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title: In third century BC, Celts invaded central Anatolia and continued as… — Turkey · tree and pragmatics
description: In third century BC, Celts invaded central Anatolia and continued as a major ethnic group in the area for around 200 years. Who acts: Celts. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Turkey» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Turkey, sentence 98

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From Wikipedia, [«Turkey»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey), 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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In third century BC, Celts invaded central Anatolia and continued as a major ethnic group in the area for around 200 years.

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**Who acts:** Celts · **What happens:** invade, continue · **To what, where:** central Anatolia

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Turkey». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Celts), 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:Turkey:98
# text = In third century BC, Celts invaded central Anatolia and continued as a major ethnic group in the area for around 200 years.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	amod	_	_
3	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	BC	BC	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
6	Celts	celt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	invaded	invade	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	central	central	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Anatolia	Anatolia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	continued	continue	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	major	major	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	ethnic	ethnic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	around	around	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	200	200	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **invade** | past | Celts | central Anatolia |  |  | century |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **continue** | participle | Celts *not said here* |  |  |  | year | as a major ethnic group in the area | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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, «Turkey», 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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