International Journal of Computational Linguistics Research Taisuke Akimoto 8 3 2017 http://www.dline.info/jcl/fulltext/v8n3/jclv8n3_1.pdf This paper proposes a basic and general model of narrative structure representation for computer processing in order to provide a common basis for both generative and analytic processing of narratives. In particular, we address the following two aspects. First, we formalize a multidimensional framework to integrate the three structural aspects of a narrative: the story world, which is the background world structure; the story, which represents chronologically organized events as the content of a narrative; and discourse, which represents the structure used for the expression of a narrative. Second, we propose a hierarchical graph model as a common mode of representing each structural dimension. This model organizes various types of structural elements (e.g., entities, events, and discourse units) by hierarchical grouping and network-like linkage. Then, we discuss the advantages and future challenges of the proposed model from the perspective of representational capacity by presenting several examples based on the experimental implementation of the model.