Stories fundamentally revolve around recounting actions. At their core, they tell what someone did—specific deeds performed by characters or individuals in a sequence of events. This focus on "did" emphasizes verbs as the driving force: running, fighting, deciding, loving, betraying, or discovering. Without these actions, there is no progression, no conflict, and no resolution. The narrative emerges precisely from chaining these deeds together into a coherent flow that engages the reader or listener. This observation highlights how stories are built on the foundation of verifiable or imagined actions, making the "doing" the essential element that distinguishes storytelling from mere description or static imagery. Feynman describes it as Time is a bookkeeping system.

More broadly, this pattern suggests a deeper connection where Verbs are stories without the narrative - stories in a stripped-down form.