Do you agree with this theory?

Meanings drawn from sentences - 'Stars' as against logical reasoning.

Consider this sentence - John gave the resignation letter to his boss.

The first meaning of this that strikes you, and strikes you lightning-fast, is that John is leaving his job.

Similarly, upon hearing that 'He presented the Nobel Prize to Mr. James' the first meaning that comes to your mind's notice is that Mr. James is a Nobel Laureate. And upon hearing that 'Jack left a suicide note', the meaning occurs to you instantly that Jack is no longer alive.

What explains this? The popular reason-based explanation given is - when does one give a resignation letter? When one is leaving his job. Hence that flash in the mind, upon reading that sentence which talks about giving a resignation letter. Similarly, when does someone get a Nobel Prize? When does someone leave/write a suicide note?

I go against this explanation by arguing that - consider a normal sentence like 'John gave a book to Mary'. Here nothing comes to the mind's notice like the  strikes or flashes in those examples above. Does that mean it crosses your mind 'when are books given?' and no special or particular answer comes up, and so you keep quiet and hence there is no flash? It doesn't even cross your mind for a second, something odd (i.e. commonsense-wise odd) like 'when are books given by someone to someone?' (upon hearing the sentence).

So here is my theory to explain the above phenomenon - 

I propose something like 'Stars' in the data which catch your attention. These stars relate to your important personal concerns, or important experiences (not necessary having gone through them personally) of the past. Some stars are universal stars i.e. stars for all; for example, Nobel Prize, world cup, suicide note etc. These things have had an impact on everyone's minds and are thus part of their experiences or concerns of life. There might be some stars specific to the individual.

If there is a star in a sentence (or data in general), without any particular context, you draw forth an implication related to the star, about the story. 

One question comes up - Why is an implication always possible/existing? Stars, in line of their very definitions, have something unique connected to them. 

So when you hear 'John gave his resignation letter to his boss', immediately, the universal star - 'resignation letter (which is an impact word) - gets caught and an implication related to it about the story described is drawn which bears a unique connection to the leaving of job, and which predominates all other processes in the mind. Similarly, the star 'Nobel Prize' brings to mind the meaning of Mr. James being a Nobel laureate and the star 'suicide note' brings to mind the meaning - John's death. When there is no star, as in 'John gave a book to Mary', nothing lights up and nothing crosses the mind, leading to no particular or immediate meaning being drawn forth. 

This, in one way, goes further to case-based reasoning because case-based reasoning does overlap with the explanation of the reasoning when stars are present (since the personal concerns and experiences are ultimately cases from the past, in your life), but in case of something regular and commonplace like giving a book it sort of becomes unclear. That is, one has experienced instances of someone giving a book to someone, in his past. Does that mean one will be drawn forth? And more importantly, what would one do with (draw what meaning with) a drawn-forth another regular and commonplace instance of someone giving a book to someone, to supplement the already present commonplace information that John gave a book to Mary?

2 points : 

1) Books might be a star for some overly avid book reader and light up his mind upon hearing the sentence - John gave a book to Mary - in which case he might draw forth some quirky meaning about the act.

2) Whenever something "regular" or "normal" or commonplace comes before you, it doesnt proactively cross your mind that 'this is normal' (unless the context you are in presupposes that you are going to come across something special in there).