Guyana, sentence 114
From Wikipedia, «Guyana», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
Due to lengthy delay in identifying and agreeing commission members, the commission was not appointed until 2016.
Who acts: lengthy delay · What happens: identify, agree, not appoint · To what, where: commission members, commission
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Guyana». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lengthy delay), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Due | due | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 4 delay | case |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 1 Due | fixed |
| 3 | lengthy | lengthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 delay | amod |
| 4 | delay | delay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 appointed | obl |
| 5 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 6 identifying | mark |
| 6 | identifying | identify | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 delay | acl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 agreeing | cc |
| 8 | agreeing | agree | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 identifying | conj |
| 9 | commission | commission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 members | compound |
| 10 | members | member | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 agreeing | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 delay | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 commission | det |
| 13 | commission | commission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 appointed | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 appointed | aux:pass |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 appointed | advmod |
| 16 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 17 | until | until | ADP | _ | 18 2016 | case |
| 18 | 2016 | 2016 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 appointed | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 appointed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | identify | gerund | lengthy delay not said here | vn empathize-88.2 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | agree speech: agree | gerund | lengthy delay not said here | commission members | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent member=Topic | ||||
| 3 | not appoint | past · passive | the commission | until 2016 | due lengthy delay | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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