--- title: XVII. As to Education — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · full text with trees description: XVII. As to Education, «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: As Uncle Remus came up Whitehall Street recently, he met a little colored boy carrying a slate and a number of books. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/63/) [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/) / XVII. As to Education # XVII. As to Education XVII. As to Education of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris: the whole text, 24 sentences and 327 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/pg2306/63/1/) — As Uncle Remus came up Whitehall Street recently, he met a little colored boy carrying a slate and a number of books. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/63/2/) — Some words passed between them, but their exact purport will probably never be known. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/63/3/) — They were unpleasant, for the attention of a wandering policeman was called to the matter by hearing the old man bawl out: - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/63/4/) — "Don't you come foolin' longer me, nigger. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/63/5/) — You er flippin' yo' sass at de wrong color. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/63/6/) — You k'n go roun' yer an' sass deze w'ite people, an' maybe dey'll stan' it, but w'en you come a-slingin' yo' jaw at a man w'at wuz gray w'en de fahmin' days gin out, you better go an' git yo' hide greased." - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/63/7/) — "What's the matter, old man?" asked a sympathizing policeman. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/63/8/) — "Nothin', boss, 'ceppin I ain't gwineter hav' no nigger chillun a hoopin' an' a hollerin' at me w'en I'm gwine long de streets." - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/63/9/) — "Oh, well, school-children--you know how they are. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/63/10/) — "Dat's w'at make I say w'at I duz. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/63/11/) — Dey better be home pickin' up chips. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/63/12/) — W'at a nigger gwineter larn outen books? - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/63/13/) — I kin take a bar'l stave an' fling mo' sense inter a nigger in one minnit dan all de schoolhouses betwixt dis en de State er Midgigin. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/63/14/) — Don't talk, honey! - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/63/15/) — Wid one bar'l stave I kin fa'rly lif' de vail er ignunce." - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/63/16/) — "Then you don't believe in education?" - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/63/17/) — "Hit's de ruinashun er dis country. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/63/18/) — Look at my gal. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/63/19/) — De ole 'oman sont 'er ter school las' year, an' now we dassent hardly ax 'er fer ter kyar de washin' home. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/63/20/) — She done got beyant 'er bizness. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/63/21/) — I ain't larnt nuthin' in books, 'en yit I kin count all de money I gits. — checked by a teacher - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/63/22/) — No use talkin', boss. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/63/23/) — Put a spellin'-book in a nigger's han's, en right den en dar' you loozes a plow-hand. - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/63/24/) — I done had de speunce un it." - ← previous: [XVI. Uncle Remus Preaches to a Convert](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/62/) - next →: [XVIII. a Temperance Reformer](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/64/) - ↑ back to [Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/)