batch.motif.sufi-rumi-mesnevi-book-1-redhouse-gutenberg-l5750-l5874
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record_id: batch.motif.sufi-rumi-mesnevi-book-1-redhouse-gutenberg-l5750-l5874
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/mesnevi-book-1-redhouse.md
passage_locator:
label: OF QONYA. / PREFACE. / IN THE NAME OF GOD, / THE ALL-MERCIFUL, THE VERY-COMPASSIONATE.;
lines 5750-5874
start: '5750'
end: '5874'
translation: The Mesnevi
notes: Generated from OpenAI Batch run motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority;
human review required.
canonical_text:
quote: ''
summary: A physician questions a lovesick maid while monitoring her bodily reactions,
discovers her attachment to a goldsmith in Samarqand, promises secrecy and relief,
and advises the prince to summon the goldsmith with honors and gold. The goldsmith
is lured from home, received with offices, married to the maid, and after six
months the physician gives him a potion that makes him decline. The passage closes
with moral reflections on outward beauty as an unreliable basis for love and with
examples of creatures killed for prized outward features.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: The physician prompts the maid to recount places and people from her past
while noting her pulse.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: The name Samarqand causes the maid's cheeks and pulse to react, revealing
her connection to a young goldsmith there.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:3
text: The physician asks for the youth's abode, and the maid locates him at Holywell
near Bridge-end's public road.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:4
text: The physician promises to help the maid, tells her not to disclose the secret,
and cites a prophetic maxim about keeping secrets.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:5
text: The physician tells the prince the learned cause of the maid's illness and
advises summoning the goldsmith with an offer of trust, honor, and gold.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:6
text: Two trustworthy messengers travel to Samarqand and deliver the prince's invitation
to the goldsmith.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:7
text: Gold and a dress of honor persuade the goldsmith to leave home; the narrator
states that he does not know the fate awaiting him.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:8
text: After arrival, the goldsmith is received by the prince and named mint-master,
treasurer, and mayor.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:9
text: The maid is given to the goldsmith; they are formally united, and her health
improves over six months.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: obs:10
text: The physician mixes a potion for the goldsmith, after which the goldsmith's
health declines and his body becomes thin.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: obs:11
text: The passage states that love based on outward, skin-deep charms is not true
love.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: obs:12
text: 'The passage gives examples of animals harmed or killed for valued outward
features: peacock plumage, musk-deer musk, marten fur, and elephant ivory.'
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: physician / doctor / leech
description: A skilled physician who diagnoses the maid's hidden love, counsels
secrecy, advises the prince, and later prepares a potion for the goldsmith.
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:2
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:9
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: maid / maiden / handmaid
description: A sick young woman whose bodily signs reveal love for a goldsmith from
Samarqand and whose health improves after union with him.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:8
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: prince
description: The ruler who receives the physician's report, sends messengers for
the goldsmith, grants him offices, and gives the maid to him.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:7
- ev:8
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: goldsmith youth
description: A skilled artisan from Samarqand who is summoned with gifts, leaves
home, receives offices, is united with the maid, and later declines after a potion.
role_refs:
- role:5
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:5
- ev:6
- ev:7
- ev:8
- ev:9
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: two trustworthy messengers
description: Sedate, fair-spoken messengers sent by the prince to Samarqand to bring
the goldsmith.
role_refs:
- role:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: holy Prophet
description: Cited as the source of a maxim about the success of one who keeps a
secret.
role_refs:
- role:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: peacock, musk-deer, marten, elephant
description: Animals invoked as examples of creatures endangered by prized outward
features.
role_refs:
- role:10
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
roles:
- id: role:1
label: diagnostic healer
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: He questions the maid and monitors her pulse to learn the cause of her illness.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: role:2
label: counselor and confidant
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: He promises aid, tells the maid to keep the secret, and reassures her.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: role:3
label: lovesick patient
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: Her pulse and color change at the name Samarqand, revealing love for the
goldsmith; her health later improves after union.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:8
- id: role:4
label: ruler who acts on counsel
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: He accepts the doctor's plan, sends messengers, and later grants offices
and the maid.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:7
- ev:8
- id: role:5
label: summoned beloved artisan
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: The goldsmith is the youth loved by the maid and is summoned for his skill.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:5
- id: role:6
label: preparer of harmful potion
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: The doctor mixes a potion after which the goldsmith declines.
