batch.motif.greek-aesop-fables-vernon-jones-gutenberg-l1484-l1507
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record_id: batch.motif.greek-aesop-fables-vernon-jones-gutenberg-l1484-l1507
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/aesops-fables-vernon-jones.md
passage_locator:
label: THE ASS AND THE LAP-DOG / THE FIR-TREE AND THE BRAMBLE / THE FROGS' COMPLAINT
AGAINST THE SUN / THE DOG, THE COCK, AND THE FOX; lines 1484-1507
start: '1484'
end: '1507'
translation: Aesop's Fables; a new translation
notes: Generated from OpenAI Batch run motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority;
human review required.
canonical_text:
quote: ''
summary: In one fable, the Frogs fear that the Sun's marriage and offspring would
intensify the drying of their marshes, and they complain noisily until Jupiter
asks the cause. In another, a Dog and Cock travel together; the Cock roosts in
a tree while the Dog sleeps in its hollow trunk. A Fox tries to lure the Cock
down, but the Cock directs him to the Dog, who rushes out and kills him.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: The Sun is about to take a wife.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: The Frogs raise their voices in terror, and Jupiter asks what they are croaking
about.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:3
text: The Frogs say the single Sun already dries up their marshes with heat and
ask what will happen if he has other Suns.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:4
text: A Dog and a Cock become friends and agree to travel together.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:5
text: At night, the Cock roosts in the branches of a tree while the Dog sleeps inside
its hollow trunk.
category: setting
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:6
text: At daybreak, the Cock crows; a Fox hears and wants to eat him.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:7
text: The Fox praises the Cock's voice and asks him to come down from the tree.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:8
text: The Cock tells the Fox to wake his porter at the foot of the tree so the porter
can open the door and let him in.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: obs:9
text: When the Fox raps on the trunk, the Dog rushes out and tears him in pieces.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: Sun
description: Celestial figure who is about to take a wife and is said by the Frogs
to dry their marshes with heat.
role_refs:
- role:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: Frogs
description: Frightened marsh-dwellers who complain that the Sun's possible offspring
would threaten them.
role_refs:
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: Jupiter
description: Divine figure disturbed by the Frogs' noise who asks what they are
croaking about.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: Dog
description: Friend and traveling companion of the Cock; sleeps in the hollow trunk
and kills the Fox.
role_refs:
- role:4
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:9
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: Cock
description: Friend and traveling companion of the Dog; roosts in a tree, crows
at daybreak, and redirects the Fox to the Dog.
role_refs:
- role:4
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:6
- ev:8
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: Fox
description: Predator who wants to eat the Cock, tries to lure him down, and is
killed by the Dog.
role_refs:
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:7
- ev:9
roles:
- id: role:1
label: threatening celestial bridegroom
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: The Sun is about to take a wife, and the Frogs fear his heat and possible
offspring.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- id: role:2
label: fearful complainants
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: The Frogs raise their voices in terror and explain their fear to Jupiter.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- id: role:3
label: questioning divine hearer
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: Jupiter is disturbed by the Frogs' noise and asks what they are croaking
about.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: role:4
label: traveling companions
assigned_to:
- fig:4
- fig:5
basis: The Dog and Cock become friends and agree to travel together.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: role:5
label: hidden defender
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: The Dog sleeps inside the hollow trunk and rushes out when the Fox knocks.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:9
- id: role:6
label: clever intended prey
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: The Cock is the Fox's intended breakfast but sends the Fox to wake the Dog.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:8
- id: role:7
label: deceptive predator
assigned_to:
- fig:6
basis: The Fox wants to eat the Cock and uses praise to try to lure him down.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:7
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: Sun and multiplying Suns
literal_form: The Sun as a heat-giving celestial figure, with feared offspring described
as other Suns.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- id: sym:2
label: marshes dried by heat
literal_form: Frogs' marshes threatened by the Sun's drying heat.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs:
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: sym:3
label: tree refuge
literal_form: A tree with branches for the Cock and a hollow trunk for the Dog.
associated_figures:
- fig:4
- fig:5
- fig:6
taxonomy_refs:
- tree
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:8
- ev:9
- id: sym:4
label: hollow trunk doorway
literal_form: The hollow trunk is treated as a place with a porter, a door, and
an entrance.
