narration vs relation

narration

noun
  • That which is narrated or recounted; an orderly recital of the details and particulars of some transaction or event, or of a series of transactions or events; a story or narrative. 

  • The act of recounting or relating in order the particulars of some action, occurrence, or affair; a narrating. 

  • That part of an oration in which the speaker makes his or her statement of facts. 

relation

noun
  • The act of relating a story. 

  • The manner in which two things may be associated. 

  • A set of ordered tuples. 

  • A set of ordered tuples retrievable by a relational database; a table. 

  • The act of intercourse. 

  • Specifically, a set of ordered pairs; a binary relation. 

  • A member of one's extended family; a relative. 

  • A statement of equality of two products of generators, used in the presentation of a group. 

  • A subobject of a product of objects. 

How often have the words narration and relation occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )