The phrase "a basic story of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when introducing a simple or fundamental narrative about a particular subject or theme.
Example: "The book presents a basic story of friendship and loyalty amidst adversity."
Alternatives: "a simple tale of" or "an essential narrative of".
Bornkamm used this Redaction Criticism, he was one of the first pioneers of using this method and calling it by this term to say, compare Matthew with what he gets from Mark and what you do is you see that what was just a miracle story, just a basic story about the power of Jesus, has now become a moral story about the church.
And don't get me wrong, this is an extremely important book, but it is too short, too much of a basic story and it is only the bare minimum of what SHOULD be written about.
Beyond the mystique and the mania lies a more basic story — of perseverance, hard work and self-belief.
The latter was a tall tower consisting of the vertical repetition of a basic story unit in regularly diminishing proportions.
Think of a basic story idea.
One for the Road, on the other hand, is set after the events of Salem's Lot: a much more basic story of a family lost in the abandoned town during a snowstorm, it's an effective and neat ending to the more ambiguous conclusion of the original novel, offering hints as to whether Ben and Mark succeeded in their mission at the end of Salem's Lot.
The absence of the stilted dialogue is in fact a mercy, and the basic story, of madness and terror overtaking the three as "the sun glares down overhead like a great angry eye of God," as O'Neill memorably puts it, is easy enough to follow.
"The basic story of a deep recession followed by a lackluster recovery is essentially unchanged," said Nariman Behravesh, chief economist at IHS.
Just your basic story of a referee being run over by a runaway golf cart on a football field in Springfield, Oregon.
And instead of trying to find visual equivalents for the nuances of James's prose, Wyler adds his own sorts of embellishments and complications to the basic story of a timid spinster, her overbearing father and a suspiciously ardent suitor.
