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title: 2.a Plantation Serenade — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · full text with trees
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# 2.a Plantation Serenade

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2.a Plantation Serenade of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris: the whole text, 7 sentences and 153 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself.

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- [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/43/1/) — DE ole bee make de honey-comb, De young bee make de honey, De niggers make de cotton en co'n, En de w'ite folks gits de money.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/43/2/) — De raccoon he's a cu'us man, He never walk twel dark, En nuthin' never 'sturbs his mine, Twel he hear ole Bringer bark.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/43/3/) — De raccoon totes a bushy tail, De 'possum totes no ha'r, Mr. Rabbit, he come skippin' by, He ain't got none ter spar'.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/43/4/) — Monday mornin' break er day, W'ite folks got me gwine, But Sat'dy night, w'en de sun goes down, Dat yaller gal's in my mine.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/43/5/) — Fifteen poun' er meat a week, W'isky for ter sell, Oh, how can a young man stay at home, Dem gals dey look so well?
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/43/6/) — Met a 'possum in de road-- Bre' 'Possum, whar you gwine?
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/43/7/) — I thank my stars, I bless my life, I'm a huntin' for de muscadine.

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