batch.motif.celtic-irish-heroic-romances-of-ireland-leahy-gutenberg-l6694-l6716
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record_id: batch.motif.celtic-irish-heroic-romances-of-ireland-leahy-gutenberg-l6694-l6716
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/celtic-irish/project-gutenberg/heroic-romances-of-ireland-leahy.md
passage_locator:
label: PAGE 13 / PAGE 14 / PAGE 15 / PAGE 17; lines 6694-6716
start: '6694'
end: '6716'
translation: Heroic Romances of Ireland
notes: Generated from OpenAI Batch run motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority;
human review required.
canonical_text:
quote: "“it is a race up heaven, / it is a weapon under the ocean”"
summary: A translator’s note gives an uncertain literal rendering of a rhetorical
passage about love, comparing the speaker’s affection to intense or impossible
images involving endurance, the skin, strength, the divided earth, heaven, a broken
neck, a spectre, drowning, the ocean, and an echo.
language: English
quote_policy: quoted
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: The passage is presented as a translator’s literal rendering of rhetoric,
with some words marked uncertain.
category: other
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: The speaker describes love as enduring longer than a year and as being like
something under the skin.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:3
text: The speaker compares love to strength over destruction, dividing the earth
into quarters, and the summit of heaven.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:4
text: The speaker compares love to breaking a neck and to battle against a spectre.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:5
text: The speaker compares love to drowning with cold or water, a race up heaven,
a weapon under the ocean, and affection for an echo.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:6
text: The rhetoric concludes by identifying these comparisons with the speaker’s
affection, love, and desire for the one loved.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: first-person speaker
description: The voice that says “my affection and my love and my desire.”
role_refs:
- role:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: the one loved
description: The person described as “the one on whom I have set” the speaker’s
love.
role_refs:
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: spectre
description: A spectre appears as the opponent in the image of “a battle against
a spectre.”
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
roles:
- id: role:1
label: lover or desiring speaker
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: The first-person voice names “my affection and my love and my desire.”
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: role:2
label: beloved or object of affection
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: The passage refers to “the one on whom I have set” love.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: role:3
label: rhetorical opponent
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: The spectre is named only within the image of a battle against it.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: earth divided into quarters
literal_form: dividing into quarters of the earth
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: sym:2
label: summit of heaven
literal_form: summit of heaven
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: sym:3
label: battle against a spectre
literal_form: battle against a spectre
associated_figures:
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: sym:4
label: drowning with cold or water
literal_form: drowning with cold or water
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs:
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: sym:5
label: race up heaven
literal_form: race up heaven
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: sym:6
label: weapon under the ocean
literal_form: weapon under the ocean
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs:
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: sym:7
label: affection for an echo
literal_form: affection for an echo
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: sym:8
label: under the skin
literal_form: being under the skin
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: uncertain rhetorical description of love
summary: The passage lists a sequence of metaphor-like images used to characterize
the speaker’s love and desire for the beloved.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
- sym:3
- sym:4
- sym:5
- sym:6
- sym:7
- sym:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:6
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: heavenward ascent image
taxonomy_refs:
- ascent
basis: The rhetoric includes the images “summit of heaven” and “a race up heaven.”
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:5
confidence: low
cautions: The passage is a translator’s uncertain rendering of rhetoric, not a narrative
ascent episode.
- id: motif:2
label: submerged weapon image
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: The rhetoric includes the image of “a weapon under the ocean.”
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
confidence: low
cautions: No action, owner, recovery, or narrative function of the weapon is given.
- id: motif:3
label: combat with spectral being
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: The rhetoric includes the comparison “a battle against a spectre.”
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
confidence: low
cautions: The spectre appears only in a rhetorical comparison and not as an enacted
encounter.
comparison_claims: []
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: note
locator: lines 6694-6699
quote_or_summary: Translator notes that the rhetoric is literally translated, but
some words are uncertain.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/celtic-irish/project-gutenberg/heroic-romances-of-ireland-leahy.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short excerpt or summary used.
- id: ev:2
type: quote
locator: lines 6700-6702
quote_or_summary: "“It is love that was longer enduring (?) than a year my love,
/ it is like being under the skin”"
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/celtic-irish/project-gutenberg/heroic-romances-of-ireland-leahy.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short excerpt used.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: lines 6703-6707
quote_or_summary: Love is rendered as the kingdom of strength over destruction,
the dividing of the earth into quarters, and the summit of heaven.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/celtic-irish/project-gutenberg/heroic-romances-of-ireland-leahy.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summary used.
- id: ev:4
type: quote
locator: lines 6708-6709
quote_or_summary: "“it is breaking of the neck, / it is a battle against a spectre.”"
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/celtic-irish/project-gutenberg/heroic-romances-of-ireland-leahy.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short excerpt used.
- id: ev:5
type: quote
locator: lines 6710-6713
quote_or_summary: "“It is drowning with cold (or ? water), / it is a race up heaven,
/ it is a weapon under the ocean, / it is affection for an echo”"
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/celtic-irish/project-gutenberg/heroic-romances-of-ireland-leahy.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short excerpt used.
- id: ev:6
type: quote
locator: lines 6714-6716
quote_or_summary: "“my affection and my love and my desire of the one on whom I
/ have set (my love).”"
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/celtic-irish/project-gutenberg/heroic-romances-of-ireland-leahy.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short excerpt used.
confidence:
extraction: medium
motif_candidates: low
comparison_claims: uncertain
notes: Extraction is limited by the passage’s own warning that the text is defective
and the literal translation contains uncertain words. Motif candidates are based
on isolated rhetorical images rather than narrative episodes.
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 establish a comparison with another text, tradition, or motif family beyond isolated images.
batch_run_id=motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority
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