batch.motif.greek-aesop-fables-vernon-jones-gutenberg-l302-l340
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record_id: batch.motif.greek-aesop-fables-vernon-jones-gutenberg-l302-l340
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/aesops-fables-vernon-jones.md
passage_locator:
label: THE DOG AND THE COOK / THE MONKEY AS KING / THE THIEVES AND THE COCK / THE
FARMER AND FORTUNE; lines 302-340
start: '302'
end: '340'
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: The passage is a sequence of Aesop fable titles, including titles pairing
humans with animals, animals with other animals, a plant pairing, and titles naming
Jupiter, Fortune, kingship, thieves, travellers, and occupational figures.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: The passage consists of fable titles rather than narrative episodes.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: Several titles pair human figures with animal figures, including travellers
with a bear or apes, a slave with a lion, a man with a flea, a blind man with
a cub, a boy with snails, a fisherman with a sprat, a fox with a goat, and a dog
with a cook.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:3
text: Several titles pair animal or plant figures with one another, including an
oak with reeds, a crab with his mother, an ass with his burdens, and thieves with
a cock.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:4
text: One title names Jupiter together with a bee.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:5
text: One title identifies a monkey in the role of king.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:6
text: One title names a farmer together with Fortune.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: Bear
description: Animal figure named in the title "The Bear and the Travellers."
role_refs:
- role:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: Travellers
description: Human figures named in titles involving a bear, apes, and boasting.
role_refs:
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:7
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: Slave
description: Human figure named with a lion.
role_refs:
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: Lion
description: Animal figure named with a slave.
role_refs:
- role:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: Flea
description: Animal figure named with a man.
role_refs:
- role:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: Man
description: Human figure named with a flea.
role_refs:
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: Bee
description: Animal figure named with Jupiter.
role_refs:
- role:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: fig:8
name_or_label: Jupiter
description: Divine figure named with a bee.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: fig:9
name_or_label: Oak
description: Plant figure named with reeds.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: fig:10
name_or_label: Reeds
description: Plant figures named with an oak.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: fig:11
name_or_label: Blind man
description: Human figure named with a cub.
role_refs:
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: fig:12
name_or_label: Cub
description: Young animal figure named with a blind man.
role_refs:
- role:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: fig:13
name_or_label: Boy
description: Human figure named with snails.
role_refs:
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: fig:14
name_or_label: Snails
description: Animal figures named with a boy.
role_refs:
- role:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: fig:15
name_or_label: Apes
description: Animal figures named with two travellers.
role_refs:
- role:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: fig:16
name_or_label: Ass
description: Animal figure named with burdens and with a shadow.
role_refs:
- role:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:7
- id: fig:17
name_or_label: Shepherd's boy
description: Human figure named with a wolf.
role_refs:
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: fig:18
name_or_label: Wolf
description: Animal figure named with a shepherd's boy.
role_refs:
- role:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: fig:19
name_or_label: Fox
description: Animal figure named with a goat.
role_refs:
- role:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: fig:20
name_or_label: Goat
description: Animal figure named with a fox.
role_refs:
- role:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: fig:21
name_or_label: Fisherman
description: Human occupational figure named with a sprat.
role_refs:
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: fig:22
name_or_label: Sprat
description: Animal figure named with a fisherman.
role_refs:
- role:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: fig:23
name_or_label: Crab
description: Animal figure named with his mother.
role_refs:
- role:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: fig:24
name_or_label: Crab's mother
description: Maternal animal figure named in relation to the crab.
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: fig:25
name_or_label: Farmer
description: Human occupational figure named with his sons and with Fortune.
role_refs:
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:7
- id: fig:26
name_or_label: Farmer's sons
description: Human family figures named in relation to a farmer.
role_refs:
- role:2
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: fig:27
name_or_label: Dog
description: Animal figure named with a cook.
role_refs:
- role:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: fig:28
name_or_label: Cook
description: Human occupational figure named with a dog.
role_refs:
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: fig:29
name_or_label: Monkey
description: Animal figure identified as king.
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: fig:30
name_or_label: Thieves
description: Human figures named with a cock.
role_refs:
- role:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: fig:31
name_or_label: Cock
description: Animal figure named with thieves.
role_refs:
- role:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: fig:32
name_or_label: Fortune
description: Personified figure named with a farmer.
role_refs:
- role:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
roles:
- id: role:1
label: animal figure
assigned_to:
- fig:1
- fig:4
- fig:5
- fig:7
- fig:12
- fig:14
- fig:15
- fig:16
- fig:18
- fig:19
- fig:20
- fig:22
- fig:23
- fig:24
- fig:27
- fig:29
- fig:31
basis: These figures are animals or animal-like beings named in the titles.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:7
- id: role:2
label: human figure
assigned_to:
- fig:2
- fig:3
- fig:6
- fig:11
- fig:13
- fig:17
- fig:21
- fig:25
- fig:26
- fig:28
basis: These figures are humans or human occupational/family figures named in the
titles.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:6
- ev:7
- id: role:3
label: divine figure
assigned_to:
- fig:8
basis: Jupiter is named in a title.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: role:4
label: plant figure
assigned_to:
- fig:9
- fig:10
basis: The oak and reeds are plants named as title figures.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: role:5
label: mother
assigned_to:
- fig:24
basis: The title identifies the crab's mother.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: role:6
label: sons
assigned_to:
- fig:26
basis: The title identifies sons of a farmer.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: role:7
label: king
assigned_to:
- fig:29
basis: The title states "The Monkey as King."
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: role:8
label: thieves
assigned_to:
- fig:30
basis: The title names thieves.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: role:9
label: personified abstraction
assigned_to:
- fig:32
basis: The title names Fortune alongside a farmer.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: oak and reeds
literal_form: Oak and reeds
associated_figures:
- fig:9
- fig:10
taxonomy_refs:
- tree
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: sym:2
label: kingship
literal_form: Monkey as king
associated_figures:
- fig:29
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: sym:3
label: Fortune
literal_form: Fortune named as a title figure
associated_figures:
- fig:32
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: sym:4
label: burdens
literal_form: Ass's burdens
associated_figures:
- fig:16
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: sym:5
label: shadow
literal_form: Ass's shadow
associated_figures:
- fig:16
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Sequence of fable titles
summary: The passage lists fable titles without presenting the narrative action
of the fables.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
- fig:4
- fig:5
- fig:6
- fig:7
- fig:8
- fig:9
- fig:10
- fig:11
- fig:12
- fig:13
- fig:14
- fig:15
- fig:16
- fig:17
- fig:18
- fig:19
- fig:20
- fig:21
- fig:22
- fig:23
- fig:24
- fig:25
- fig:26
- fig:27
- fig:28
- fig:29
- fig:30
- fig:31
- fig:32
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
- sym:3
- sym:4
- sym:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: paired encounter between human and animal figures
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: Multiple titles pair human figures with animal figures.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:7
confidence: medium
cautions: Only titles are present; the nature and function of each encounter are
not stated.
- id: motif:2
label: animal kingship
taxonomy_refs:
- royal_legitimacy
basis: One title identifies a monkey as king.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
confidence: low
cautions: The title supports kingship but does not provide narrative details about
legitimacy, accession, or rule.
- id: motif:3
label: human relation with personified Fortune
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: One title names a farmer together with Fortune.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
confidence: low
cautions: The title alone does not state whether Fortune acts, speaks, judges, or
functions as a deity/personification in the story.
- id: motif:4
label: plant contrast or pairing
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: One title pairs an oak with reeds.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
confidence: low
cautions: No narrative content is supplied, so any contrast between the plant figures
remains unstated.
comparison_claims: []
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: lines 302-340
quote_or_summary: The line range contains a sequence of Aesop fable titles, from
"The Bear and the Travellers" through "The Farmer and Fortune."
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/aesops-fables-vernon-jones.md
rights_note: Public domain source; concise summary used.
- id: ev:2
type: summary
locator: lines 302-340
quote_or_summary: 'Titles in the passage include human-animal pairings: bear/travellers,
slave/lion, flea/man, blind man/cub, boy/snails, apes/two travellers, fox/goat,
fisherman/sprat, and dog/cook.'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/aesops-fables-vernon-jones.md
rights_note: Public domain source; concise summary used.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: lines 302-340
quote_or_summary: Titles in the passage include oak/reeds, ass/burdens, crab/mother,
ass/shadow, and thieves/cock.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/aesops-fables-vernon-jones.md
rights_note: Public domain source; concise summary used.
- id: ev:4
type: quote
locator: lines 302-340
quote_or_summary: '"THE BEE AND JUPITER"'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/aesops-fables-vernon-jones.md
rights_note: Public domain source.
- id: ev:5
type: quote
locator: lines 302-340
quote_or_summary: '"THE MONKEY AS KING"'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/aesops-fables-vernon-jones.md
rights_note: Public domain source.
- id: ev:6
type: quote
locator: lines 302-340
quote_or_summary: '"THE FARMER AND FORTUNE"'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/aesops-fables-vernon-jones.md
rights_note: Public domain source.
- id: ev:7
type: summary
locator: lines 302-340
quote_or_summary: Other titles in the passage include the shepherd's boy and the
wolf, the boasting traveller, the farmer and his sons, the dog and the cook, and
the ass and his shadow.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/aesops-fables-vernon-jones.md
rights_note: Public domain source; concise summary used.
confidence:
extraction: medium
motif_candidates: low
comparison_claims: uncertain
notes: The supplied passage contains only fable titles, not the narrative text of
the fables. Figure and symbol extraction is based on named title elements only;
motif candidates are therefore cautious and low-detail.
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: |-
No comparison claims were added because the passage itself does not support comparison beyond title-level grouping.
batch_run_id=motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority
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