--- title: 1. a Plantation Chant — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · full text with trees description: 1. a Plantation Chant, «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: 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 eighte --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/42/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/) / 1. a Plantation Chant # 1. a Plantation Chant 1. 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/42/1/) — 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/42/2/) — You ax me ter run home, Little childun-- Run home, dat sun done roll-- An' I don't wanter stay yer no longer. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/42/3/) — 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/42/4/) — You ax me ter run home, Little childun-- Run home, dat sun done roll-- An' I don't wanter stay yer no longer. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/42/5/) — 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/42/6/) — You ax me ter run home, Little childun-- Run home, dat sun done roll-- An' I don't wanter stay yer no longer. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/42/7/) — 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/42/8/) — You ax me ter run home, Little childun-- Run home, dat sun done roll-- An' I don't wanter stay yer no longer. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/42/9/) — \*1 If these are adaptations from songs the negroes have caught from the whites, their origin is very remote. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/42/10/) — I have transcribed them literally, and I regard them as in the highest degree characteristic. - ← previous: [III. Corn-shucking Song](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/41/) - next →: [2.a Plantation Serenade](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/43/) - ↑ back to [Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/)