: After Pinochet's defeat in the 1988 plebiscite, the constitution was amended to ease provisions for future amendments to the Constitution. Who acts: Pinochet. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Chile» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Chile, sentence 266

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From Wikipedia, [«Chile»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chile), 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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After Pinochet's defeat in the 1988 plebiscite, the constitution was amended to ease provisions for future amendments to the Constitution.

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**Who acts:** Pinochet · **What happens:** amend, ease, defeat · **To what, where:** constitution, provisions, 1988 plebiscite

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Chile». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pinochet), 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:Chile:266
# text = After Pinochet's defeat in the 1988 plebiscite, the constitution was amended to ease provisions for future amendments to the Constitution.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	Pinochet	Pinochet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	defeat	defeat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	1988	1988	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	plebiscite	plebiscite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	constitution	constitution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	amended	amend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	ease	ease	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	provisions	provision	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	future	future	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	amendments	amendment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Constitution	constitution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	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 |  |  | after Pinochet's defeat in the 1988 plebiscite |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **ease** | to-infinitive |  | provisions |  |  |  | for future amendments; to the Constitution | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent provision=Patient |
| 3 | **defeat** |  | Pinochet |  |  | the 1988 plebiscite |  |  | nom defeat «event transitive»: poss=agent in=place |

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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, «Chile», 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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