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title: Upalong in that direction» (upalong = up that way, in country talk),… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 3: Way… · tree and pragmatics
description: Upalong in that direction» (upalong = up that way, in country talk), and now is «tramping southward, following the old call, back to the old life». Who acts: direction. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 3: Wayfarers All (the Sea Rat from Constantinople)» of the book
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 3: Wayfarers All (the Sea Rat from Constantinople), sentence 13

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Upalong in that direction» (upalong = up that way, in country talk), and now is «tramping southward, following the old call, back to the old life».

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**Who acts:** direction · **What happens:** upalong up, be, follow · **To what, where:** way, tramping southward

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 3: Wayfarers All (the Sea Rat from Constantinople)» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (direction), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:058-willows-ch9-part3-the-sea-rat.lesson:13
# text = Upalong in that direction» (upalong = up that way, in country talk), and now is «tramping southward, following the old call, back to the old life».
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 058-willows-ch9-part3-the-sea-rat.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Upalong	upalong	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:advmod
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	direction	direction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
5	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
6	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	7	punct	_	_
7	upalong	upalong	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl:relcl	_	_
8	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	9	punct	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
10	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	_
16	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	15	punct	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
19	now	now	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
21	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct
22	tramping	tramping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	southward	southward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	following	follow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	call	call	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	back	back	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
35	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	appos	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **upalong up** *in a quote* | infinitive | that direction and tramping southward and the old call *not said here* | that way |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | tramping southward and the old call |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «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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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:books:058-willows-ch9-part3-the-sea-rat.lesson:13`.

**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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