An user Galician
says…

Adverb
  recentemente
Adverb
  empezaron
Verb
  a
Adposition
 facerse grandes progresos  na
 comprensión  da
  súa
Determiner
  función
Noun
.

It is only recently that great progress has been made in understanding its function.
Words and sentences
New

New
recentemente

recently

New
empezaron

third-person plural preterite indicative of empezar

New
a

New
na

New
da

of the; from the

New
súa

New
función

function, purpose

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