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: role:7
label: unwitting victim of fatal invitation
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: The gifts win his heart and he travels joyfully, unaware that the journey
leads toward doom.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: role:8
label: envoys
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: They are sent to Samarqand and convey the prince's message.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: role:9
label: cited moral authority
assigned_to:
- fig:6
basis: The physician invokes the Prophet's maxim about keeping secrets.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: role:10
label: moral exempla
assigned_to:
- fig:7
basis: The animals illustrate the danger attached to prized outward features.
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: pulse as bodily sign
literal_form: The maid's pulse remaining normal or beating high in response to named
places.
associated_figures:
- fig:2
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: sym:2
label: secret held in the heart
literal_form: The physician tells the maid to keep the knowledge in her heart's
core.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: sym:3
label: seed hidden in earth before growth
literal_form: A seed committed to the earth before field or garden can be seen.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: sym:4
label: gold and dress of honor
literal_form: Gifts sent by the prince that persuade the goldsmith to leave home.
associated_figures:
- fig:3
- fig:4
- fig:5
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
- id: sym:5
label: potion
literal_form: A potion mixed by the physician for the goldsmith, followed by bodily
decline.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:4
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: sym:6
label: water imagery
literal_form: Spring, stream, showers, and streams of tears used in the passage's
imagery.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:4
taxonomy_refs:
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- ev:9
- id: sym:7
label: prized outward features
literal_form: Peacock plumage, musk-deer musk-pod, marten fur, and elephant ivory.
associated_figures:
- fig:7
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Diagnostic questioning of the maid
summary: The physician asks the maid about places, people, and events from her past
while observing her pulse for signs of emotional reaction.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: scene:2
label: Samarqand reveals the hidden beloved
summary: The maid reacts bodily to the name Samarqand, and the physician identifies
her attachment to a young goldsmith there.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:4
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: scene:3
label: Promise of secrecy and help
summary: The physician reassures the maid, tells her to conceal the secret, and
supports the advice with a maxim and images of hidden seed and hidden precious
metals.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:6
symbol_refs:
- sym:2
- sym:3
- sym:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: scene:4
label: Prince sends for the goldsmith
summary: The physician reports the cause of the maid's illness and advises the prince
to invite the goldsmith with honor and gold; messengers carry this summons to
Samarqand.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:3
- fig:4
- fig:5
symbol_refs:
- sym:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
- id: scene:5
label: Goldsmith accepts the fatal invitation
summary: The gifts win the goldsmith's heart, and he leaves home happily, unaware
that the journey is described as leading to doom.
figure_refs:
- fig:4
- fig:5
symbol_refs:
- sym:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: scene:6
label: Reception, offices, and union
summary: The goldsmith arrives, is honored with high offices, and is united with
the maid, whose health improves over six months.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
- fig:4
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:8
- id: scene:7
label: Potion and decline
summary: The physician gives the goldsmith a potion; his health and appearance decline,
and the passage comments that love based only on external beauty is not true love.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:4
symbol_refs:
- sym:5
- sym:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: scene:8
label: Animal exempla of dangerous beauty
summary: The passage compares the goldsmith's loss of valued appearance to animals
harmed for coveted features such as plumage, musk, fur, and ivory.
figure_refs:
- fig:4
- fig:7
symbol_refs:
- sym:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: hidden love diagnosed through bodily signs
taxonomy_refs:
- wisdom
basis: The physician uses questions and pulse-observation to identify the maid's
concealed love for the goldsmith.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
confidence: high
cautions: The taxonomy reference is broad; the passage presents diagnostic skill
and discernment rather than an explicit abstract wisdom motif.
