---
title: Due to lengthy delay in identifying and agreeing commission members,… — Guyana · tree and pragmatics
description: Due to lengthy delay in identifying and agreeing commission members, the commission was not appointed until 2016. Who acts: lengthy delay. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Guyana» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Guyana/114/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [wikipedia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/) / [en](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/) / [Guyana](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Guyana/) / 114

# Guyana, sentence 114

<!-- div src -->

From Wikipedia, [«Guyana»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guyana), 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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Due to lengthy delay in identifying and agreeing commission members, the commission was not appointed until 2016.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** lengthy delay · **What happens:** identify, agree, not appoint · **To what, where:** commission members, commission

<!-- .vabout -->
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.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:Guyana:114
# text = Due to lengthy delay in identifying and agreeing commission members, the commission was not appointed until 2016.
1	Due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	4	case	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	lengthy	lengthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	delay	delay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
5	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	identifying	identify	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	agreeing	agree	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	conj	_	_
9	commission	commission	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	members	member	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	commission	commission	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	appointed	appoint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
17	until	until	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	2016	2016	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | 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 |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Guyana», 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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 113](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Guyana/113/)
- next →: [sentence 115](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Guyana/115/)
- ↑ back to [Guyana](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Guyana/)