Narration structure as the tiebreaker between cipher & (synthetic) language

[crezac]

I would think a basic grammar, a few nouns and a few verbs would be the minimum to look for signs of narrative structure.  You would provably want to start by looking for labels on images that are repeated frequently in the text.  Then look at the words in the text before and after the label words and see if there's any association with them and any words you can identify as noun candidates.  Refine as necessarily. 

The verbs don't need to be that close to the nouns so it's really needles and haystacks without some vocabulary.  And there may not be any needles.  Just because you have natural language doesn't guarantee you have narrative too.  Rather than a plant image having directions or a cute story attached it might be nothing but a list of nouns.

For example (red earth) (wet earth) (shady place) (June night) (purgative) (vermifuge) (poison) (poison) (long stem) (thick root) (new bloom) (proper name of angel) (proper name of second angel) (stomach) (liver) (blood)

I think Stephen Bax is on the right track in trying to find meanings for labels as a starting point.  I don't think there is compelling evidence he has found any yet, but I do agree he's looking in the right place.  I think you're probably going to have to do the same too before asking if there is narrative structure in VMS.