Keywords
Term ID |
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Parent | Term | Description |
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1680 | Actions | Work | Building structure | |
1240 | Actions | Physical | Burial | |
2870 | Actions | Physical | Burning | |
1390 | Actions | Movement | Bus | |
5144 | Actions | Economic | Buying | |
1312 | Actions | Economic | Buying a house | |
2123 | Actions | Economic | Buying a shop or store | |
5233 | Actions | Economic | Buying on credit | |
4599 | Actions | Economic | Buying timber | |
2425 | Actions | Communication | By sound | |
4370 | Actions | Mental | Calculation | |
3126 | Actions | Verbal | Calling |
To cover when a character calls or summons someone else (cf. Dilsey calling Miss Quentin to supper). Could also perhaps be used for when someone uses a telephone to call someone else, though that might be conveyed by other keywords as well. -JBP |
5164 | Actions | Verbal | Calling by name | |
3600 | Actions | Legal | Calling police | |
2448 | Actions | Emotional | Callousness | |
2627 | Actions | Emotional | Calm | |
4260 | Actions | Interaction, Social | Camaraderie | |
1111 | Actions | Domestic | Camping | |
4661 | Actions | Physical | Camping | |
5658 | Actions | Movement | Canoe | |
3930 | Actions | Physical | Capture | |
4829 | Actions | Military | Capturing prisoners | |
499 | Actions | Movement | Car | |
3487 | Actions | Violent | Car accident | |
2942 | Actions | Communication | Car horn | |
2074 | Actions | Play | Card playing |
Added for moments when it is unclear if (a) the game is poker, or (b) if gambling is occurring. -JBP |
2501 | Actions | Domestic | Care | |
5577 | Actions | Bodily | Caressing | |
1448 | Actions | Emotional | Caring | |
888 | Actions | Work | Carpenter | |
1603 | Actions | Economic | Carpentry | |
1246 | Actions | Movement | Carriage | |
1952 | Actions | Physical | Carrying | |
4344 | Actions | Movement | Cart | |
3824 | Actions | Violent | Castration | |
2923 | Actions | Interaction, Social | Celebration | |
4213 | Actions | Communication | Censorship | |
3002 | Actions | Mental | Changing one's mind | |
1340 | Actions | Mental | Channeling |
An unFaulknerian term for what Zilphia does when, in Jefferson, she lives "vicariously and transcendentally" inside the lives of her former husband and his new wife in another state, or what Darl does so often in As I Lay Dying. SR |
3450 | Actions | Verbal | Chanting | |
2914 | Actions | Legal | