batch.motif.greek-aesop-fables-vernon-jones-gutenberg-l786-l827
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record_id: batch.motif.greek-aesop-fables-vernon-jones-gutenberg-l786-l827
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/aesops-fables-vernon-jones.md
passage_locator:
label: VENUS AND THE CAT / THE TRAVELLERS AND THE PLANE-TREE / THE TREES AND THE
AXE / THE LION, JUPITER, AND THE ELEPHANT; lines 786-827
start: '786'
end: '827'
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 fable and illustration titles. It includes
several titles before a 'LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS' heading and then an 'IN COLOUR'
list containing animal, human, divine, plant, object, and natural-feature titles.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: The passage lists fable titles including Prometheus and the making of man,
paired birds, a hunter and horseman, a goatherd and wild goats, a nightingale
and swallow, and a traveller with Fortune.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: The passage contains a heading for a list of illustrations and a subheading
indicating illustrations in colour.
category: setting
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:3
text: The colour illustration list includes titles naming animals, humans, deities
or personifications, plants or trees, objects, and natural features.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:4
text: Divine or personified figures named in the passage include Prometheus, Fortune,
Venus, and Jupiter; the Moon is also named with a maternal relation.
category: object
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- id: obs:5
text: Tree or plant forms named in titles include the fir-tree, bramble, plane-tree,
and trees.
category: object
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: Prometheus
description: Named in the title 'Prometheus and the Making of Man.'
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: Man
description: Named as the made being in the title 'Prometheus and the Making of
Man.'
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: Swallow
description: Bird named in the titles 'The Swallow and the Crow' and 'The Nightingale
and the Swallow.'
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: Crow
description: Bird named in the title 'The Swallow and the Crow.'
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: Hunter
description: Human figure named in the title 'The Hunter and the Horseman.'
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: Horseman
description: Human figure named in the title 'The Hunter and the Horseman.'
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: Goatherd
description: Human figure named in the title 'The Goatherd and the Wild Goats.'
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: fig:8
name_or_label: Wild goats
description: Animals named in the title 'The Goatherd and the Wild Goats.'
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: fig:9
name_or_label: Nightingale
description: Bird named in the title 'The Nightingale and the Swallow.'
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: fig:10
name_or_label: Traveller
description: Human figure named in the title 'The Traveller and Fortune.'
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: fig:11
name_or_label: Fortune
description: Personified or named figure paired with the Traveller in a title.
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: fig:12
name_or_label: Hare
description: Animal named in the title 'The Hare and the Tortoise.'
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: fig:13
name_or_label: Tortoise
description: Animal named in the title 'The Hare and the Tortoise.'
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: fig:14
name_or_label: Moon
description: Celestial figure named in the title 'The Moon and Her Mother.'
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: fig:15
name_or_label: Mother of the Moon
description: Maternal figure named in the title 'The Moon and Her Mother.'
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: fig:16
name_or_label: Crab
description: Animal named in the title 'The Crab and His Mother.'
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: fig:17
name_or_label: Mother of the Crab
description: Maternal figure named in the title 'The Crab and His Mother.'
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: fig:18
name_or_label: Frog
description: Animal named in the title 'The Quack Frog.'
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: fig:19
name_or_label: Shipwrecked man
description: Human figure named in the title 'The Shipwrecked Man and the Sea.'
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: fig:20
name_or_label: Person labeled 'Blackamoor'
description: Person named by an archaic title label in 'The Blackamoor.'
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: fig:21
name_or_label: Venus
description: Deity named in the title 'Venus and the Cat.'
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: fig:22
name_or_label: Cat
description: Animal named in the title 'Venus and the Cat.'
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: fig:23
name_or_label: Travellers
description: Human figures named in the title 'The Travellers and the Plane-Tree.'
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: fig:24
name_or_label: Fir-tree
description: Tree named in the title 'The Fir-Tree and the Bramble.'
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: fig:25
name_or_label: Bramble
description: Plant named in the title 'The Fir-Tree and the Bramble.'
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: fig:26
name_or_label: Plane-tree
description: Tree named in the title 'The Travellers and the Plane-Tree.'
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: fig:27
name_or_label: Trees
description: Trees named collectively in the title 'The Trees and the Axe.'
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: fig:28
name_or_label: Lion
description: Animal named in the title 'The Lion, Jupiter, and the Elephant.'
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: fig:29
name_or_label: Jupiter
description: Deity named in the title 'The Lion, Jupiter, and the Elephant.'
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: fig:30
name_or_label: Elephant
description: Animal named in the title 'The Lion, Jupiter, and the Elephant.'
