Minding the little ones: «you're the oldest», sentence 29
«I'm fixin' to cry,» she thinks («fixin' to» is Southern US for «about to»).
Who acts: mam, fixin · What happens: fix, cry, think, be · To what, where: Southern US · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Minding the little ones: «you're the oldest»» of the everyday 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 (mam, fixin), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 fixin | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 fixin | nsubj |
| 3 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 fixin | aux |
| 4 | fixin | fix | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 thinks | ccomp |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 fixin | punct |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 cry | mark |
| 7 | cry | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 fixin | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 fixin | punct |
| 9 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 fixin | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 thinks | nsubj |
| 11 | thinks | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 20 US | punct |
| 13 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 14 fixin | punct |
| 14 | fixin | fixin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 US | nsubj |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 fixin | punct |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 fixin | flat |
| 17 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 14 fixin | punct |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 US | cop |
| 19 | Southern | southern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 US | amod |
| 20 | US | US | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 thinks | ccomp |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 to | case |
| 22 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 24 to | punct |
| 23 | about | about | ADV | _ | 24 to | advmod |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 US | obl |
| 25 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 24 to | punct |
| 26 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 20 US | punct |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 thinks | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fix in a quote | present · progressive | mam | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | cry speech: express in a quote | to-infinitive | mam not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | present | mam | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | fixin | Southern US | tree rules |
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.
Licence: CC 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:everyday:502-minding-the-little-ones-youre-the-oldest.lesson:29.
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, R7-rel-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.
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