--- title: X. a Case of Measles — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · full text with trees description: X. a Case of Measles, «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: "YOU'VE been looking like you were rather under the weather for the past week or two, Uncle Remus," said a gentleman to the ol --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/56/) [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/) / X. a Case of Measles # X. a Case of Measles X. a Case of Measles of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris: the whole text, 30 sentences and 471 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself; 1 of them are in the tales treebank and were checked by a teacher model. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/56/1/) — "YOU'VE been looking like you were rather under the weather for the past week or two, Uncle Remus," said a gentleman to the old man. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/56/2/) — "You'd be sorter puny, too, boss, if you'd er bin whar I bin." - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/56/3/) — "Where have you been?" - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/56/4/) — "Pear ter me like eve'ybody done year 'bout dat. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/56/5/) — Dey ain't no ole nigger my age an' size dat's had no rattliner time dan I is." - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/56/6/) — "A kind of picnic?" - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/56/7/) — "Go long, boss! w'at you speck I be doin' sailin' 'roun' ter dese yer cullud picnics? - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/56/8/) — Much mo' an' I wouldn't make bread by wukkin' fer't, let 'lone follerin' up a passel er boys an' gals all over keration. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/56/9/) — Boss, ain't you year 'bout it, sho' 'nuff?" - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/56/10/) — "I haven't, really. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/56/11/) — What was the matter?" - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/56/12/) — "I got strucken wid a sickness, an' she hit de ole nigger a joe- darter 'fo' she tu'n 'im loose." - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/56/13/) — "What kind of sickness?" - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/56/14/) — "Hit look sorter cu'ous, boss, but ole an' steddy ez I is, I tuck'n kotch de meezles." - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/56/15/) — "Oh, get out! - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/56/16/) — You are trying to get up a sensation." - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/56/17/) — "Hit's a natal fack, boss, I declar' ter grashus ef 'tain't. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/56/18/) — Dey sorter come on wid a col', like--leas'ways dat's how I commence fer ter suffer, an' den er koff got straddle er de col'--one dese yer koffs w'at look like hit goes ter de foundash'n. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/56/19/) — I kep' on linger'n' 'roun' sorter keepin' one eye on the rheumatiz an' de udder on de distemper, twel, bimeby, I begin fer ter feel de trestle-wuk give way, an' den I des know'd dat I wuz gwineter gitter racket. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/56/20/) — I slipt inter bed one Chuseday night, an' I never slip out no mo' fer mighty nigh er mont'. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/56/21/) — "Nex' mornin' de meezles 'd done kivered me, an' den ef I didn't git dosted by de ole 'oman I'm a Chinee. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/56/22/) — She gimme back rashuns er sassafac tea. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/56/23/) — I des natchully hankered an' got hongry atter water, an ev'y time I sing out fer water I got b'ilin' hot sassafac tea. - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/56/24/) — Hit got so dat w'en I wake up in de mornin' de ole 'oman 'd des come long wid a kittle er tea an' fill me up. - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/56/25/) — Dey tells me 'roun' town dat chilluns don't git hurted wid de meezles, w'ich ef dey don't I wanter be a baby de nex' time dey hits dis place. - [26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/56/26/) — All dis yer meezles bizness is bran'-new ter me. - [27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/56/27/) — In ole times, 'fo' de wah, I ain't heer tell er no seventy-fi'- year-ole nigger grapplin' wid no meezles. — checked by a teacher - [28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/56/28/) — Dey ain't ketchin' no mo', is dey, boss?" - [29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/56/29/) — "Oh, no--I suppose not." - [30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/56/30/) — "'Kase ef dey is, you k'n des put my name down wid de migrashun niggers." - ← previous: [IX. in the Role of a Tartar](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/55/) - next →: [XI. the Emigrants](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/57/) - ↑ back to [Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/)