Narrative Temporal

@hypit/narrative-temporal owns the public relation between Narrative boundary identities, finite source-local domains and one absolute Timeline. It contains no speech, media, Caption or rendering policy.

NarrativeAlignment locates Narrative boundaries on one LocalTemporalDomain. NarrativeProjection maps one or more explicit NarrativeAlignment + LocalTemporalDomain + Window relations onto one Timeline. Narrative Selections, Moments and Segments can then project to ordinary absolute TemporalInstant and TemporalWindow values before a general component consumes them.

<import as="semantic" from="@hypit/narrative-temporal@1"/>
<semantic:Projection id="story-time" narrative={story} timeline={program.timeline}>
  <semantic:Map alignment={opening.alignment} domain={opening.domain} window={program.opening}/>
</semantic:Projection>
<semantic:Window id="proof" projection={story-time} during={story.selection.proof}/>
<semantic:Instant id="claim" projection={story-time} at={story.moment.claim}/>

The Projection owns only its Maps and publishes one reusable interpretation context. Independent declarations explicitly choose that Projection when revealing a semantic object. proof is an ordinary TemporalWindow; claim is an ordinary TemporalInstant. General visual, audio, caption and typography components consume those values without receiving the Projection or learning Narrative source kinds. Selection/Segment/Moment dispatch remain owned here. The completed Projection stores absolute boundaries and no reusable local-to-absolute mapping identity.

Projection reveals the exact semantic boundary. Author offsets remain ordinary absolute-time composition: reveal the boundary first, then use a standalone time:Instant with at={claim} offset="+5f" when that separate relationship is needed.

Speech Alignment is one producer of NarrativeAlignment; reviewed, manually authored or imported relations use the same Type without pretending to be speech. Timeline and common Temporal packages do not enumerate Narrative event kinds.