Actions: Bodily Childbirth
Parent Term
Sibling Terms
- Alimentary
- Asthma
- Bathing and/or personal hygiene
- Birth / Being born
- Bleeding
- Blinking
- Blushing
- Breastfeeding
- Breathing
- Caressing
- Chewing
- Choking
- Confessing without words
- Coughing
- Crying
- Decomposition
- Defecation
- Dipping snuff
- Dismemberment
- Drinking
- Drooling
- Dying
- Eating
- Eating breakfast
- Eating supper
- Ejaculating
- Fainting
- Falling
- Fasting
- Feeling pain
- Flatulence
- Gaining weight
- Going to bed
- Grinning
- Groaning
- Healing
- Heart beating
- Hiccups
- Hiding
- Hungering
- Idleness
- Inject
- Insomnia
- Jumping
- Kissing
- Kneeling
- Laughing
- Limping
- Looking
- Losing consciousness
- Losing weight
- Menstruation
- Miscarriage
- Nausea
- Panting
- Playing music
- Pregnancy
- Recoiling
- Regaining consciousness
- Retching
- Running
- Shaking
- Shaving
- Shivering
- Singing
- Sitting
- Sleeping
- Sleeplessness
- Sleepy
- Smelling
- Smoking
- Snoring
- Spitting
- Squatting
- Standing
- Staring
- Starvation
- Stretching
- Swallowing
- Sweating
- Tension
- Thirsting
- Trembling
- Urinating
- Vomiting
- Waking
- Watching
- Weakness
- Work song
Tagged Events
Environment: Time of Year›Summer
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth
Themes and Motifs: Death›Car accident | Death›In childbirth | Objects›Letter | Texts›Letters
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Interaction, Social›Marriage | Movement›Walking | Physical›Building
Themes and Motifs: Death
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild | Marital›Death of spouse
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Bodily›Dying | Emotional›Love | Legal›Marriage | Mental›Speculation | Physical›Burial | Verbal›Storytelling
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular | Figures of Speech›Metaphor
Environment: Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth
Cultural Issues: Gender›Patriarchy | Gender›Reproduction | War›Civil War
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Environment: Time of Day›Dawn
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Communication›Gossip | Emotional›Hero worship | Mental›Imagining
Cultural Issues: Religion›Apotheosis
Themes and Motifs: Character›Opportunism | Objects›Scythe
Aesthetics: Narrative›Repetition
Environment: Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Arrivals/Departures›Leaving home
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Demon | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Violent›Murder
Cultural Issues: Class›Dehumanization | Class›Status, low
Relationships: Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness | Class›Class consciousness | Race›Racial consciousness | Slavery›Labor
Themes and Motifs: Character›Innocence | Memory›Remembering
Relationships: Familial
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Mental›Disorientation
Cultural Issues: Class | Slavery›Big house vs quarters | Slavery›Labor
Themes and Motifs: Inheritance›Traits
Environment: Time of Year›Sunday
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Perceptual›Hearing | Verbal›Insulting
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Appearance›Similarity | Memory›Uncertain
Aesthetics: Narrative›Perspective
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Movement›Walking
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Community collective | Religion›Apotheosis | War›Civil War
Relationships: Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Mental›Discovery
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Unspecified sickness | Slavery›Metaphorical
Themes and Motifs: Time›Running out | Values›Determination
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation | Narrative›Temporal discontinuity
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth
Cultural Issues: Identity, Personal
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Similarity | Character›Inherited traits | Meaning›Paternity
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Friendship›College companions / classmates
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Atmospheric›Claustrophobic
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Emotional›Hate
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood | Class›Respectability | Gender
Themes and Motifs: Death›In childbirth
Relationships: Familial
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Emotional›Repentance | Moral›Judgmental | Moral›Praying | Moral›Punishment
Cultural Issues: Religion›Challenge | Religion›Heresy | Religion›Piety | Religion›Sacrilege | Religion›Sin | Sexuality›Conception/Conceiving a child
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Attempt to find substitute | Character›Pride | Memory›Remembering | Philosophical›Redemption | Philosophical›Salvation
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son | Social›Neighbor
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Bodily›Pregnancy | Communication›Without words | Emotional›Cynicism | Violent›Whipping
