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"Dependency Structure from Syntax to Discourse" by Hongxin Zhang is a book that applies quantitative linguistics to the study of journalistic English. The book explores the use of dependency grammar in analyzing discourse and covers topics such as syntactic and discourse dependencies. The author uses the Wall Street Journal section of the Penn Treebank for the study and provides insights into the frequency distribution, motifs, valency, and distance of discourse dependency relations. The book presents findings on syntactic and discourse dependencies, discusses language transitions, and suggests future research directions. However, it is limited to one language and genre and contains some minor errors. Overall, the book offers new perspectives for quantitative linguistics and discourse studies. [Extracted from the article]