As a small boy in Barbados, Neville and three other boys rode a male donkey each Sunday to his grandmother's for a coin, and he spent his penny paying a man with a female donkey to give them a wild ride home; his mother told him he would never have anything because he gave everything away.
Date (happened)
c. 1910
stated · preferred
Source
"When I was a little boy", told in Behold the Dreamer Cometh (nid 1439)
between 1910 and 1919
stated · probable
Told / reported
14 April 1969
stated · doubtful
Source
Behold the Dreamer Cometh (nid 1439), telling 1439-5, told 1969-04-14
14 April 1969
stated · doubtful
Source
Behold the Dreamer Cometh (nid 1439), telling 1439-5, told 1969-04-14
Why
Corrects the confidence of the told claim written by run `corpus v1 / phase3b` at delta 0 on this event; that claim is left standing per append-only. Ceiling rule #2132.
Reasoning
Confidence only; the date is not re-adjudicated and is left exactly as written. This claim is derived from the delivery claims of node 1439 and asserts `certain`, but the strongest claim that node carries is `probable`, so there is nothing for `certain` to inherit from. nid 1439 delivery claims: 1969-4-14 doubtful; 1969-9-19 probable. Walked back to `probable`, the ceiling. Whether the DATE is right is a separate question this row does not touch; if the evidence turns out to support more confidence, it will have to come from a source other than this node.
19 September 1969
estimated · probable
Why
Lane L7 (#2354) re-derivation. Supersedes in substance, not in storage, the refuted-date told claim(s) on this event; those rows stand per append-only.
Reasoning
Re-derived, not walked down. The existing told claim(s) on this event took their date from a delivery claim on node 1758 that the corpus has since REFUTED, so the corpus was asserting that Neville told this on a day it separately says he did not lecture. That is a contradiction rather than an over-confidence, and lowering the confidence would have hidden it instead of resolving it. The refutation stands and the told claim is the wrong side of it. Node 1758 surviving (non-refuted) claim: 1969-9-19 at `probable`. All claims on the node: 1965-2-23 refuted; 1969-9-19 probable (preferred). Superseded here: delta 0: 1965-02-23 at `certain` (run `corpus v1 / phase3b`) | delta 1: 1965-02-23 at `probable` (run `v1.1/l4/ceiling/c2`). The telling is dated by its lecture, so with the refuted date removed from consideration the surviving claim is what the telling inherits, at that claim own confidence and no higher.
23 February 1965
stated · refuted
Reasoning
|| v1.1/l7/told-close: the delivery claim this was derived from (nid 1758, 1965-2-23) was refuted by the L7 adjudication (#2363). The corrected told claim from the same lecture stands at 1969-9-19. This row is retired rather than deleted so the derivation history remains readable.
Sources
Source
- Dreamer 2 ¶17 (When I was a little boy in the island of Barbados, every Sunday four of us boys would ride a big male donkey we used to sire horses to produce mules, down to my grandmother’s house, where she would give each of us a coin.)
- Dreamer 2 ¶17 (Mother found it out, and one day she said to me, “You know, Nev, you aren’t going to have anything in this world; you give everything away.”)