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Narrative discourse is an aspect how to narrate a story. Various strategies and techniques for narrating are proposed by mainly narrative discourse theory as one of literary theories. But in the framework of narrative discourse theory itself, it is difficult to precisely analyze discourse techniques and organized relationships among them because of methodological limitation. We adopt Genette’s discourse theory as a starting point, and by introducing computational methodology into the literary theory, we do the expansion and precision of the discourse theory. In this paper, we show a trial of computational expansion and precision in some aspects, mainly perspective and duration, of narrative discourse theory, and touch briefly the problem of their integration