Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVII. Why Mr. Possum Has No Hair on His Tail, sentence 28

"Law, honey! ain't you done gone en fergot dat off'n yo' mine yit?

Who acts: you · What happens: not do · To what, where: gone en fergot dat

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXVII. Why Mr. Possum Has No Hair on His Tail. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Law	punct
2	Law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 honey	punct
4	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Law	conj
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Law	punct
6	ai	ai	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Law	conj
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 done	advmod
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 done	nsubj
9	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 ai	acl:relcl
10	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 dat	amod
11	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 dat	compound
12	fergot	fergot	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 dat	compound
13	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 done	obj
14	off'n	off'n	CCONJ	_	15 yo	cc
15	yo	yo	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 dat	conj
16	'	'	PUNCT	_	18 yit	punct
17	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 yit	compound
18	yit	yit	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 yo	appos
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 Law	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not do in a quote	participle	you	gone en fergot dat off'n yo					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dat=Eventuality

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.

Text: «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Project Gutenberg book 2306 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/30/28/