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
roles:
- id: role:1
label: named title participant
assigned_to:
- 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
basis: Each figure is named in one of the listed titles.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- id: role:2
label: divine, celestial, or personified figure named in title
assigned_to:
- fig:1
- fig:11
- fig:14
- fig:21
- fig:29
basis: The titles name Prometheus, Fortune, the Moon, Venus, and Jupiter.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- id: role:3
label: human or social figure named in title
assigned_to:
- fig:2
- fig:5
- fig:6
- fig:7
- fig:10
- fig:15
- fig:19
- fig:20
- fig:23
basis: The titles name human figures or social identities such as man, hunter, horseman,
goatherd, traveller, mother, shipwrecked man, and the archaically labeled 'Blackamoor.'
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- id: role:4
label: animal figure named in title
assigned_to:
- fig:3
- fig:4
- fig:8
- fig:9
- fig:12
- fig:13
- fig:16
- fig:17
- fig:18
- fig:22
- fig:28
- fig:30
basis: The titles name birds, goats, hare, tortoise, crab, frog, cat, lion, and
elephant.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- id: role:5
label: plant or tree figure named in title
assigned_to:
- fig:24
- fig:25
- fig:26
- fig:27
basis: The titles name a fir-tree, bramble, plane-tree, and trees.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: tree or plant
literal_form: fir-tree, bramble, plane-tree, trees
associated_figures:
- fig:24
- fig:25
- fig:26
- fig:27
taxonomy_refs:
- tree
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: sym:2
label: sea or water
literal_form: the Sea
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs:
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: sym:3
label: moon
literal_form: the Moon
associated_figures:
- fig:14
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: sym:4
label: axe
literal_form: the Axe
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: sym:5
label: two pots
literal_form: the Two Pots
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Fable titles before illustration list
summary: The passage opens with a sequence of fable titles naming mythic, human,
and animal participants.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
- fig:4
- fig:5
- fig:6
- fig:7
- fig:8
- fig:9
- fig:10
- fig:11
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: scene:2
label: List of colour illustrations
summary: A heading introduces a list of colour illustration titles, including animal
contests, maternal pairings, trees and plants, sea, pots, Venus and the Cat, trees
and an axe, and a grouping of lion, Jupiter, and elephant.
figure_refs:
- 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
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
- sym:3
- sym:4
- sym:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: divine or personified figure paired with human or animal title participant
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: Several titles pair divine, celestial, or personified figures with humans
or animals, including Prometheus with man, Fortune with a traveller, Venus with
a cat, and Jupiter with a lion and elephant.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
confidence: low
cautions: The passage supplies only titles, not the narrative actions or meanings
of the fables.
- id: motif:2
label: trees or plants as central fable title participants
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: 'Multiple titles foreground trees or plants: the fir-tree and bramble, the
travellers and the plane-tree, and the trees and the axe.'
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
confidence: low
cautions: The titles do not provide enough narrative detail to identify a specific
tree-axis or sacred-tree motif.
- id: motif:3
label: animal pairings in fable titles
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: Several titles pair animals or birds, including swallow and crow, nightingale
and swallow, hare and tortoise, crab and mother, Venus and cat, and lion with
elephant.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
confidence: medium
cautions: The pattern is visible at the title level, but no narrative function can
be extracted from this passage alone.
comparison_claims: []
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: lines 786-797
quote_or_summary: 'The opening sequence lists titles: ''Prometheus and the Making
of Man,'' ''The Swallow and the Crow,'' ''The Hunter and the Horseman,'' ''The
Goatherd and the Wild Goats,'' ''The Nightingale and the Swallow,'' and ''The
Traveller and Fortune.'''
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/aesops-fables-vernon-jones.md
rights_note: Public domain source; brief title quotation used for evidence.
- id: ev:2
type: quote
locator: lines 798-802
quote_or_summary: LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS / =IN COLOUR=
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/aesops-fables-vernon-jones.md
rights_note: Public domain source; brief quotation.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: lines 803-827
quote_or_summary: The colour illustration list includes titles from 'The Hare and
the Tortoise' through 'The Lion, Jupiter, and the Elephant,' naming animals, maternal
relations, trees and plants, a frog, sea, a person labeled 'Blackamoor,' pots,
Venus, travellers, an axe, Jupiter, and an elephant.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/aesops-fables-vernon-jones.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized with brief title references.
confidence:
extraction: medium
motif_candidates: low
comparison_claims: uncertain
notes: The passage is a table/list of titles rather than narrative fable text. Figures
and symbols are extractable at the title level, but motif identifications remain
tentative.
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 and metadata were used. The archaic title term 'Blackamoor' is retained as a title label for source fidelity, not as an endorsed descriptor.
batch_run_id=motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority
custom_id=motif_extract:greek-aesop-fables-vernon-jones-gutenberg__l786-l827
passage_sha256=d6c3c2e3c7cdf55a1880515e25424144ffefba374a90462e494bc775b9d0a58c