Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Corn-shucking Song, sentence 112

Better try anudder plan; An' it's ho my Riley!

Who acts: plan · What happens: try, be · To what, where: anudder plan, ho

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, III. Corn-shucking Song. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (plan), 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	Better	better	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	2 try	aux
2	try	try	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	anudder	anudder	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 plan	compound
4	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 try	obj
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 try	punct
6	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 ho	det
7	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 ho	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 ho	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 ho	cop
10	ho	ho	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 try	parataxis
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 Riley	nmod:poss
12	Riley	Riley	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 ho	appos
13	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 try	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try			anudder plan					vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Eventuality
2	is a	present	plan	a ho					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.

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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