JesseMarkowitzandClaude Opus 5.5
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Fourteen corpora split and classified: aesop, bierce, chekhov, holmes, keefe, lawson, lorimer, maupassant, nobody, plaintales, poe, torchy, wallingford and winesburg, each with its splitter and the hand-written groups and pages; catalogue v2 and v3; and the shared splitters gutenberg_chunks.py, se_split.py and se_build.py. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019rwKTmug58sEsJ72AuWsEi
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{
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"chunk": 0,
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"story": 0,
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"summary": "A Union soldier lies asleep at his post in a clump of laurel on a cliff-top above a valley, a crime for which the lawful penalty is death.",
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"predicament": "Someone trusted to keep watch has fallen asleep at the post, where being found out would cost them their life."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 1,
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"story": 0,
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"summary": "Five regiments lie hidden in the valley below, meaning to climb past the sleeping sentinel at nightfall and surprise the enemy camp; if they are seen, they are trapped.",
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"predicament": "A whole company's plan depends on staying unseen, and one careless lookout could give every one of them away."
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},
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"chunk": 2,
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"summary": "The sentinel, only son of a wealthy Virginian family, had told his father he was joining the Union; the father called him a traitor, told him to do his duty, and asked him not to disturb his dying mother.",
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"predicament": "A son tells his father he is going over to the other side, and is told coldly to do his duty."
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},
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"chunk": 3,
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"story": 0,
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"summary": "He left home, proved himself brave and was picked for this dangerous outpost, but fatigue beat him; now something wakes him and he grips his rifle.",
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"predicament": "Someone who left home to prove their worth wakes suddenly at a dangerous post, having failed the trust placed in them."
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},
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"chunk": 4,
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"story": 0,
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"summary": "He sees on the cliff edge a Confederate horseman, motionless as a statue, looking down into the valley where the regiments hide.",
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"predicament": "Someone on watch sees an enemy standing in plain view, looking straight down at the comrades they are meant to protect."
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},
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"chunk": 5,
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"summary": "He aims at the horseman's breast, but the rider turns and seems to look into his eyes; the young soldier shakes, turns faint and drops his face to the leaves.",
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"predicament": "Someone who must kill a stranger to protect their comrades is overcome by horror at the very moment of doing it."
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},
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"chunk": 6,
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"summary": "Recovering, he tells himself the rider may have seen nothing and may ride away, then sees an escort watering horses in plain view in the meadow below; the secret is out.",
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"predicament": "Someone hoping they will not have to kill sees proof that the other already knows the secret that endangers everyone."
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},
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"chunk": 7,
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"story": 0,
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"summary": "Recalling his father's parting words about duty, he aims at the horse instead and fires calmly; below, an officer looks up and sees a horseman riding down through the air.",
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"predicament": "Someone forced to choose between duty and the life of a person they love remembers a parent's words, and fires."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 8,
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"story": 0,
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"summary": "The officer watches horse and rider fall, collapses with terror, then searches for the body in the wrong place and returns to camp.",
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"predicament": "Someone who has just seen something impossible is too shaken to make sense of it, and searches in the wrong place."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 9,
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"story": 0,
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"summary": "The officer, knowing better than to tell an incredible truth, says nothing of it; the sentinel tells a sergeant he shot a horse off the rock, and that the rider was his father.",
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"predicament": "Someone who has killed their own parent in the line of duty is ordered to report it, and answers without emotion."
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}
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]
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