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title: After the long tenure of President Nyerere, the Constitution has a t… — Tanzania · tree and pragmatics
description: After the long tenure of President Nyerere, the Constitution has a term limit: a president can serve a maximum of two terms. Who acts: Constitution, president. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Tanzania» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Tanzania, sentence 138

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From Wikipedia, [«Tanzania»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanzania), 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 the long tenure of President Nyerere, the Constitution has a term limit: a president can serve a maximum of two terms.

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**Who acts:** Constitution, president · **What happens:** have, serve · **To what, where:** term limit, maximum

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Tanzania». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Constitution, president), 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:Tanzania:138
# text = After the long tenure of President Nyerere, the Constitution has a term limit: a president can serve a maximum of two terms.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	tenure	tenure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	President	President	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	Nyerere	Nyerere	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Constitution	Constitution	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	term	term	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	limit	limit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	president	president	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	serve	serve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	parataxis	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	maximum	maximum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	terms	term	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | the Constitution | a term limit |  |  | after the long tenure of President |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent limit=Patient |
| 2 | **serve** | can | a president | a maximum of two terms |  |  |  |  | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maximum=Attribute |

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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, «Tanzania», 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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