---
title: The Moscow News was the oldest English-language weekly newspaper Rus… — Moscow · tree and pragmatics
description: The Moscow News was the oldest English-language weekly newspaper Russia. Who acts: Moscow News. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Moscow» 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/Moscow/765/)

<!-- 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/) / [Moscow](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Moscow/) / 765

# Moscow, sentence 765

<!-- div src -->

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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The Moscow News was the oldest English-language weekly newspaper Russia.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Moscow News · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** oldest English language

<!-- .vabout -->
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: who acts (Moscow News), 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:Moscow:765
# text = The Moscow News was the oldest English-language weekly newspaper Russia.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Moscow	Moscow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	News	News	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	oldest	old	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	9	amod	_	_
7	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	weekly	weekly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	newspaper	newspaper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	list	_	_
12	Russia	Russia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the Moscow News | the oldest English language |  |  |  | weekly newspaper *list* | tree rules |

<!-- .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, «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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 764](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Moscow/764/)
- next →: [sentence 766](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Moscow/766/)
- ↑ back to [Moscow](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Moscow/)