Directions, latitude and longitude, sentence 10

Lines of longitude, called meridians, run from pole to pole and all meet at the poles, so one degree of longitude is about 111 km wide at the equator but shrinks to nothing at the poles; at London it is only about 69 km.

Who acts: Lines, all, one degree, longitude · What happens: call, run, meet, be, shrink · To what, where: meridians, pole, poles, 111 km, equator, 69 km · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Directions, latitude and longitude» of the geography 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 (Lines, all, one degree, longitude), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

Pragmatics

form

statement

act

assert

voice

narrator

polarity

none

teacher

kept the draft

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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