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Universal Dependencies - English - LinES
| Language | English |
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| Project | LinES |
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| Corpus Part | test |
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| Annotation | Ahrenberg, Lars |
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Only here the dwellings were gone too.
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Only here the dwellings were gone too.
Still I passed through several abandoned villages.
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Still I passed through several abandoned villages.
There's something pathetically childish in the ruins of grass walls.
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There's something pathetically childish in the ruins of grass walls.
Day after day, with the stamp and shuffle of sixty pair of bare feet behind me, each pair under a 60-lb. load.
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Day after day, with the stamp and shuffle of sixty pair of bare feet behind me, each pair under a 60-lb. load.
Camp, cook, sleep, strike camp, march.
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Camp, cook, sleep, strike camp, march.
Now and then a carrier dead in harness, at rest in the long grass near the path, with an empty water-gourd and his long staff lying by his side.
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Now and then a carrier dead in harness, at rest in the long grass near the path, with an empty water-gourd and his long staff lying by his side.
A great silence around and above.
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A great silence around and above.
Perhaps on some quiet night the tremor of far-off drums, sinking, swelling, a tremor vast, faint; a sound weird, appealing, suggestive, and wild – and perhaps with as profound a meaning as the sound of bells in a Christian country.
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Perhaps on some quiet night the tremor of far-off drums, sinking, swelling, a tremor vast, faint; a sound weird, appealing, suggestive, and wild – and perhaps with as profound a meaning as the sound of bells in a Christian country.
Once a white man in an unbuttoned uniform, camping on the path with an armed escort of lank Zanzibaris, very hospitable and festive – not to say drunk.
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Once a white man in an unbuttoned uniform, camping on the path with an armed escort of lank Zanzibaris, very hospitable and festive – not to say drunk.
Was looking after the upkeep of the road, he declared.
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Was looking after the upkeep of the road, he declared.
Can't say I saw any road or any upkeep, unless the body of a middle-aged negro, with a bullet-hole in the forehead, upon which I absolutely stumbled three miles farther on, may be considered as a permanent improvement.
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Can't say I saw any road or any upkeep, unless the body of a middle-aged negro, with a bullet-hole in the forehead, upon which I absolutely stumbled three miles farther on, may be considered as a permanent improvement.
I had a white companion too, not a bad chap, but rather too fleshy and with the exasperating habit of fainting on the hot hillsides, miles away from the least bit of shade and water.
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I had a white companion too, not a bad chap, but rather too fleshy and with the exasperating habit of fainting on the hot hillsides, miles away from the least bit of shade and water.
Annoying, you know, to hold your own coat like a parasol over a man's head while he is coming-to.
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Annoying, you know, to hold your own coat like a parasol over a man's head while he is coming-to.
I couldn't help asking him once what he meant by coming there at all.
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I couldn't help asking him once what he meant by coming there at all.
'To make money, of course.'
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'To make money, of course.'
What do you think? he said, scornfully.
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What do you think? he said, scornfully.
Then he got fever, and had to be carried in a hammock slung under a pole.
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Then he got fever, and had to be carried in a hammock slung under a pole.
As he weighed sixteen stone I had no end of rows with the carriers.
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As he weighed sixteen stone I had no end of rows with the carriers.
They jibbed, ran away, sneaked off with their loads in the night – quite a mutiny.
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They jibbed, ran away, sneaked off with their loads in the night – quite a mutiny.
So, one evening, I made a speech in English with gestures, not one of which was lost to the sixty pairs of eyes before me, and the next morning I started the hammock off in front all right.
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So, one evening, I made a speech in English with gestures, not one of which was lost to the sixty pairs of eyes before me, and the next morning I started the hammock off in front all right.
An hour afterwards I came upon the whole concern wrecked in a bush – man, hammock, groans, blankets, horrors.
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An hour afterwards I came upon the whole concern wrecked in a bush – man, hammock, groans, blankets, horrors.
The heavy pole had skinned his poor nose.
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The heavy pole had skinned his poor nose.
He was very anxious for me to kill somebody, but there wasn't the shadow of a carrier near.
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He was very anxious for me to kill somebody, but there wasn't the shadow of a carrier near.
I remembered the old doctor, – 'It would be interesting for science to watch the mental changes of individuals, on the spot.
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I remembered the old doctor, – 'It would be interesting for science to watch the mental changes of individuals, on the spot.
I felt I was becoming scientifically interesting.
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I felt I was becoming scientifically interesting.
However, all that is to no purpose.
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However, all that is to no purpose.
On the fifteenth day I came in sight of the big river again, and hobbled into the Central Station.
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On the fifteenth day I came in sight of the big river again, and hobbled into the Central Station.
It was on a back water surrounded by scrub and forest, with a pretty border of smelly mud on one side, and on the three others inclosed by a crazy fence of rushes. A neglected gap was all the gate it had,
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It was on a back water surrounded by scrub and forest, with a pretty border of smelly mud on one side, and on the three others inclosed by a crazy fence of rushes. A neglected gap was all the gate it had,
and the first glance at the place was enough to let you see the flabby devil was running that show.
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and the first glance at the place was enough to let you see the flabby devil was running that show.
White men with long staves in their hands appeared languidly from amongst the buildings, strolling up to take a look at me, and then retired out of sight somewhere.
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White men with long staves in their hands appeared languidly from amongst the buildings, strolling up to take a look at me, and then retired out of sight somewhere.
One of them, a stout, excitable chap with black mustaches, informed me with great volubility and many digressions, as soon as I told him who I was, that my steamer was at the bottom of the river.
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One of them, a stout, excitable chap with black mustaches, informed me with great volubility and many digressions, as soon as I told him who I was, that my steamer was at the bottom of the river.
I was thunderstruck.
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I was thunderstruck.
What, how, why?
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What, how, why?
Oh, it was all right.
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Oh, it was all right.
The manager himself was there.
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The manager himself was there.
All quite correct.
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All quite correct.
'Everybody had behaved splendidly! splendidly!
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'Everybody had behaved splendidly! splendidly!
– 'you must,' he said in agitation, 'go and see the general manager at once.
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– 'you must,' he said in agitation, 'go and see the general manager at once.
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