--- title: XIII. His Practical View of Things — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · full text with trees description: XIII. His Practical View of Things, «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: "BRER REMUS, is you heern tell er deze doin's out yer in de udder eend er town?" asked a colored deacon of the c --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/59/) [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/) / XIII. His Practical View of Things # XIII. His Practical View of Things XIII. His Practical View of Things of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris: the whole text, 28 sentences and 546 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/pg2306/59/1/) — "BRER REMUS, is you heern tell er deze doin's out yer in de udder eend er town?" asked a colored deacon of the church the other day. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/59/2/) — "W'at doin's is dat, Brer Ab?" - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/59/3/) — "Deze yer signs an' wunders whar dat cullud lady died day 'fo' yistiddy. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/59/4/) — Mighty quare goin's on out dar, Brer Remus, sho's you bawn." - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/59/5/) — "Sperrits?" inquired Uncle Remus, sententiously. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/59/6/) — "Wuss'n dat, Brer Remus. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/59/7/) — Some say dat jedgment day ain't fur off, an' de folks is flockin' 'roun' de house a hollerin' an' a- shoutin' des like dey wuz in er revival. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/59/8/) — In de winder glass dar you kin see de flags a flyin', an' Jacob's lather is dar, an' dar's writin' on de pane w'at no man can't read--leas'wise dey ain't none read it yit." - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/59/9/) — "W'at kinder racket is dis you er givin' un me now, Brer Ab?" - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/59/10/) — "I done bin dar, Brer Remus; I done seed um wid bofe my eyes. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/59/11/) — Cullud lady what wuz intranced done woke up an' say dey ain't much time fer ter tarry. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/59/12/) — She say she meet er angel in de road, an' he p'inted straight fer de mornin' star, an' tell her fer ter prepar'. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/59/13/) — Hit look mighty cu'us, Brer Remus." - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/59/14/) — "Cum down ter dat, Brer Ab," said Uncle Remus, wiping his spectacles carefully, and readjusting them--"cum down ter dat, an' dey ain't nuthin' dat ain't cu'us. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/59/15/) — I ain't no spishus nigger myse'f, but I 'spizes fer ter year dogs a howlin' an' squinch- owls havin' de agur out in de woods, an' w'en a bull goes a bellerin' by de house den my bones git col' an' my flesh commences fer ter creep; but w'en it comes ter deze yer sines in de a'r an' deze yer sperrits in de woods, den I'm out--den I'm done. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/59/16/) — I is, fer a fack. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/59/17/) — I bin livin' yer more'n seventy year, an' I year talk er niggers seein' ghos'es all times er night an' all times er day, but I ain't never seed none yit; an' deze yer flags an' Jacob's lathers, I ain't seed dem, nudder." - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/59/18/) — "Dey er dar, Brer Remus." - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/59/19/) — "Hit's des like I tell you, Brer Ab. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/59/20/) — I ain't 'sputin' 'bout it, but I ain't seed um, an' I don't take no chances deze days on dat w'at I don't see, an' dat w'at I sees I got ter 'zamine mighty close. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/59/21/) — Lemme tell you dis, Brer Ab: don't you let deze sines onsettle you. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/59/22/) — W'en old man Gabrile toot his ho'n, he ain't gwineter hang no sine out in de winder-panes, an when ole Fadder Jacob lets down dat lather er his'n you'll be mighty ap' fer ter hear de racket. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/59/23/) — An' don't you bodder wid jedgment-day. - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/59/24/) — Jedgment- day is lierbul fer ter take keer un itse'f." - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/59/25/) — "Dat's so, Brer Remus." - [26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/59/26/) — "Hit's bleedzed ter be so, Brer Ab. - [27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/59/27/) — Hit don't bodder me. - [28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/59/28/) — Hit's done got so now dat w'en I gotter pone er bread, an' a rasher er bacon, an' nuff grease fer ter make gravy, I ain't keerin' much w'edder fokes sees ghos'es er no." - ← previous: [XII. As a Murderer](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/58/) - next →: [XIV. That Deceitful Jug](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/60/) - ↑ back to [Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/)