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title: In 2001, Conté organised and won a referendum to lengthen the presid… — Guinea · tree and pragmatics
description: In 2001, Conté organised and won a referendum to lengthen the presidential term, and in 2003, he began his third term after elections were boycotted by the opposition. Who acts: Conté, opposition. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Guinea» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Guinea, sentence 80

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From Wikipedia, [«Guinea»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinea), 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 2001, Conté organised and won a referendum to lengthen the presidential term, and in 2003, he began his third term after elections were boycotted by the opposition.

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**Who acts:** Conté, opposition · **What happens:** organise, win, lengthen, begin, boycott, term · **To what, where:** 2001, referendum, presidential term, third term, 2003, elections

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Guinea». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Conté, opposition), 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:Guinea:80
# text = In 2001, Conté organised and won a referendum to lengthen the presidential term, and in 2003, he began his third term after elections were boycotted by the opposition.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	2001	2001	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Conté	Conté	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	organised	organise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	won	win	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	referendum	referendum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	lengthen	lengthen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	presidential	presidential	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	term	term	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	2003	2003	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	24	amod	_	_
24	term	term	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	elections	election	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
27	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	boycotted	boycott	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	xcomp	_	_
29	by	by	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	opposition	opposition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **organise** | past | Conté |  |  | 2001 |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **win** | past | Conté *not said here* | a referendum |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent referendum=Eventuality |
| 3 | **lengthen** | to-infinitive | Conté *not said here* | the presidential term |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent term=Patient |
| 4 | **begin** | past | Conté | Conté's third term |  | 2003 |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **boycott** | past · passive | the opposition | elections |  |  |  |  | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent subject=Location |
| 6 | **term** |  | Conté |  |  |  |  |  | nom term «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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, «Guinea», 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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