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title: These new outskirts became known as the Meshchanskaya sloboda, after… — Moscow · tree and pragmatics
description: These new outskirts became known as the Meshchanskaya sloboda, after Ruthenian meshchane "town people". A sentence of Wikipedia's «Moscow» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Moscow, sentence 103

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From Wikipedia, [«Moscow»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow), 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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These new outskirts became known as the Meshchanskaya sloboda, after Ruthenian meshchane "town people".

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**What happens:** know · **To what, where:** new outskirts

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Moscow». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:Moscow:103
# text = These new outskirts became known as the Meshchanskaya sloboda, after Ruthenian meshchane "town people".
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
2	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	outskirts	outskirt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Meshchanskaya	Meshchanskaya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	sloboda	sloboda	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	after	after	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	Ruthenian	Ruthenian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	meshchane	meshchane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | past · passive |  | this new outskirts |  |  | after Ruthenian meshchane | as the Meshchanskaya sloboda | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as sloboda=Attribute |

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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, «Moscow», 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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