- id: motif:2
label: secret-keeping as condition of success
taxonomy_refs:
- wisdom
basis: The physician instructs the maid to keep the secret and cites a prophetic
maxim that one who keeps a secret has speedy success.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
confidence: medium
cautions: This is stated as moral counsel within the passage, not as a full narrative
motif by itself.
- id: motif:3
label: fatal summons disguised as honor
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: The prince's honors and gold induce the goldsmith to leave home, while the
narrator says he is hastening to doom.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
confidence: high
cautions: The passage gives no explicit external motif-family label for this pattern.
- id: motif:4
label: healing by union with the beloved
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: The maid is united with the goldsmith and her health improves over six months.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
confidence: medium
cautions: The episode is embedded in a larger plot that subsequently harms the goldsmith,
so the healing is temporary and narratively complicated.
- id: motif:5
label: outward beauty as cause of destruction
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: The goldsmith's fading beauty leads to loss of the maid's attachment, and
the passage gives animals killed for prized outward qualities as examples.
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- ev:10
confidence: high
cautions: This is an explicit moral pattern in the passage, though not tied to a
supplied taxonomy motif family.
comparison_claims: []
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: lines 5750-5763
quote_or_summary: The physician asks the maid about memories, home, friends, and
places while listening and noting her pulse to detect any name that raises a reaction.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/mesnevi-book-1-redhouse.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summary used.
- id: ev:2
type: quote
locator: lines 5764-5778
quote_or_summary: "“Till Samarqand’s name made her cheeks to glow, / Her pulse beat
high”; she had been the flame of a goldsmith youth and gives his abode."
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/mesnevi-book-1-redhouse.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short excerpt used.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: lines 5779-5794
quote_or_summary: The physician promises to act as guardian, tells the maid not
to reveal the secret, cites the Prophet's maxim on keeping secrets, and compares
hidden success to seed in earth and precious metals being hard to find.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/mesnevi-book-1-redhouse.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summary used.
- id: ev:4
type: summary
locator: lines 5795-5809
quote_or_summary: After soothing the maid, the physician tells the prince the source
of her illness and advises sending for the goldsmith with an offer of a trusted
post, honor, and gold.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/mesnevi-book-1-redhouse.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summary used.
- id: ev:5
type: summary
locator: lines 5810-5820
quote_or_summary: Two trustworthy messengers go to Samarqand, find the goldsmith,
praise his skill, and convey the prince's invitation to guide the mint along with
a dress of honor and gold.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/mesnevi-book-1-redhouse.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summary used.
- id: ev:6
type: quote
locator: lines 5821-5831
quote_or_summary: "“The gold and dress of honour won his heart”; he travels joyfully,
while the narrator warns, “Thou hastest to thy doom.”"
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/mesnevi-book-1-redhouse.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short excerpt used.
- id: ev:7
type: summary
locator: lines 5832-5838
quote_or_summary: The doctor leads the arrived goldsmith to the prince, who receives
him nobly and names him mint-master, treasurer, and mayor.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/mesnevi-book-1-redhouse.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summary used.
- id: ev:8
type: summary
locator: lines 5839-5848
quote_or_summary: The physician advises leaving the damsel to the youth for service;
the prince gives the sick one to her mate, they are united, and her health improves
over six months.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/mesnevi-book-1-redhouse.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summary used.
- id: ev:9
type: quote
locator: lines 5849-5863
quote_or_summary: "“The doctor, now, a potion mixed for him. / His health declines”;
the passage says love built on “outer skin-deep charms” is not true love and describes
the goldsmith's tears."
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/mesnevi-book-1-redhouse.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short excerpt used.
- id: ev:10
type: summary
locator: lines 5864-5874
quote_or_summary: The passage lists the peacock harmed by plumage, the musk-deer
slain for musk, the marten trapped for fur, and the elephant killed for ivory.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/mesnevi-book-1-redhouse.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summary used.
confidence:
extraction: high
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: uncertain
notes: The narrative sequence and roles are explicit in the supplied passage. Motif
labels are candidate abstractions and require human review. No external comparison
claims were made because the passage itself does not support a specific comparative
link beyond its own exempla.
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. Taxonomy references were applied only where the available list broadly matched explicit passage material.
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