How to take a certain number of words from the user's text?

Question

Python

Hello, I am doing a "multi-kick" command and it is necessary that after this command a certain number of words be taken, and if this number is exceeded, an error will come out.
I tried this, but everything is mixed into one list:

text = event.obj['text'].split(' ', maxsplit=1)
if text[0] == "мульти-кик":
   print(text[1:])

It comes out something like this:

Answer 1

words = event.obj['text'].split(' ')
if len(words) > 5:
    print('Ошибка')