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title: The ethnonym Calaico/a then came from the Gallaeci, Celtic peoples o… — Portugal · tree and pragmatics
description: The ethnonym Calaico/a then came from the Gallaeci, Celtic peoples of northwestern Iberia, and came to mean 'one of the land' or 'one of the place. Who acts: ethnonym. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Portugal» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Portugal, sentence 20

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From Wikipedia, [«Portugal»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portugal), 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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The ethnonym Calaico/a then came from the Gallaeci, Celtic peoples of northwestern Iberia, and came to mean 'one of the land' or 'one of the place.

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**Who acts:** ethnonym · **What happens:** come, mean · **To what, where:** Gallaeci, one

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Portugal». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ethnonym), 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:Portugal:20
# text = The ethnonym Calaico/a then came from the Gallaeci, Celtic peoples of northwestern Iberia, and came to mean 'one of the land' or 'one of the place.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ethnonym	ethnonym	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	Calaico/a	Calaico/a	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
4	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Gallaeci	Gallaeci	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	Celtic	celtic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	peoples	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	northwestern	northwestern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	Iberia	Iberia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
26	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	conj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	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 | **come** | past | the ethnonym |  |  | the Gallaeci and Celtic peoples of northwestern Iberia | then |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from gallaeci=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **come** | past | the ethnonym *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **mean** | to-infinitive | the ethnonym *not said here* | one of the land |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic |

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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, «Portugal», 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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