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title: "Law, honey! ain't you done gone en fergot dat off'n yo' mine yit? — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Law, honey! ain't you done gone en fergot dat off'n yo' mine yit? Who acts: you. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXVII. Why Mr. Possum Has No Hair on His Tail, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVII. Why Mr. Possum Has No Hair on His Tail, sentence 28

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

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

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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.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2306:30:28
# text = "Law, honey! ain't you done gone en fergot dat off'n yo' mine yit?
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
6	ai	ai	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl:relcl	_	_
10	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
11	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
12	fergot	fergot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
14	off'n	off'n	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	yo	yo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	_
17	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	compound	_	_
18	yit	yit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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**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.

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