If Stories describe actions through what someone did, then verbs can be modeled as the distilled essence of stories, functioning like miniature narratives stripped of all surrounding structure. A story provides context, characters, setting, and connective tissue to create a full narrative arc, but at its heart lies action—what someone did. Verbs encapsulate this pure action: they imply agency, change, and movement without needing the elaborate scaffolding of plot, dialogue, or exposition. In this analogy, a verb like "betrayed" or "conquered" holds the emotional and dynamic core of an entire tale, evoking conflict and consequence in isolation. This model simplifies storytelling to its atomic level, revealing verbs as self-contained sparks of story potential that narratives expand upon.

However, this may be limited since it's also true that Babies do not thrive unless spoken to.