--- title: XVIII. a Temperance Reformer — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · full text with trees description: XVIII. a Temperance Reformer, «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: "Yer come Uncle Remus," said a well-dressed negro, who was standing on the sidewalk near James's bank recently, talkin --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/64/) [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/) / XVIII. a Temperance Reformer # XVIII. a Temperance Reformer XVIII. a Temperance Reformer of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris: the whole text, 23 sentences and 292 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/pg2306/64/1/) — "Yer come Uncle Remus," said a well-dressed negro, who was standing on the sidewalk near James's bank recently, talking to a crowd of barbers. " - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/64/2/) — Yer come Uncle Remus. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/64/3/) — I boun' he'll sign it." - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/64/4/) — "You'll fling yo' money away ef you bet on it," responded Uncle Remus. " - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/64/5/) — I ain't turnin' nothin' loose on chu'ch 'scriptions. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/64/6/) — I wants money right now fer ter git a pint er meal." - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/64/7/) — 'Tain't dat." - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/64/8/) — "An' I ain't heppin fer ter berry nobody. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/64/9/) — Much's I kin do ter keep de bref in my own body." - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/64/10/) — "'Tain't dat, nudder." - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/64/11/) — "An' I ain't puttin' my han' ter no reckommends. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/64/12/) — I'm fear'd fer ter say a perlite wud 'bout myself, an' I des know I ain't gwine 'roun' flatter'n up deze udder niggers." - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/64/13/) — "An' 'tain't dat," responded the darkey, who held a paper in his hand. " - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/64/14/) — We er gittin' up a Good Tempeler's lodge, an' we like ter git yo' name." - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/64/15/) — "Eh-eh, honey! - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/64/16/) — I done see too much er dis nigger tempunce. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/64/17/) — Dey stan' up mighty squar' ontwell dere dues commence ter cramp um, an' dey don't stan' de racket wuf a durn. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/64/18/) — No longer'n yistiddy I seed one er de head men er one er dese Tempeler's s'cieties totin' water fer a bar-room. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/64/19/) — He had de water in a bucket, but dey ain't no tellin' how much red licker he wuz a totin'. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/64/20/) — G'long, chile--jine yo' s'ciety an' be good ter yo'se'f. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/64/21/) — I'm a gittin' too ole. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/64/22/) — Gimme th'ee er fo' drams endurin' er de day, an' I'm mighty nigh ez good a tempunce man ez de next un. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/64/23/) — I got ter scuffle fer sump'n t'eat." - ← previous: [XVII. As to Education](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/63/) - next →: [XIX. As a Weather Prophet](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/65/) - ↑ back to [Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/)