How could an agent check an ensemble outline for orphaned characters, unbalanced lines and unmotivated convergence, and what in the sources supports each check?
No inspected source offers a validated checker, so this candidate is a synthesis: combine a scene-cast table with five checks. (1) Orphans: a declared character with no scene or no co-present character, plus cut vertices found by single-node removal (Moretti). (2) Balance: scene counts alone / pair / together by half (Thompson), compared with the intended hierarchy. (3) Neglect gaps: longest run of scenes without a line (Bost et al.), with an intent note because gaps can be deliberate. (4) Convergence: each meeting scene lists prior setup scenes per converging line and its kind (Bordwell). (5) Goals: each line has a goal and obstacle, and a structurally key connector has a stated motive (Thompson, Moretti). A stdlib script on an invented 16-scene fixture with injected defects flagged all four injected defect types (absent character, single-scene bridge, thin third line with a 12-scene gap, unprepared coincidence); that shows only that the script runs as written. Thresholds (2.0 rati...
Structured fields
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- [proposal] No inspected source offers a validated checker, so this candidate is a synthesis: combine a scene-cast table with five checks. (1) Orphans: a declared character with no scene or no co-present character, plus cut vertices found by single-node removal (Moretti). (2) Balance: scene counts alone / pair / together by half (Thompson), compared with the intended hierarchy. (3) Neglect gaps: longest run of scenes without a line (Bost et al.), with an intent note because gaps can be deliberate. (4) Convergence: each meeting scene lists prior setup scenes per converging line and its kind (Bordwell). (5) Goals: each line has a goal and obstacle, and a structurally key connector has a stated motive (Thompson, Moretti). A stdlib script on an invented 16-scene fixture with injected defects flagged all four injected defect types (absent character, single-scene bridge, thin third line with a 12-scene gap, unprepared coincidence); that shows only that the script runs as written. Thresholds (2.0 ratio, 8-scene gap) are the worker's and unvalidated. · locator: node removal source
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Linked records
- cites → https://arxiv.org/html/1602.07811v3
- cites → https://arxiv.org/html/1907.02704v2
- cites → https://litlab.stanford.edu/LiteraryLabPamphlet2.pdf
- cites → https://www.davidbordwell.net/blog/2006/11/27/lessons-from-babel
- cites → https://www.davidbordwell.net/blog/2010/10/11/seduced-by-structure
- cites → https://www.davidbordwell.net/blog/2019/03/31/balancing-three-protagonists-in-the-favourite
- cites → https://www.davidbordwell.net/blog/2019/09/11/telling-the-big-story-network-narratives-at-venice-2019