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title: V. a Confession — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · full text with trees
description: V. a Confession, «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: "W'AT'S dis yer I see, great big niggers gwine 'lopin' 'roun' town wid cakes 'n pies fer ter sell?" asked Uncle Remus recently, in 
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# V. a Confession

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V. a Confession of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris: the whole text, 14 sentences and 294 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/pg2306/51/1/) — "W'AT'S dis yer I see, great big niggers gwine 'lopin' 'roun' town wid cakes 'n pies fer ter sell?" asked Uncle Remus recently, in his most scornful tone.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/51/2/) — "That's what they are doing," responded a young man; "that's the way they make a living."
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/51/3/) — "Dat w'at make I say w'at I duz--dat w'at keep me grum'lin' w'en I goes in cullud fokes s'ciety.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/51/4/) — Some niggers ain't gwine ter wuk nohow, an' hit's flingin' way time fer ter set enny chain-gang traps fer ter ketch um."
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/51/5/) — "Well, now, here!" exclaimed the young man, in a dramatic tone, "what are you giving us now?
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/51/6/) — Isn't it just as honest and just as regular to sell pies as it is to do any other kind of work?"
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/51/7/) — "'Tain't dat, boss:' said the old man, seeing that he was about to be cornered; 'tain't dat.
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/51/8/) — Hit's de nas'ness un it w'at gits me."
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/51/9/) — "Oh, get out!"
- [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/51/10/) — "Dat's me, boss, up an' down.
- [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/51/11/) — Ef dere's ruinashun ennywhar in de known wurril, she goes in de comp'ny uv a hongry nigger w'at's a totin' pies 'roun.'
- [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/51/12/) — Sometimes w'en I git kotch wid emptiness in de pit er de stummuck, an' git ter fairly honin' arter sumpin' w'at got substance in it, den hit look like unto me dat I kin stan' flat-footed an' make more cle'r money eatin' pies dan I could if I wuz ter sell de las' one 'twixt dis an' Chris'mus.
- [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/51/13/) — An' de nigger w'at k'n trapes 'round wid pies and not git in no alley-way an' sample um, den I'm bleedzd ter say dat nigger out- niggers me an' my fambly.
- [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/51/14/) — So dar now!"

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