batch.motif.greek-aesop-fables-vernon-jones-gutenberg-l3661-l3671

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record_id: batch.motif.greek-aesop-fables-vernon-jones-gutenberg-l3661-l3671
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/aesops-fables-vernon-jones.md
passage_locator:
  label: THE LAMB CHASED BY A WOLF / THE ARCHER AND THE LION / THE WOLF AND THE GOAT
    / THE SICK STAG; lines 3661-3671
  start: '3661'
  end: '3671'
  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: A sick stag lies helpless in a forest clearing. Other beasts visit him
    and eat the grass around him. When he starts to recover, he is still too weak
    to seek food elsewhere and dies of hunger because his friends have consumed the
    nearby fodder.
  language: English
  quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
  text: A stag becomes sick and lies in a forest clearing, unable to move from the
    spot.
  category: action
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
- id: obs:2
  text: Other beasts hear of the stag’s illness and come to inquire after his health.
  category: action
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:2
- id: obs:3
  text: Each visiting beast eats some of the grass growing around the sick stag.
  category: action
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:2
- id: obs:4
  text: The nearby grass is exhausted, leaving no blade within the stag’s reach.
  category: object
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:2
- id: obs:5
  text: The stag begins to recover but remains too weak to get up and search for fodder.
  category: sequence
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:3
- id: obs:6
  text: The stag dies of hunger, attributed in the passage to the thoughtlessness
    of his friends.
  category: sequence
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:3
figures:
- id: fig:1
  name_or_label: Sick Stag
  description: A stag who falls sick, lies helpless in a forest clearing, and later
    dies of hunger.
  role_refs:
  - role:1
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
  - ev:3
- id: fig:2
  name_or_label: Visiting beasts
  description: Other beasts who come to inquire after the stag’s health and eat the
    grass around him.
  role_refs:
  - role:2
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:2
roles:
- id: role:1
  label: invalid victim
  assigned_to:
  - fig:1
  basis: The stag is ill, unable to move, and ultimately dies because the nearby food
    has been consumed.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
  - ev:3
- id: role:2
  label: thoughtless friends
  assigned_to:
  - fig:2
  basis: The beasts are described as friends whose thoughtlessness leads to the stag’s
    death after they eat the grass within his reach.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:2
  - ev:3
symbols:
- id: sym:1
  label: forest clearing
  literal_form: clearing in the forest
  associated_figures:
  - fig:1
  taxonomy_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
- id: sym:2
  label: nearby grass
  literal_form: grass growing around the sick stag
  associated_figures:
  - fig:1
  - fig:2
  taxonomy_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:2
  - ev:3
- id: sym:3
  label: fodder out of reach
  literal_form: fodder that the stag is too weak to seek
  associated_figures:
  - fig:1
  taxonomy_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:3
scenes:
- id: scene:1
  label: Illness in the clearing
  summary: The stag falls sick and lies in a forest clearing, too weak to move.
  figure_refs:
  - fig:1
  symbol_refs:
  - sym:1
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
- id: scene:2
  label: Visitors consume the nearby grass
  summary: Other beasts visit the sick stag and each eats some of the grass around
    him until none remains within his reach.
  figure_refs:
  - fig:1
  - fig:2
  symbol_refs:
  - sym:2
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:2
- id: scene:3
  label: Death by hunger after partial recovery
  summary: The stag begins to mend but remains unable to search for food and dies
    of hunger because the nearby grass has been consumed.
  figure_refs:
  - fig:1
  symbol_refs:
  - sym:2
  - sym:3
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:3
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
  label: thoughtless friends harm the helpless
  taxonomy_refs: []
  basis: The visiting beasts act as friends but consume the sick stag’s accessible
    food, contributing to his death.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:2
  - ev:3
  confidence: high
  cautions: The passage frames the cause as thoughtlessness rather than deliberate
    malice.
- id: motif:2
  label: the invalid deprived of sustenance by visitors
  taxonomy_refs: []
  basis: A helpless sick animal depends on nearby food, but visitors exhaust that
    resource before he can recover enough to move.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
  - ev:2
  - ev:3
  confidence: high
  cautions: This is a passage-specific motif candidate without an assigned external
    taxonomy reference.
- id: motif:3
  label: social concern without practical care
  taxonomy_refs:
  - wisdom
  basis: The beasts come to inquire after the stag’s health, but their behavior undermines
    his survival; the fable presents a practical lesson about careless assistance
    or concern.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:2
  - ev:3
  confidence: medium
  cautions: The taxonomy reference to wisdom is broad; the passage gives the narrative
    outcome but does not state a separate moral maxim.
comparison_claims: []
evidence:
- id: ev:1
  type: summary
  locator: lines 3661-3663
  quote_or_summary: A stag falls sick and lies in a forest clearing, too weak to move
    from the spot.
  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 3663-3668
  quote_or_summary: Other beasts hear of the illness, visit to inquire after the stag’s
    health, and each nibbles the grass around him until none remains within reach.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/aesops-fables-vernon-jones.md
  rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:3
  type: summary
  locator: lines 3668-3671
  quote_or_summary: After a few days the stag begins to mend but remains too weak
    to seek fodder and dies of hunger because of his friends’ thoughtlessness.
  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: high
  notes: Literal narrative elements are clear. Motif labels are conservative and based
    only on this passage; no comparison claims are made.
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 text was used. Although the locator label lists multiple fables, the provided passage contains only “THE SICK STAG.”
  batch_run_id=motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority
  custom_id=motif_extract:greek-aesop-fables-vernon-jones-gutenberg__l3661-l3671
  passage_sha256=977781e9a511b62f17fe53e105a54ad98686d4c7f1817d58bec63bfcb2e4a7fe