batch.motif.islamic-koran-sale-gutenberg-l19244-l19339
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record_id: batch.motif.islamic-koran-sale-gutenberg-l19244-l19339
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
passage_locator:
label: IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER IX. / CHAPTER X. / IN THE
NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 19244-19339
start: '19244'
end: '19339'
translation: The Koran (Al-Qur'an)
notes: Generated from OpenAI Batch run motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority;
human review required.
canonical_text:
quote: ''
summary: 'The passage recounts the children of Israel passing through the sea, Pharaoh
and his army pursuing them, Pharaoh professing belief while drowning, and God
raising Pharaoh''s body as a sign. It then describes Israel''s settlement and
later religious disagreement, warns that signs do not benefit those who will not
believe, and gives the people of Jonas/Nineveh as an exception: they repented
before punishment and were spared for a time. Notes add interpretive details about
Gabriel, Pharaoh''s corpse, and the threatening cloud of fire over Nineveh.'
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: The children of Israel are caused to pass through the sea.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: Pharaoh and his army follow the children of Israel in a violent and hostile
manner.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:3
text: While drowning, Pharaoh declares belief in the God believed in by the children
of Israel and says he is one of the resigned.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:4
text: Pharaoh is reproached for believing only after previous rebellion and wickedness.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:5
text: Pharaoh's body is to be raised from the bottom of the sea as a sign for later
people.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:6
text: The children of Israel are given an established dwelling in Canaan and good
sustenance.
category: setting
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:7
text: The passage states that God will judge religious disagreements on the day
of resurrection.
category: other
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:8
text: The passage warns that some people will not believe even if every kind of
miracle comes to them, until they see grievous punishment.
category: other
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:9
text: The people of Jonas are singled out as believing before punishment, after
which they are delivered from shameful punishment in this world and allowed to
enjoy life and possessions for a time.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:10
text: The note describes the people of Nineveh seeing a black cloud that shot forth
fire, filled the air with smoke, and hung over their city before they repented.
category: setting
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: obs:11
text: The note says the people of Nineveh went into the fields with families and
cattle, put on sackcloth, humbled themselves, called for pardon, and repented.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: obs:12
text: The note says God forgave the people of Nineveh and the storm blew over.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: children of Israel
description: A community caused to pass through the sea and later settled in Canaan
with good sustenance.
role_refs:
- role:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:5
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: Pharaoh
description: The ruler who pursues the children of Israel, professes belief while
drowning, and whose body is raised as a sign.
role_refs:
- role:2
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: Pharaoh's army
description: The army that follows the children of Israel with Pharaoh in a violent
and hostile manner.
role_refs:
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: God / LORD
description: The divine actor who causes Israel to pass through the sea, raises
Pharaoh's body as a sign, judges on the day of resurrection, and forgives the
repentant people of Jonas.
role_refs:
- role:4
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:8
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: Gabriel
description: In the notes, Gabriel stops Pharaoh's mouth with mud and, by God's
command, causes Pharaoh's corpse to swim to shore.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- ev:10
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: people of Jonas / inhabitants of Nineveh
description: A city population that believes before punishment, repents, and is
delivered from punishment for a time.
role_refs:
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:8
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: Jonas
description: A preacher sent by God to reclaim the idolatrous inhabitants of Nineveh
according to the note.
role_refs:
- role:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
roles:
- id: role:1
label: delivered community
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: They pass through the sea and are later given a dwelling and sustenance.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:5
- id: role:2
label: hostile pursuer
assigned_to:
- fig:2
- fig:3
basis: Pharaoh and his army follow the children of Israel violently and hostilely.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: role:3
label: late repentant drowned ruler
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: Pharaoh professes belief while drowning but is reproached for prior rebellion.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- id: role:4
label: divine deliverer and sign-giver
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: God causes the sea passage and raises Pharaoh's body as a sign.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:4
- id: role:5
label: divine judge and forgiver
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: The LORD judges disagreements on the day of resurrection and forgives the
repentant Ninevites in the note.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:8
- id: role:6
label: angelic agent in commentary
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: The notes attribute actions concerning Pharaoh's mouth and corpse to Gabriel.
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- ev:10
- id: role:7
label: repentant spared city
assigned_to:
- fig:6
basis: They believe before punishment, humble themselves, and are delivered from
punishment.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:8
- id: role:8
label: prophetic warner
assigned_to:
- fig:7
basis: The note says Jonas was sent by God to preach to and reclaim Nineveh.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: sea passage
literal_form: sea
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs:
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:4
- id: sym:2
label: raised body as sign
literal_form: Pharaoh's body raised from the bottom of the sea
associated_figures:
- fig:2
- fig:4
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:10
- id: sym:3
label: Canaan dwelling
literal_form: established dwelling in the land of Canaan
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: sym:4
label: threatening cloud with fire and smoke
literal_form: black cloud shooting fire and filling the air with smoke over the
city
associated_figures:
- fig:6
taxonomy_refs:
- fire
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: sym:5
label: sackcloth repentance
literal_form: sackcloth worn by the people of Nineveh
associated_figures:
- fig:6
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Sea crossing and pursuit
summary: The children of Israel pass through the sea while Pharaoh and his army
pursue them violently.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
- fig:4
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: scene:2
label: Pharaoh's drowning confession and body as sign
summary: Pharaoh declares belief while drowning, is reproached for his late belief,
and his body is raised from the sea as a sign for later people.
