Actions: Physical Holding
Parent Term
Sibling Terms
- Ambush
- Apprehending
- Bathing
- Being pursued
- Breaking
- Building
- Burial
- Burning
- Camping
- Capture
- Carrying
- Chase
- Chopping wood
- Clearing land
- Climbing
- Climbing stairs
- Climbing tree
- Climbing/descending rope
- Concealing
- Confining
- Cooking
- Crawling
- Crowding
- Cuddling
- Curtsy
- Cutting
- Dancing
- Delivering
- Digging
- Discovering
- Dragging
- Drawing
- Dreaming
- Dressing
- Driving
- Eating
- Embrace / hugging
- Emptying
- Escape from confinement
- Escaping
- Evasion
- Extinguishing fire
- Fasting
- Finding
- Freeing
- Gardening
- Getting water
- Hammering
- Hanging
- Hiding
- Hitting
- Inaction / Not doing something
- Intrusion
- Jumping
- Kicking
- Kissing
- Lifting
- Loading
- Locking a door
- Meddling
- Mimicking
- new item
- Nodding
- Nonverbal taunting or teasing
- Obeying / obedience
- Panting
- Pointing
- Praying
- Probing
- Protection
- Pursuit
- Pushing away
- Questing
- Race
- Reading
- Repair
- Rescuing
- Restraining
- Riding
- Rolling / wallowing
- Running
- Saluting
- Sawing
- Screaming
- Searching
- Showing
- Sitting
- Sleeping
- Squatting
- Stalking
- Starting fire
- Starting over
- Struggling
- Taking
- Throwing
- Touching
- Trampling
- Transporting
- Travel
- Trembling
- Tripping
- Turning away
- Undressing
- Wagon|Car maintenance
- Waiting
- Walking
- Washing clothes
- Watching
- Wave / waving
- Whistling
- Whittling
- Winking
- Wrestling
Tagged Events
Themes and Motifs: Meaning›Interpretation of symbol | Objects›Padlock
Environment: Auditory›Voices | Domestic Space›Parlor
Cultural Issues: War›Casualties of war | War›Homefront
Environment: Domestic Space›Parlor | Time of Year›July
Actions: Emotional›Anguish | Physical›Holding | Verbal›Consoling | Verbal›Dialogue | Verbal›Instructing | Verbal›Tirade
Themes and Motifs: Death›Response to | Objects›Handkerchief | Objects›Pistol | Objects›Satchel | Objects›Towel
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son
Environment: Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Christmas Eve
Actions: Bodily›Drooling | Moral›Entrapment / trapping | Physical›Ambush | Physical›Holding | Play›Fireworks | Verbal›Message | Verbal›Promising | Violent›Fighting | Violent›Hitting | Violent›Threatening
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-nephew | Sexual›Extramarital
Environment: Auditory›Engine | Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Bodily›Heart beating | Movement›Flight | Physical›Holding | Physical›Restraining | Physical›Running | Violent›Airplane crash
Cultural Issues: Race›Black body
Relationships: Friendship›Adult-child | Hierarchical›Master-servant
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Communication›Gossip | Emotional›Betrayal | Emotional›Comforting | Emotional›Crying | Emotional›Grief | Emotional›Guilt | Emotional›Mourning | Movement›Car | Physical›Holding
Cultural Issues: Age›Coming of age | Group Mentality›Community collective
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Friendship›Adult-child
Aesthetics: Narrative›Self-Reflective
Environment: Domestic Space›Hall | Place›Orphanage
Actions: Bodily›Nausea | Bodily›Recoiling | Economic›Bribing | Emotional›Outrage | Emotional›Shock | Emotional›Surprise | Mental›Thinking | Physical›Holding | Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Questioning | Verbal›Refusing | Verbal›Whispering
Themes and Motifs: Money›Silver dollar | Objects›Toothpaste
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Auditory›Birdsong | Time of Day›Daytime | Time of Day›Dusk | Time of Year›Saturday
Environment: Public›Road | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Crying | Perceptual›Listening | Physical›Hitting | Physical›Holding | Physical›Sitting | Verbal›Talking
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Prostitution
Environment: Place›Church | Time of Day›Evening
Environment: Domestic Space›House | Public›Street
