[developers] on-line demo / simple sentence

[Woodley Packard]

As Olga pointed out, these are passive readings.  They correspond to something like:

X did a good job.
X did him.
He is done( by X).

X did his neighbor a favor.
X did his homework a favor.
? X did his homework him.
?? He is done his homework( by X).

I suspect the reading you are looking for instead involves a sense of "done" conveying completion of an unspecified event, rather than a passive variant of "do".  I’m not sure that sense is implemented in the ERG, although I can’t speak for Dan for sure on that.  I see parses with that sense when the event in question is an explicit complement of the adjective "done", e.g. for:

He is done eating.

Best,
-Woodley

> On Apr 6, 2018, at 2:36 PM, <paul at haleyai.com> <paul at haleyai.com> wrote:
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> Hi,  
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> I’m afraid I have a stupid question, but am a bit surprised at the following results (the MRS, in particular, having “he” as ARG2 or ARG3).
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> Does this look right to those of you who know more than I?  Can you help me understand the subject of the “do” predication here, if so?
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> Thank you,
> Paul
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