associated_figures:
- fig:4
- fig:5
- fig:6
taxonomy_refs:
- tree
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:8
- ev:9
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Frogs complain against the Sun
summary: The Sun is about to marry; the Frogs, afraid that the Sun already dries
their marshes and might produce other Suns, cry out until Jupiter asks about their
noise.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:3
- id: scene:2
label: Companions lodge in a tree
summary: A Dog and Cock travel together and spend the night at a tree, with the
Cock in the branches and the Dog in the hollow trunk.
figure_refs:
- fig:4
- fig:5
symbol_refs:
- sym:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
- id: scene:3
label: Fox lured to the hidden Dog
summary: The Fox hears the Cock crow, tries to lure him down with praise, follows
the Cock's instruction to knock on the trunk, and is killed by the Dog.
figure_refs:
- fig:4
- fig:5
- fig:6
symbol_refs:
- sym:3
- sym:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:7
- ev:8
- ev:9
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: fear of multiplied destructive heat
taxonomy_refs:
- world_destroying_fire
basis: The Frogs fear that additional Suns born from the Sun's marriage would worsen
the drying heat that already threatens their marshes.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage concerns solar heat drying marshes, not literal fire or full
world destruction; taxonomy fit is approximate.
- id: motif:2
label: clever prey redirects predator to hidden ally
taxonomy_refs:
- trickster_boundary
- wisdom
basis: The Cock avoids the Fox's lure by directing him to the Dog hidden in the
tree trunk, resulting in the Fox's death.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:7
- ev:8
- ev:9
confidence: high
cautions: The Cock is not explicitly labeled a trickster; the role is inferred from
the action.
- id: motif:3
label: tree as shared shelter and trap threshold
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: The tree shelters both companions and becomes the threshold through which
the Fox encounters the hidden Dog.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:8
- ev:9
confidence: medium
cautions: The tree is functional rather than explicitly sacred or cosmological.
comparison_claims: []
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: lines 1484-1487
quote_or_summary: The Sun is about to take a wife.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/aesops-fables-vernon-jones.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:2
type: summary
locator: lines 1486-1488
quote_or_summary: The Frogs cry out in terror; Jupiter, disturbed by the noise,
asks what they are croaking about.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/aesops-fables-vernon-jones.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:3
type: quote
locator: lines 1489-1492
quote_or_summary: '"The Sun is bad enough even while he is single, drying up our
marshes with his heat... But what will become of us if he marries and begets other
Suns?"'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/aesops-fables-vernon-jones.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short quotation.
- id: ev:4
type: summary
locator: lines 1496-1497
quote_or_summary: A Dog and a Cock become close friends and agree to travel together.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/aesops-fables-vernon-jones.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:5
type: summary
locator: lines 1497-1499
quote_or_summary: At nightfall the Cock roosts in the branches of a tree, while
the Dog sleeps inside its hollow trunk.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/aesops-fables-vernon-jones.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:6
type: summary
locator: lines 1499-1501
quote_or_summary: At daybreak the Cock crows; a Fox hears him and wants to make
a breakfast of him.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/aesops-fables-vernon-jones.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:7
type: quote
locator: lines 1501-1503
quote_or_summary: The Fox says he would like "to make the acquaintance of one who
has such a beautiful voice."
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/aesops-fables-vernon-jones.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short quotation.
- id: ev:8
type: quote
locator: lines 1503-1506
quote_or_summary: The Cock replies, "Would you just wake my porter who sleeps at
the foot of the tree? He'll open the door and let you in."
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/aesops-fables-vernon-jones.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short quotation.
- id: ev:9
type: summary
locator: lines 1506-1507
quote_or_summary: The Fox raps on the trunk; the Dog rushes out and tears him in
pieces.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/aesops-fables-vernon-jones.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
confidence:
extraction: high
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: uncertain
notes: Literal fable actions are clear. Motif taxonomy matches are cautious, especially
for the solar-heat episode. No comparison claims are made because the passage
itself does not support comparison beyond candidate motif identification.
reviewer_status:
status: needs_review
reviewer: ''
reviewed_at: ''
notes: Machine-generated draft from OpenAI Batch; not human-reviewed.
extracted_by: openai_batch:gpt-5.5
extracted_at: '2026-04-28'
notes: |-
Only the two fables present in the supplied passage text were extracted, despite the broader locator label.
batch_run_id=motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority
custom_id=motif_extract:greek-aesop-fables-vernon-jones-gutenberg__l1484-l1507
passage_sha256=3508d02b09ebd23423cbf5c150a6bb70fe5063ab46521e26465bad34e672120b