--- title: I. Jeems Rober'son's Last Illness — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · full text with trees description: I. Jeems Rober'son's Last Illness, «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: A Jonesboro negro, while waiting for the train to go out, met up with Uncle Remus. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/47/) [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/) / I. Jeems Rober'son's Last Illness # I. Jeems Rober'son's Last Illness I. Jeems Rober'son's Last Illness of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris: the whole text, 20 sentences and 341 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/pg2306/47/1/) — A Jonesboro negro, while waiting for the train to go out, met up with Uncle Remus. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/47/2/) — After the usual "time of day" had been passed between the two, the former inquired about an acquaintance. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/47/3/) — "How's Jeems Rober'son?" he asked. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/47/4/) — "Ain't you year 'bout Jim?" asked Uncle Remus. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/47/5/) — "Dat I ain't," responded the other; "I ain't hear talk er Jem sence he cut loose fum de chain-gang. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/47/6/) — Dat w'at make I ax. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/47/7/) — He ain't down wid de biliousness, is he?" - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/47/8/) — "Not dat I knows un," responded Uncle Remus, gravely. " - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/47/9/) — He ain't sick, an' he ain't bin sick. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/47/10/) — He des tuck'n say he wuz gwineter ride dat ar roan mule er Mars John's de udder Sunday, an' de mule, she up'n do like she got nudder ingagement. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/47/11/) — I done bin fool wid dat mule befo', an' I tuck'n tole Jim dat he better not git tangle up wid 'er; but Jim, he up'n 'low dat he wuz a hoss- doctor, an' wid dat he ax me fer a chaw terbacker, en den he got de bridle, en tuck'n kotch de mule en got on her--Well," continued Uncle Remus, looking uneasily around, "I speck you better go git yo' ticket. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/47/12/) — Dey tells me dish yer train goes a callyhootin'." - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/47/13/) — "Hol' on dar, Uncle Remus; you ain't tell me 'bout Jim," exclaimed the Jonesboro negro. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/47/14/) — "I done tell you all I knows, chile. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/47/15/) — Jim, he tuck'n light on de mule, an' de mule she up'n hump 'erse'f, an den dey wuz a skuffle, an' w'en de dus' blow 'way, dar lay de nigger on de groun', an' de mule she stood eatin' at de troff wid wunner Jim's gallusses wrop 'roun' her behime-leg. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/47/16/) — Den atterwuds, de ker'ner, he come 'roun', an' he tuck'n gin it out dat Jim died sorter accidental like. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/47/17/) — Hit's des like I tell you: de nigger wern't sick a minnit. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/47/18/) — So long! - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/47/19/) — Bimeby you won't ketch yo' train. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/47/20/) — I got ter be knockin' long." - ← previous: [A Story of the War](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/46/) - next →: [II. Uncle Remus's Church Experience](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/48/) - ↑ back to [Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/)