1. a Plantation Chant
a Plantation Chant of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris: the whole text, 10 sentences and 328 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself.
1 Hit's eighteen hunder'd forty-en-fo', Christ done open dat He'v'mly do'-- An' I don't wanter stay yer no longer; Hit's eighteen hunder'd forty-en-five, Christ done made dat dead man alive-- An' I don't wanter stay yer no longer. 2 You ax me ter run home, Little childun-- Run home, dat sun done roll-- An' I don't wanter stay yer no longer. 3 Hit's eighteen hunder'd forty-en-six, Christ is got us a place done fix-- An' I don't wanter stay yer no longer; Hit's eighteen hunder'd forty-en-sev'm Christ done sot a table in Hev'm An' I don't wanter stay yer no longer. 4 You ax me ter run home, Little childun-- Run home, dat sun done roll-- An' I don't wanter stay yer no longer. 5 Hit's eighteen hunder'd forty-en-eight, Christ done make dat crooked way straight-- An' I don't wanter stay yer no longer; Hit's eighteen hunder'd forty-en-nine, Christ done tu'n dat water inter wine-- An' I don't wanter stay yer no longer. 6 You ax me ter run home, Little childun-- Run home, dat sun done roll-- An' I don't wanter stay yer no longer. 7 Hit's eighteen hunder'd forty-en-ten, Christ is de mo'ner's onliest fr'en'-- An' I don't wanter stay yer no longer; Hit's eighteen hunder'd forty-en-lev'm, Christ 'll be at de do' w'en we all git ter Hev'm-- An' I don't wanter stay yer no longer. 8 You ax me ter run home, Little childun-- Run home, dat sun done roll-- An' I don't wanter stay yer no longer. 9 *1 If these are adaptations from songs the negroes have caught from the whites, their origin is very remote. 10 I have transcribed them literally, and I regard them as in the highest degree characteristic. ← previous III. Corn-shucking Songnext → 2.a Plantation Serenade↑ back to Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/42/