batch.motif.persian-sadi-gulistan-ross-gutenberg-l1998-l2018
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record_id: batch.motif.persian-sadi-gulistan-ross-gutenberg-l1998-l2018
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/persian/project-gutenberg/gulistan-sadi-ross.md
passage_locator:
label: XXVIII / XXXIII / XXXIV / XXXVI; lines 1998-2018
start: '1998'
end: '2018'
translation: The Persian Literature, Volume 2, The Gulistan
notes: Generated from OpenAI Batch run motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority;
human review required.
canonical_text:
quote: ''
summary: A fatigued and hungry dervish arrives at the house of a hospitable man
during a gathering of learned and witty guests. Asked to contribute something,
the dervish recites a brief distich about hunger before a spread table. The company
applauds and orders food for him. When the host asks him to wait for prepared
forced meat, the dervish says plain bread is enough for someone baked by desert
travel.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: A dervish comes to stay at a house whose master is described as hospitable.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: The house contains an assembly of learned and witty guests who are repeating
jests or anecdotes.
category: setting
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:3
text: The dervish has travelled across a desert and is very fatigued and nearly
famished.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:4
text: One member of the company asks the dervish to repeat something.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:5
text: The dervish says he is not overstocked with learning or wit, is not much read
in books, and offers to recite one distich.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:6
text: The dervish's distich compares his hungry position beside a spread table with
a bachelor at the entrance of a bath full of women.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:7
text: The company applauds the dervish and orders the tray to be placed before him.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:8
text: The host asks the dervish to restrain his appetite while handmaids prepare
forced meat.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: obs:9
text: The dervish replies that forced meat is unnecessary and that plain bread is
sufficient for one baked in the desert.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: dervish
description: A travelling dervish who arrives fatigued and hungry after crossing
a desert, recites a distich, and asks for plain bread rather than prepared meat.
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- ev:5
- ev:6
- ev:9
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: master of the house / lord of the feast
description: The hospitable householder who hosts the gathering and tells the dervish
to wait while food is prepared.
role_refs:
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:8
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: learned and witty guests
description: An assembly of guests who tell jests or anecdotes, prompt the dervish
to speak, applaud him, and order a tray before him.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:4
- ev:7
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: handmaids
description: Servants mentioned by the host as able to prepare forced meat for the
dervish.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
roles:
- id: role:1
label: hungry traveller
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: The dervish has crossed a desert and is described as fatigued and nearly
famished.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: role:2
label: hospitable host
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: The master of the house is described as hospitable and provides for the guest.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:8
- id: role:3
label: convivial audience
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: The guests exchange witty anecdotes, invite the dervish to speak, and applaud
him.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:4
- ev:7
- id: role:4
label: plain-spoken wit
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: The dervish claims little learning or book knowledge but responds with a
pointed distich and a concise reply about bread.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
- ev:9
- id: role:5
label: food preparers
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: The host says his handmaids can prepare forced meat.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: desert hardship
literal_form: desert crossed by the dervish
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:9
- id: sym:2
label: spread table and tray
literal_form: table spread with food; tray placed before the dervish
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:7
- id: sym:3
label: plain bread
literal_form: crust of plain bread
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: sym:4
label: bath full of women image
literal_form: bachelor at the entrance of a bath full of women
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: sym:5
label: forced meat
literal_form: prepared forced meat offered by the host
associated_figures:
- fig:2
- fig:4
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- ev:9
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Arrival at a hospitable house
summary: A dervish arrives at a hospitable man's house, where learned and witty
guests are assembled.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: scene:2
label: Prompted distich
summary: After desert travel has left him exhausted and hungry, the dervish is asked
to contribute to the conversation and recites a distich about hunger before food.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:3
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
- sym:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:6
- id: scene:3
label: Food offered and plain bread requested
summary: The company applauds and places a tray before the dervish. The host proposes
a prepared dish, but the dervish says plain bread is enough after desert hardship.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
- fig:4
symbol_refs:
- sym:2
- sym:3
- sym:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:8
- ev:9
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: hungry traveller received by a hospitable host
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: The passage centers on a famished dervish arriving after desert travel at
the home of a hospitable man and being given food.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- ev:7
- ev:8
- ev:9
confidence: high
cautions: This is a social-hospitality pattern rather than a named mythic motif
in the supplied taxonomy.
- id: motif:2
label: wit as practical wisdom
taxonomy_refs:
- wisdom
basis: The dervish disclaims learning and book knowledge but uses a brief distich
and direct reply to communicate his need and preference.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
- ev:9
confidence: medium
cautions: The taxonomy link to wisdom is broad; the passage presents worldly wit
more than esoteric or doctrinal wisdom.
- id: motif:3
label: plain sustenance after hardship
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: After the host proposes a prepared meat dish, the dervish says a crust of
plain bread is sufficient because of his desert hardship.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- ev:9
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage supports the pattern literally, but it does not explicitly
frame it as ascetic doctrine or a recurring mythic symbol.
comparison_claims: []
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: lines 1998-2001
quote_or_summary: A dervish comes to lodge where the master of the house is hospitable.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/persian/project-gutenberg/gulistan-sadi-ross.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; summarized.
- id: ev:2
type: summary
locator: lines 2001-2004
quote_or_summary: The host has learned and witty men as guests, and they are telling
jests or anecdotes.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/persian/project-gutenberg/gulistan-sadi-ross.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; summarized.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: lines 2004-2005
quote_or_summary: The dervish has crossed a desert and is very fatigued and nearly
famished.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/persian/project-gutenberg/gulistan-sadi-ross.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; summarized.
- id: ev:4
type: summary
locator: lines 2005-2007
quote_or_summary: One of the company jokingly tells the dervish that he too must
repeat something.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/persian/project-gutenberg/gulistan-sadi-ross.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; summarized.
- id: ev:5
type: summary
locator: lines 2007-2010
quote_or_summary: The dervish says he lacks the others' learning and wit, is not
much read in books, and asks them to accept one distich.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/persian/project-gutenberg/gulistan-sadi-ross.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; summarized.
- id: ev:6
type: quote
locator: lines 2010-2013
quote_or_summary: '"Hungry as I am, I sit by a table spread with food, like a bachelor
at the entrance of a bath full of women!"'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/persian/project-gutenberg/gulistan-sadi-ross.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; short quotation.
- id: ev:7
type: summary
locator: lines 2014-2015
quote_or_summary: The listeners applaud and order the tray to be placed before the
dervish.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/persian/project-gutenberg/gulistan-sadi-ross.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; summarized.
- id: ev:8
type: summary
locator: lines 2015-2017
quote_or_summary: The lord of the feast tells him to restrain his appetite until
the handmaids can prepare forced meat.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/persian/project-gutenberg/gulistan-sadi-ross.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; summarized.
- id: ev:9
type: summary
locator: lines 2017-2018
quote_or_summary: The dervish answers that forced meat is not needed; plain bread
is enough for someone baked in the desert.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/persian/project-gutenberg/gulistan-sadi-ross.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; summarized.
confidence:
extraction: high
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: uncertain
notes: Literal extraction is straightforward. Motif labels are descriptive and should
be reviewed because the passage is an ethical anecdote rather than an explicit
mythic narrative. No comparison claims are made because the passage itself does
not support cross-textual comparison.
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: |-
Used only the supplied passage and metadata. Available taxonomy references were applied only where directly supportable; no symbol taxonomy IDs were used.
batch_run_id=motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority
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