{
  "id": "story.narrative",
  "term": "story",
  "sense": "narrative",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 13,
  "arena": "definition",
  "domain": "mind",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a series of events about people that are said in language to share meaning",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "event.occurrence",
      "people.social",
      "language.communication",
      "said.speech",
      "says.speech",
      "series.ordered",
      "mean.signify",
      "meaning.significance",
      "share.distribution"
    ],
    "interaction": "the events about people are said in language, forming an ordered series",
    "novel_properties": [
      "shared significance",
      "sequential representation",
      "communicated intent"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Iliad was recited for centuries by bards across ancient Greek cities, transmitting values and history through structured verse.",
      "domain": "culture"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 2008 U.S. presidential election campaign used personal anecdotes in speeches to frame political messages and connect with voters.",
      "domain": "politics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Linux kernel's changelog documents thousands of code changes, explaining each update in narrative form for developer coordination.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "content.material",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "stories",
    "story"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "definition",
      "note": "added missing constitutive concepts from definition to components; definition kept as is because accurate and not padded"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-story.narrative"
}