--- title: «I'm fixin' to cry,» she thinks («fixin' to» is Southern US for «abo… — Minding the little ones: «you're the oldest» · tree and pragmatics description: «I'm fixin' to cry,» she thinks («fixin' to» is Southern US for «about to»). Who acts: mam, fixin. A sentence of the lesson «Minding the little ones: «you're the oldest»» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/502-minding-the-little-ones-youre-the-oldest/29/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Minding the little ones: «you're the o…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/502-minding-the-little-ones-youre-the-oldest/) / 29 # 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:502-minding-the-little-ones-youre-the-oldest.lesson:29 # text = «I'm fixin' to cry,» she thinks («fixin' to» is Southern US for «about to»). # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 502-minding-the-little-ones-youre-the-oldest.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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ _ 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 fixin fix VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 ccomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 5 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 cry cry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 9 » » PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 10 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 thinks think VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:parataxis 12 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 20 punct _ _ 13 « « PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ _ 14 fixin fixin NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 15 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 14 flat _ _ 17 » » PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 19 Southern southern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 US US PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:parataxis 21 for for ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 « « PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ _ 23 about about ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 to to ADP IN _ 20 obl _ _ 25 » » PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ _ 26 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 20 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct 27 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#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](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: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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