Repository path: workshop/translations/uj-pap/u1-R10p-v1/translation.md · rendered 2026-09-09

T-ujpap-u1-R10p-v1 — Mikszáth, «Szent Péter esernyője» I.iii, unit U1, target P

Source. Mikszáth Kálmán, Szent Péter esernyője (1895; this text Révai, 1910), Part I ch. III «Az uj pap Glogován», paragraphs 1–9 = workshop/translations/uj-pap/source-u1.txt, 285 Hungarian words. Project Gutenberg #68911. Public domain. The project's fifteenth source language and its first Hungarian.

Regime. R10 (anchored register target), target P = A-mansfield-garden-party, propositions M01–M11 of E-20260731f-catalogue-reach/claims.json at 109b103. Opportunity list frozen at 8d065a0, before this rendering was begun — the first R10 execution to comply with §6 in the order §6 states.

Position in the arm order: FIRST. This rendering was written before T-ujpap-u1-R10c-v1. On unit U2 the order is reversed. That crossing is the design (ARM-carryover, E-20260731h-carryover).

Contamination: none. Basis, and the basis has two parts.

1. The translator has not opened the published English of this chapter. A published English translation exists and is freely reachable — B. W. Worswick, St. Peter's Umbrella, Jarrold & Sons 1900 / Harper 1901, Project Gutenberg #31945 — and it is used as this experiment's comparator. It was extracted to comparator-worswick-ch3.txt by a program, and its contents were never displayed; only its word count (2,980) and a hash were printed. Chapter I of the same translation was read earlier in the session while materials were being established, which is why chapter I is not the source unit.
2. The selection gate was deliberately NOT run in its selecting form, per note (bel). CLAUDE.md's standing rule is that the lead's contamination on candidate material is measured before a locus is selected. Here the study's own dependent variable is that measurement — E-20260731h compares longest common run with Worswick across regimes and arm positions — so selecting this unit on a low run would condition the sample on the outcome. The measurement is therefore made after all four renderings are frozen and is reported as a result, not as a gate. What the gate protects is preserved by (1): the translator did not open the comparator.

Non-canonicity, which is the other half of CLAUDE.md's constraint. Worswick 1900 is the only English translation of this novel the project located, it is out of print, and it is not canonical in the sense the standing rule uses (contrast Garnett on Turgenev). The lead is therefore not barred from serving as an independent translator here.

Judgment. The lead never judges its own translation (charter §5). Nothing in this file is a quality claim; the log records decisions and alternatives.

Translation

The new reverend gentleman moved in. The Glogova people fetched their priest home on one drab cart, and two little cows with crooked horns were harnessed to it. On the road the sexton, Peter Szlavik, even milked them into a jug and offered some to the young priest.

"Very fine milk it is," said he, "Bimbo's especially. That's a lordly drop, that is — like ambrosia, or whatever they call it."

The new priest's belongings did not come to much: an unpainted deal box was the whole of it, a bundle of bedding, and then two sticks and some pipe-stems tied up with string.

All along the road, in the villages, they kept at the Glogova people:

"Couldn't you good folk have got up a better turnout than that for your priest?"

There was no denying it, the Glogova people were ashamed of the thing, and sooner than own to it they cut back at the young priest's expense:

"Eh, come! It's good enough. A heifer calf could pull that lot, and no mistake."

But if the Reverend Janos Belyi brought no great store of goods to Glogova, he found none there either — nothing but the tumbledown parsonage; the last priest's relations had carried off every stick, and left only a dog, the late incumbent's favourite, a dog like any other to look at, in shape and coat, but which on account of its unlucky disposition had now begun to occupy a certain unpopular and separate station; for, being a thieving creature about food, it went the whole row of houses in turn towards midday, peeping into the kitchens, seeing that its departed master had made it his habit to have himself invited to a different farmer's for dinner every day, and to take his dog along with him.

The dog, Vistula by name — and a pity it was to go so far for a river to name him after, when the glittering Biela-Voda runs across the boundary here — began to learn, and bitterly, that the two of them together, he and the priest, had been worth more than one of them; whereas before, out of dog-philosophy, he had thought it was the reverend gentleman who ate up the food in front of him. So it was, but it was the priest who supplied the standing and the influence! Now they chased Vistula out of the kitchens before he could get to work on anything at all, and now and then they gave him a thrashing besides.

285 Hungarian words → 424 English words.

Translator's log

Frozen before any evaluation of this translation was designed. A = aimed at a numbered proposition; X = a proposition bore on the decision and was not followed; N = no proposition bore on it. A decision is logged when two or more renderings were live at the moment of writing.

Codes: A 22 · X 3 · N 3 · 28 logged decisions. Two of the three X codes (6, 27) are refusals of the P target itself; the third (22) is a refusal of a C proposition inside a P rendering and is recorded because the two catalogues bear on the same site.

Propositions with an opportunity in U1 and no logged decision: M04 (refused at 27), M06 (installed at 8, unforced elsewhere), M10 (installed at 15, 21). M07 and M11 have no opportunity (opportunity.md).