20. The computing system of claim 16 , wherein the computer system is further configured to collect a user-selected set of textual narrative data document and output a social story including a selected sequence of events to a selected set of processing devices based on a defined social relationship.
16. A computing system adapted to analyze narrative textual data, the computing system includes a processor and a storage medium, comprising: a data structure stored in the storage medium including a classification table, the classification table includes a plurality of verbs classified as functional types, at least one functional type characterizes a relationship between a first actor and a second actor in the narrative textual data, the classification table includes at least one semiotic square term for each of the plurality of verbs; the computer system including the processor and the storage medium and a plurality of lines of code that is configured to: collect electronic textual narrative data documents; read a classification data structure, the data structure includes classifications of verbs as functional types, the classification data structure includes one or more words in a semiotic square relationship to the verb classified, the classification data structure includes classifications of at least one verb in each sentence pattern as a functional type, at least one functional type applying a symmetrical relationship between a first actor and a second actor in the narrative data; access a set of event rules, each event rule containing an association of a verb and functional type to an event record; parse each sentence which includes a verb matching a functional type to match sentence subjects and objects to an event rule selected from the set of event rules; store data from each subject and object in a sentence as an event record; analyze the narrative data relative to a common story theme based on a sequence of event records and output an analysis result; and display the analysis of the narrative data to a user using a user perceptible device.