figure_refs:
- fig:2
- fig:4
- fig:5
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:9
- ev:10
- id: scene:3
label: Israel settled and later judged over disagreement
summary: The children of Israel receive a dwelling and sustenance, later differ
after knowledge comes to them, and God is said to judge their disagreements on
the day of resurrection.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:4
symbol_refs:
- sym:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: scene:4
label: People of Jonas repent and are spared
summary: The people of Jonas believe before punishment; the note describes a fiery
cloud over Nineveh, public repentance in sackcloth, divine forgiveness, and the
storm passing over.
figure_refs:
- fig:4
- fig:6
- fig:7
symbol_refs:
- sym:4
- sym:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:8
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: deliverance through sea with destruction of hostile pursuer
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: The children of Israel pass through the sea, while Pharaoh and his army pursue
them and Pharaoh drowns after a late confession.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:3
confidence: high
cautions: The passage describes a sea crossing and drowning, not a flood; classification
is limited to divine judgment rather than a specific flood motif.
- id: motif:2
label: corpse displayed as a divine sign
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: Pharaoh's body is raised from the bottom of the sea so that it may be a sign
to later people.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:10
confidence: high
cautions: The motif concerns display of a body as a sign; it is not described as
resurrection.
- id: motif:3
label: late repentance at the moment of punishment rejected
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: Pharaoh professes belief while drowning, but is reproached for believing
only after earlier rebellion and wickedness.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:9
confidence: high
cautions: The note adds Gabriel's action; the core passage emphasizes the lateness
of Pharaoh's belief.
- id: motif:4
label: repentance averts threatened destruction of a city
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: The people of Jonas believe before punishment and are delivered; the note
describes their collective repentance and God's forgiveness.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:8
confidence: high
cautions: The details of the cloud, fire, smoke, and sackcloth are from explanatory
notes rather than the main translated verse.
- id: motif:5
label: fiery cloud as omen of city punishment
taxonomy_refs:
- world_destroying_fire
basis: The note describes a black cloud shooting fire and smoke over Nineveh shortly
before the people repent and the storm passes over.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
confidence: medium
cautions: The threatened destruction is local to a city, not world-destroying; taxonomy
reference is approximate and should be reviewed.
comparison_claims:
- id: claim:1
claim: The passage and note explicitly connect Pharaoh's drowned body with the Exodus
sea-crossing tradition by citing Exodus xiv.30.
claim_level: same_motif
target: Exodus sea-crossing and Pharaoh's drowning tradition
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:10
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: medium
limitations: The comparison is based on the passage's footnote citation and shared
narrative elements; it does not establish historical dependence beyond the supplied
text.
- id: claim:2
claim: The passage's account of the people of Jonas/Nineveh repenting before destruction
aligns with the Jonah/Nineveh repentance tradition cited in the note.
claim_level: same_motif
target: Jonah iii.4 and Nineveh repentance tradition
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:8
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: medium
limitations: The comparison relies on the supplied note's citation and summary;
no external text is used here.
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: quote
locator: lines 19263-19265
quote_or_summary: "“we caused the children of Israel to pass through the sea; and
Pharaoh and his army followed them in a violent and hostile manner”"
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short excerpt used for evidence.
- id: ev:2
type: quote
locator: lines 19265-19267
quote_or_summary: While drowning, Pharaoh says he believes there is no God but the
one believed in by the children of Israel and that he is one of the resigned.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized evidence.
- id: ev:3
type: quote
locator: lines 19268-19269
quote_or_summary: "“Now dost thou believe; when thou hast been hitherto rebellious,
and one of the wicked doers?”"
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short excerpt used for evidence.
- id: ev:4
type: quote
locator: lines 19270-19272
quote_or_summary: "“This day will we raise thy body ... from the bottom of the sea,
that thou mayest be a sign unto those who shall be after thee”"
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short excerpt used for evidence.
- id: ev:5
type: summary
locator: lines 19273-19277
quote_or_summary: God prepares an established dwelling in Canaan and good sustenance
for the children of Israel; they later differ after knowledge comes, and the LORD
will judge their disagreements on the day of resurrection.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized evidence.
- id: ev:6
type: summary
locator: lines 19283-19289
quote_or_summary: The passage says those under God's decree will not believe even
if every kind of miracle comes to them, until they see grievous punishment.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized evidence.
- id: ev:7
type: summary
locator: lines 19290-19295
quote_or_summary: 'The people of Jonas are the exception among destroyed cities:
when they believed, God delivered them from shameful punishment in this world
and let them enjoy life and possessions for a time.'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized evidence.
- id: ev:8
type: summary
locator: lines 19317-19335
quote_or_summary: The note identifies the people as inhabitants of Nineveh, says
Jonas was sent to reclaim them, describes a black cloud shooting fire and smoke
over the city, and says the people repented in sackcloth with families and cattle,
after which God forgave them and the storm passed over.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized evidence.
- id: ev:9
type: summary
locator: lines 19300-19305
quote_or_summary: The note says Pharaoh repeated his confession in extremity, but
Gabriel stopped his mouth with mud lest he obtain mercy, reproaching him with
the following words.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized evidence.
- id: ev:10
type: summary
locator: lines 19306-19312
quote_or_summary: The note says some Israelites doubted Pharaoh's drowning, so Gabriel,
by God's command, caused his corpse to swim to shore; it also cites Exodus xiv.30
and mentions a variant involving a coat of mail.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized evidence.
confidence:
extraction: high
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: medium
notes: Core narrative extraction is direct from the supplied passage. Motif taxonomy
choices are conservative; some details come from translator/commentary notes rather
than the main translated verses.
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. Notes in the source passage were treated as evidence distinct from the main translated verses.
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