Labov and Waletzky showed that fully formed oral narratives of personal experience share a recurring six-part structure: an optional abstract previews what the story is about; the orientation sets the scene (who, when, where); the complicating action is the sequence of events that carries the plot; evaluation conveys the point and the narrator's stance on why the story matters; the resolution tells how the events turned out; and an optional coda returns the listener to the present.
This scheme is the standard instrument for annotating the architecture of a told story rather than its content. Tag each clause or span with the narrative function it performs. Evaluation is often woven through the other components as asides and intensifiers — code it wherever the narrator steps out of pure event-reporting to signal significance, and reserve complicating action for narrative clauses that advance the temporal sequence.