Narrative Acts as the Building Blocks of Stories
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Narratological studies dealing with the story itself, the fabula, have become increasingly scarce in recent years. By revisiting classic narratological models, we identify the concept of narrative act, an "action upon an action", as a fundamental element of narrative transformation. We then draw up a systematic inventory of them, in the form of a broad typology organized into a set of interlocking models, each of which enriches the description of the fabula actions. In this modeling work, we emphasize the narrative nature of acts, in the sense that they are not simply speech acts or types of actions by an agent in social interaction. Notably, these narrative acts have their own narrative characteristics: dilation on the one hand, and the mise en abyme of the discourse on the other hand. More than 600 narrative acts have been found and grouped under twenty models. In order to provide a tangible access to this large set, a web-based interactive visualization has been implemented, offering a simple way to browse through the hundreds of narrative acts.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it