batch.motif.greek-aesop-fables-vernon-jones-gutenberg-l3605-l3618
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record_id: batch.motif.greek-aesop-fables-vernon-jones-gutenberg-l3605-l3618
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/aesops-fables-vernon-jones.md
passage_locator:
label: THE EAGLE, THE JACKDAW, AND THE SHEPHERD / THE WOLF AND THE BOY / THE MILLER,
HIS SON, AND THEIR ASS / THE STAG AND THE VINE; lines 3605-3618
start: '3605'
end: '3618'
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: Ingratitude sometimes brings its own punishment.
summary: A stag hides under a thick vine while huntsmen pass by. After danger seems
to have passed, the stag eats the vine's leaves; the movement reveals him to returning
huntsmen, and an arrow kills him. The dying stag says he deserves the fate because
he fed on the leaves of his protector. The fable concludes that ingratitude can
bring punishment.
language: English
quote_policy: quoted
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: A stag is pursued by huntsmen and conceals himself under a thick vine.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: The huntsmen lose track of the stag and pass by his hiding place without noticing
him.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:3
text: The stag believes the danger is over and begins eating the leaves of the vine
that sheltered him.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:4
text: The movement in the foliage attracts the returning huntsmen's attention.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:5
text: One huntsman shoots an arrow into the foliage, and the stag is pierced to
the heart.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:6
text: The dying stag states that he deserves his fate for feeding on the leaves
of his protector.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:7
text: The stated moral is that ingratitude sometimes brings its own punishment.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: Stag
description: A stag pursued by huntsmen, hidden under a vine, later killed by an
arrow.
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: Huntsmen
description: Hunters pursuing the stag; one returning huntsman shoots an arrow into
the foliage.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: Vine
description: A thick vine that covers and protects the stag's hiding place until
the stag eats its leaves.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:4
roles:
- id: role:1
label: pursued animal
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: The stag is pursued by huntsmen and hides from them.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: role:2
label: ungrateful beneficiary
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: The stag feeds on the leaves of the vine that had protected him, and acknowledges
this as treachery.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:4
- id: role:3
label: pursuers and killers
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: The huntsmen pursue the stag, return, notice movement, and one shoots into
the foliage.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- id: role:4
label: protector or shelter
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: The vine conceals the stag, and the stag later calls it his protector.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:4
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: protective vine
literal_form: thick Vine and its leaves
associated_figures:
- fig:3
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:4
- id: sym:2
label: arrow
literal_form: arrow shot into the foliage
associated_figures:
- fig:2
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: sym:3
label: foliage concealment
literal_form: cover of a thick Vine / foliage
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:3
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Concealment under the vine
summary: The stag hides under a thick vine while the huntsmen pass by without detecting
him.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: scene:2
label: Eating the protector's leaves
summary: After supposing the danger has passed, the stag begins browsing on the
vine's leaves.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:3
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: scene:3
label: Discovery and fatal arrow
summary: The moving foliage attracts the returning huntsmen, and one shoots an arrow
into the foliage, killing the stag.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
symbol_refs:
- sym:2
- sym:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: scene:4
label: Dying confession and moral
summary: The stag says he deserves his fate for feeding on his protector's leaves,
and the fable states the moral about ingratitude bringing punishment.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:3
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: ingratitude punished by its own consequences
taxonomy_refs:
- wisdom
basis: The stag harms the vine that protected him; this action reveals him and leads
to his death, followed by an explicit moral that ingratitude brings punishment.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:5
confidence: high
cautions: The available taxonomy has only broad motif-family labels; 'wisdom' is
used because the passage is an explicit moral fable, not because the scene contains
a named mythic wisdom figure.
- id: motif:2
label: betrayal of a protector
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: The stag identifies the vine as his protector and calls his feeding on its
leaves treachery.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
confidence: high
cautions: This is a passage-level fable pattern rather than a supplied formal taxonomy
motif.
- id: motif:3
label: hidden fugitive exposed by his own action
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: The stag successfully hides from the huntsmen, but his browsing causes movement
that attracts their attention.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:3
confidence: high
cautions: The pattern is directly supported by the sequence of events, but no specific
external taxonomy reference is supplied.
comparison_claims:
- id: claim:1
claim: The passage itself presents a fable-pattern in which an ungrateful act toward
a protector becomes the cause of punishment.
claim_level: same_motif
target: ingratitude brings its own punishment fable pattern
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: high
limitations: This claim is limited to the internal moral and event-pattern of the
passage; it does not assert historical contact, common inheritance, or comparison
with a separate text.
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: 3605-3610
quote_or_summary: The fable opens with a stag pursued by huntsmen; he hides under
a thick vine, and the huntsmen pass without noticing him.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/aesops-fables-vernon-jones.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summary supplied.
- id: ev:2
type: summary
locator: 3610-3612
quote_or_summary: Believing the danger to be over, the stag begins to browse on
the vine's leaves.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/aesops-fables-vernon-jones.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summary supplied.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: 3612-3615
quote_or_summary: The movement draws the attention of the returning huntsmen; one
shoots an arrow into the foliage, and the stag is pierced to the heart.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/aesops-fables-vernon-jones.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summary supplied.
- id: ev:4
type: quote
locator: 3615-3617
quote_or_summary: '"I deserve my fate for my treachery in feeding upon the leaves
of my protector."'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/aesops-fables-vernon-jones.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short quotation supplied from public domain text.
- id: ev:5
type: quote
locator: '3618'
quote_or_summary: '"Ingratitude sometimes brings its own punishment."'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/aesops-fables-vernon-jones.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short quotation supplied from public domain text.
confidence:
extraction: high
motif_candidates: high
comparison_claims: medium
notes: The event sequence and moral are explicit. Taxonomy mapping is limited because
the supplied motif families do not include a specific 'ingratitude punished' category.
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 supplied passage was used; despite the locator label naming several fables, the provided passage text contains only 'THE STAG AND THE VINE'.
batch_run_id=motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority
custom_id=motif_extract:greek-aesop-fables-vernon-jones-gutenberg__l3605-l3618
passage_sha256=e183c9f007558f50f9c779cc4f6dc1918e4675ab77c87d191f3c15ef37ad9cd3