Cool idea! I used to do something a long time ago: use a little-known option of ctags (-r) to match wikiWords, so that hitting C-] in vim or M-. in emacs with the cursor on say 'databaseSubsystem' would take you to '$<databaseSubsystem>' in the codebase.
The nice thing about it is that a name could potentially belong to multiple different tags/narratives. Multiple overlapping trails is a pretty decent way to narrate an intrinsically non-linear thing like a codebase. See also http://leoeditor.com.
