Accents and dialects around the world, sentence 15
"Fixin' to" means about to in Texas and the American South.
Who acts: Fixin · What happens: mean
This is a sentence of the lesson «Accents and dialects around the world» of the language 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 (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 | _ | 2 Fixin | punct |
| 2 | Fixin | Fixin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 means | nsubj |
| 3 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Fixin | punct |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 2 Fixin | flat |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Fixin | punct |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | about | about | ADV | _ | 10 Texas | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 about | fixed |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 Texas | case |
| 10 | Texas | Texas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 means | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 South | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 South | det |
| 13 | American | American | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 South | amod |
| 14 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Texas | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Fixin | in Texas and the American South | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in texas=Attribute |
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:language:019-accents-and-dialects-around-the-world.lesson:15.
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): 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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