The article deals with the role of discursive temporality, namely, the necessary time that is needed for the aspect-time conceptualisation of scenes conceived of as be-longing to the past and expressed by linguistic temporality, which in turn is closely associated with the choice of forms and indicators of time. This analysis of selected discourse of narration samples demonstrate an important connection between imagery (on the cognitive and conceptual level), register type (especially mediated register) that is realized in a discourse, and the coexistence of the verb forms that go beyond the so-called norm.