Actions: Movement›Car | Physical›Carrying | Physical›Holding | Physical›Running | Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Questioning | Verbal›Shouting | Violent›Hitting
Cultural Issues: Prejudice›Racism | Race›Miscegenation
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
Environment: Domestic Space›Cabin
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Bodily›Crying | Bodily›Sleeping | Emotional›Terror | Mental›Thinking | Physical›Holding
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Public›Road | Time of Day›Daybreak | Time of Day›Night
Environment: Place›Drugstore / pharmacy
Actions: Bodily›Eating | Movement›Buggy | Perceptual›Seeing | Physical›Holding | Verbal›Questioning | Verbal›Silence
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Recurring Tropes›Little sister
Relationships: Friendship›Adult-child
Aesthetics: Description›Color white
Environment: Auditory›Rain on roof | Auditory›Rodent sounds | Domestic Space›Barn | Weather›Rain
Actions: Bodily›Sitting | Physical›Dancing | Physical›Embrace / hugging | Physical›Holding | Physical›Lifting | Physical›Touching | Verbal›Misspeaking
Cultural Issues: Age›Adolescence | Gender›Dirty girl | Sexuality›First sexual encounter or experience | Sexuality›Orgasm
Environment: Atmospheric›Wetness | Auditory›Running sound | Natural›Water moving / flowing
Actions: Bodily›Retching | Emotional›Crying | Emotional›Laughing | Legal›Arrest | Legal›Handcuffing | Legal›Obstructing justice / law enforcement officer | Physical›Holding | Physical›Restraining | Verbal›Stuttering / stammering | Verbal›Threat | Violent›Fighting | Violent›Kidnapping
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Dirty | Clothes›Pants | Clothes›Shirt | Clothes›Vest | Food›Bread | Health and Illness›Nausea | Law›Badge | Law›Constitutional right to remain silent | Law›Criminal assault | Law›Criminal assault and battery | Law›Custody | Nationality›Foreigners | Violence›Mistaken for sexual assault
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Insects butterflies | Appearance›Dirty | Body›Arm | Body›Eyes | Body›Face | Body›Shoulder | Body›Stomach/belly | Body›Throat | Psychological›Madness
Relationships: Civic | Familial›Brother-sister | Friendship›Adult-child | Social›Assailant-victim
Aesthetics: Description›Color yellow | Language›Foreign accent / dialect | Language›ah ah ah
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Domestic Space›Bedroom | Domestic Space›Empty room | Domestic Space›Sick room | Olfactory›Smelling trees | Time of Day›Twilight
Actions: Bodily›Hiding | Bodily›Squatting | Economic›Gifting | Emotional›Moaning | Movement›Hiding | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Seeing | Physical›Finding | Physical›Hiding | Physical›Holding | Verbal›Mumbling
Cultural Issues: Economy›Gift | Entertainment›Traveling show
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Of loved one | Memory›Remembering | Money›Gift of money | Objects›Slipper | Objects›Windows | Recurring Tropes›Smelled like trees | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Return to present time
Relationships: Hierarchical›Caretaker-mentally challenged person
Actions: Bodily›Crying | Emotional›Grief | Emotional›Hate | Emotional›Relief | Physical›Holding | Verbal›Lying | Verbal›Promising
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Pregnant out of wedlock
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Familial›Mother-daughter
Aesthetics: Narrative›First-person passim throughout section
Environment: Olfactory›Rain | Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Identity, Personal›Family role | Ritual›Cemetery decorations
Themes and Motifs: Death›Afterlife | Death›Corpse | Recurring Tropes›Reunion | Recurring Tropes›Revenge | Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Diction›Rural vernacular
Environment: Domestic Space›Cabin
Cultural Issues: Gender›Reproduction | Sexuality›Incest | War›Union Army