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Universal Dependencies - English - LinES
| Language | English |
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| Project | LinES |
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| Corpus Part | dev |
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| Annotation | Ahrenberg, Lars |
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He had just the faintest blush, and said modestly, I've been teaching one of the native women about the station.
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He had just the faintest blush, and said modestly, I've been teaching one of the native women about the station.
It was difficult. She had a distaste for the work.
s-102
en_lines-ud-dev-doc4-3675
It was difficult. She had a distaste for the work.
This man had verily accomplished something.
s-103
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This man had verily accomplished something.
And he was devoted to his books, which were in apple-pie order.
s-104
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And he was devoted to his books, which were in apple-pie order.
Everything else in the station was in a muddle, – heads, things, buildings.
s-105
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Everything else in the station was in a muddle, – heads, things, buildings.
Strings of dusty niggers with splay feet arrived and departed; a stream of manufactured goods, rubbishy cottons, beads, and brass-wire set into the depths of darkness, and in return came a precious trickle of ivory.
s-106
en_lines-ud-dev-doc4-3679
Strings of dusty niggers with splay feet arrived and departed; a stream of manufactured goods, rubbishy cottons, beads, and brass-wire set into the depths of darkness, and in return came a precious trickle of ivory.
I had to wait in the station for ten days – an eternity.
s-107
en_lines-ud-dev-doc4-3680
I had to wait in the station for ten days – an eternity.
I lived in a hut in the yard, but to be out of the chaos I would sometimes get into the accountant's office.
s-108
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I lived in a hut in the yard, but to be out of the chaos I would sometimes get into the accountant's office.
It was built of horizontal planks, and so badly put together that, as he bent over his high desk, he was barred from neck to heels with narrow strips of sunlight.
s-109
en_lines-ud-dev-doc4-3682
It was built of horizontal planks, and so badly put together that, as he bent over his high desk, he was barred from neck to heels with narrow strips of sunlight.
There was no need to open the big shutter to see.
s-110
en_lines-ud-dev-doc4-3683
There was no need to open the big shutter to see.
It was hot there too; big flies buzzed fiendishly, and did not sting, but stabbed.
s-111
en_lines-ud-dev-doc4-3684
It was hot there too; big flies buzzed fiendishly, and did not sting, but stabbed.
I sat generally on the floor, while, of faultless appearance (and even slightly scented), perching on a high stool, he wrote, he wrote.
s-112
en_lines-ud-dev-doc4-3685
I sat generally on the floor, while, of faultless appearance (and even slightly scented), perching on a high stool, he wrote, he wrote.
Sometimes he stood up for exercise.
s-113
en_lines-ud-dev-doc4-3686
Sometimes he stood up for exercise.
When a truckle-bed with a sick man (some invalided agent from up-country) was put in there, he exhibited a gentle annoyance.
s-114
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When a truckle-bed with a sick man (some invalided agent from up-country) was put in there, he exhibited a gentle annoyance.
The groans of this sick person, he said, distract my attention.
s-115
en_lines-ud-dev-doc4-3688
The groans of this sick person, he said, distract my attention.
And without that it is extremely difficult to guard against clerical errors in this climate.
s-116
en_lines-ud-dev-doc4-3689
And without that it is extremely difficult to guard against clerical errors in this climate.
One day he remarked, without lifting his head, 'In the interior you will no doubt meet Mr. Kurtz.'
s-117
en_lines-ud-dev-doc4-3690
One day he remarked, without lifting his head, 'In the interior you will no doubt meet Mr. Kurtz.'
On my asking who Mr. Kurtz was, he said he was a first-class agent; and seeing my disappointment at this information, he added slowly, laying down his pen, 'He is a very remarkable person.'
s-118
en_lines-ud-dev-doc4-3691
On my asking who Mr. Kurtz was, he said he was a first-class agent; and seeing my disappointment at this information, he added slowly, laying down his pen, 'He is a very remarkable person.'
Further questions elicited from him that Mr. Kurtz was at present in charge of a trading post, a very important one, in the true ivory-country, at 'the very bottom of there.
s-119
en_lines-ud-dev-doc4-3692
Further questions elicited from him that Mr. Kurtz was at present in charge of a trading post, a very important one, in the true ivory-country, at 'the very bottom of there.
Sends in as much ivory as all the others put together....
s-120
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Sends in as much ivory as all the others put together....
He began to write again.
s-121
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He began to write again.
The sick man was too ill to groan.
s-122
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The sick man was too ill to groan.
The flies buzzed in a great peace.
s-123
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The flies buzzed in a great peace.
Suddenly there was a growing murmur of voices and a great tramping of feet.
s-124
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Suddenly there was a growing murmur of voices and a great tramping of feet.
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