Description
Compare supplied chronological and telling-order ranks.
Comparative-literature annotations connect editions, passages, speakers, structural frames and count units. Literal keys and normalized lengths can support consistent records while textual meaning, translation fidelity and bibliographic authority remain matters for source-aware editorial analysis.
Compare supplied chronological and telling-order ranks.
When to use this tool
Use Fictional Chronology Telling Order Gap when checking a supplied literary annotation, cross-edition offset or count convention.
How to use the tool and how it works
- Enter eventIds, chronology, telling. Keep parallel arrays aligned. Use the units and conventions below.
- Run the tool. Correct any format, range, or cross-field input error before interpreting the output.
- Read displacements, inversions. Use the output convention below.
Compare supplied chronological and telling-order ranks. Require aligned arrays and unique event IDs/ranks in each order; displacements = telling-chronology, inversions count pairs whose two rank differences have opposite signs.1
| Input field | Meaning and units | Accepted input |
|---|---|---|
| eventIds | Event Ids | Required. Array of text; maximum UTF-16 length 8192; maximum items 256. |
| chronology | Chronology | Required. Array of safe integer; maximum items 256. |
| telling | Telling | Required. Array of safe integer; maximum items 256. |
| Output field | Interpretation | Returned shape |
|---|---|---|
| displacements | Displacements | Required. Array of safe integer; maximum items 256. |
| inversions | Inversions | Required. Safe integer. |
{
"input": {
"eventIds": [
"A",
"B",
"C"
],
"chronology": [
1,
2,
3
],
"telling": [
2,
1,
3
]
},
"output": {
"displacements": [
1,
-1,
0
],
"inversions": 1
}
}Limitations and assumptions
- Ranks are supplied and need not be contiguous; no narrative chronology or significance is inferred from prose.
- Inputs must satisfy both the field types and the cross-field conditions above. Invalid input causes an error; a successful false flag or documented placeholder is a different result.
Alternative or Complementary methods
Inspect the source editions and their annotation/counting policy for substantive literary, translation or provenance conclusions.
References
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