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Aloneness | Absence/Loss›Substitute | Meaning›Limitations of words / language | Philosophical›Nihilism
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife | Familial›Mother-son
Aesthetics: Ambiguity›Unspecified shapes | Symbolism›Blood
Cultural Issues: Identity, Personal›Emptying oneself | Sexuality›Virginity
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss | Animals›Geese | Character›Duty | Death›Anticipation of death | Death›Liminal | Meaning›Limitations of words / language | Naming | Recurring Tropes›Revenge
Relationships: Familial›Motherhood | Familial›Parents-children
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Doctoring
Themes and Motifs: Community›Opinion | Memory›Remembering
Environment: Domestic Space›Backyard
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Clean | Health and Illness›Doctoring | Health and Illness›Injured | Ritual›Funeral
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Over time | Arrivals/Departures›Return | Community›Opinion | Death›Funeral | Values›Determination
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Movement›Carriage
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past vs present
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Communication›Telegraph
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Quest to recover | Death›Plane accident | Death›Response to | Texts›Newspapers
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Communication›Letter | Emotional›Indifference | Movement›Car
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Domestic›Housekeeping
Cultural Issues: History›Civil War | Slavery›Naming slaves
Environment: Time of Year›Hunting season
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Perceptual›Seeing | Physical›Pursuit
Relationships: Romantic›Unrequited
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Hunting metaphor / imagery
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Mental›Remembering
Cultural Issues: Race›Black family working for white
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Mental›Remembering | Movement›Crossing
Cultural Issues: Race›Black family working for white
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Lethe
Actions: Bodily›Breastfeeding | Bodily›Childbirth
Relationships: Interracial›Mammy-child
Environment: Domestic Space›House
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Bodily›Watching | Movement›Wagon | Verbal›Telling | Violent›Fighting | Violent›Hitting
Cultural Issues: Religion›Fanaticism
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife | Familial›Parents-children
Environment: Domestic Space›Deathbed | Domestic Space›House | Public›Church
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Bodily›Dying | Bodily›Pregnancy | Verbal›Command | Verbal›Cursing | Violent›Hitting | Violent›Threatening
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Abortion | Race›White supremacists | Religion›Fanaticism
Relationships: Familial›Parents-children
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Domestic Space›Hall | Domestic Space›House | Time of Day›Dawn
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Bodily›Pregnancy | Bodily›Sleeping | Bodily›Snoring | Mental›Thinking | Movement›Mule | Movement›Running
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Cabin
Environment: Domestic Space›Cabin
Environment: Domestic Space›Cabin
Environment: Domestic Space›Cabin
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Bodily›Crying | Bodily›Sleeping | Emotional›Terror | Mental›Thinking | Physical›Holding
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Invalid | War›Civil War consequences | War›Deprivation | War›Homefront
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Domestic›Child-rearing | Domestic›Housekeeping
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth
Themes and Motifs: Character›Inherited traits
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Emotional›Jealousy
Cultural Issues: Gender›Femininity
Relationships: Familial›Family as shackle
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth
Cultural Issues: Race›Genealogy | Race›Hierarchical | Race›Miscegenation | Race›Naming
Relationships: Familial›Interracial
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Environment: Atmospheric›Creepy | Atmospheric›Moonlit | Natural›Woods | Time of Day›Evening
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Bodily›Eating | Hunting›Possum | Perceptual›Looking | Verbal›Storytelling | Violent›Murder
Cultural Issues: Food›Cannibalism | Religion›Preacher / Minister | Slavery›Naming slaves | Slavery›Religion
Themes and Motifs: Body›Eyes | Death›Corpse | Memory›Remembering | Naming›Importance of naming | Naming›Renaming | Past›Family history | Past›Old days | Story-telling›Old days | Supernatural›Folklore | Supernatural›Superstitions
Relationships: Interracial›Master-slave