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title: "Fixin' to" means about to in Texas and the American South. — Accents and dialects around the world · tree and pragmatics
description: "Fixin' to" means about to in Texas and the American South. Who acts: Fixin. A sentence of the lesson «Accents and dialects around the world» of the language course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Accents and dialects around the world, sentence 15

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"Fixin' to" means about to in Texas and the American South.

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**Who acts:** Fixin · **What happens:** mean

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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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:language:019-accents-and-dialects-around-the-world.lesson:15
# text = "Fixin' to" means about to in Texas and the American South.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = language
# lesson = 019-accents-and-dialects-around-the-world.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Fixin	Fixin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	flat	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
6	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	about	about	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	fixed	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Texas	Texas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **mean** | present | Fixin |  |  |  |  | in Texas and the American South | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in texas=Attribute |

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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: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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