batch.motif.celtic-irish-tain-bo-cualnge-dunn-gutenberg-l948-l969

batch.motif.celtic-irish-tain-bo-cualnge-dunn-gutenberg-l948-l969

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record_id: batch.motif.celtic-irish-tain-bo-cualnge-dunn-gutenberg-l948-l969
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/celtic-irish/project-gutenberg/tain-bo-cualnge-dunn.md
passage_locator:
  label: MY MOTHER / CONTENTS / PREFACE / WORKS ON THE TAIN BO CUALNGE; lines 948-969
  start: '948'
  end: '969'
  translation: The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Tain Bo Cualnge
  notes: Generated from OpenAI Batch run motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority;
    human review required.
canonical_text:
  quote: ''
  summary: A prefatory note cites a German scholarly statement about the difficulty
    of attaining continuous understanding of the Old Irish text 'The Cattle-Raid of
    Cualnge,' adds a bibliographic note, and then opens the work with the heading
    'Here beginneth Tain Bo Cualnge / The Cualnge Cattle-raid.'
  language: English with a German quoted citation
  quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
  text: The passage includes a German scholarly citation about the Old Irish saga
    text 'Der Rinderraub von Cualnge' and the difficulty of understanding its contents
    with available aids.
  category: speech
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
- id: obs:2
  text: The passage gives a bibliographic note referring to Part II, chapter lxii,
    in a Garnier Hermanos edition, page 711.
  category: other
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:2
- id: obs:3
  text: The narrative text begins with the heading 'Here beginneth Tain Bo Cualnge'
    followed by 'The Cualnge Cattle-raid.'
  category: sequence
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:3
- id: obs:4
  text: The title identifies the work as a cattle-raid associated with Cualnge.
  category: object
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:3
figures: []
roles: []
symbols:
- id: sym:1
  label: Cattle raid
  literal_form: The title phrase 'The Cualnge Cattle-raid'
  associated_figures: []
  taxonomy_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:3
scenes:
- id: scene:1
  label: Opening title of the Tain Bo Cualnge
  summary: After prefatory notes, the text announces the beginning of Tain Bo Cualnge
    and gives the English title 'The Cualnge Cattle-raid.'
  figure_refs: []
  symbol_refs:
  - sym:1
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:3
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
  label: Cattle raid as narrative frame
  taxonomy_refs: []
  basis: The only explicit narrative content in the passage is the opening title identifying
    the work as a cattle-raid of Cualnge.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:3
  confidence: medium
  cautions: This passage is mostly prefatory and titular; it does not yet narrate
    the raid, theft, participants, or consequences.
comparison_claims: []
evidence:
- id: ev:1
  type: summary
  locator: lines 948-956
  quote_or_summary: German citation stating that no living Celtic scholar could claim
    a continuous understanding of the important Old Irish saga text 'The Cattle-Raid
    of Cualnge' comparable to expectations once placed on German students regarding
    Homeric poems.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/celtic-irish/project-gutenberg/tain-bo-cualnge-dunn.md
  rights_note: Public domain source; summarized rather than quoted at length.
- id: ev:2
  type: citation
  locator: line 958
  quote_or_summary: 'Bibliographic note: Part II, chapter lxii, Garnier Hermanos edition,
    page 711.'
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/celtic-irish/project-gutenberg/tain-bo-cualnge-dunn.md
  rights_note: Public domain source.
- id: ev:3
  type: quote
  locator: lines 964-969
  quote_or_summary: '"Here beginneth Tain Bo Cualnge"; "The Cualnge Cattle-raid"'
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/celtic-irish/project-gutenberg/tain-bo-cualnge-dunn.md
  rights_note: Public domain source; short excerpt used for identification.
confidence:
  extraction: high
  motif_candidates: medium
  comparison_claims: high
  notes: The passage is largely bibliographic and titular. Literal extraction is straightforward,
    but motif identification is limited to the title's cattle-raid frame.
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 figures or plot actions are introduced in this line range beyond the opening title.
  batch_run_id=motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority
  custom_id=motif_extract:celtic-irish-tain-bo-cualnge-dunn-gutenberg__l948-l969
  passage_sha256=d756a7b6db24a571767f3fbc158f9000993ccef905528b22e5890add0973f2f6