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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"chunk": 0,
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"story": 0,
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"summary": "A worn-out peasant comes home through the farmyard and asks after his wife's dying father; she says the priest expects him to die before morning.",
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"predicament": "A worn-out couple learn the old relative they keep will not last the night, just as the busy season presses."
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},
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"chunk": 1,
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"summary": "At the old man's bedside the son-in-law complains that the death comes in good working weather, and the couple reckon how many hours the funeral invitations will cost.",
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"predicament": "A couple at a dying relative's bedside think mainly of the working days his death and burial will cost them."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 2,
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"summary": "The wife suggests he start inviting mourners now and say the old man is already dead; he agrees, tells her to bake dumplings for the guests, and eats his bread without wasting a crumb.",
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"predicament": "To save a day's work, a couple decide to announce a relative's death before it has actually happened."
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},
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"chunk": 3,
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"summary": "She tells a passing neighbour the funeral is fixed for Saturday, bakes forty-eight dumplings, and finds her father still rattling whenever she looks in; her husband comes home asking if it is over.",
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"predicament": "Having told the neighbours a relative is dead, a woman keeps checking and finds him stubbornly still alive."
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},
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"chunk": 4,
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"story": 0,
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"summary": "The couple sleep beside the dying man; at dawn he is still alive, and the wife reassures her husband that the authorities will let them bury him on schedule, as they did for a neighbour.",
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"predicament": "A couple who announced a death too early reassure each other that the authorities will bend the rules for them."
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"chunk": 5,
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"story": 0,
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"summary": "The old man lingers; the couple get the mayor and the health officer to agree to backdate the death, but the next morning he still breathes as the black-clad mourners arrive.",
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"predicament": "A couple who talked obliging officials into bending the rules face arriving mourners with the dying relative still breathing."
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},
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"chunk": 6,
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"summary": "The couple burst into tears, make excuses to every guest and hold back those who want to leave by offering the dumplings, which cheer the crowd up.",
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"predicament": "A couple who summoned mourners too early must explain the embarrassing mistake and keep the guests from leaving offended."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 7,
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"story": 0,
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"summary": "The old man dies in the middle of the feast; the couple are relieved, and the wife's only grief is that she must bake four dozen more dumplings for the real funeral.",
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"predicament": "A couple whose relative finally dies at the worst moment regret only the extra food and expense it costs them."
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}
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]
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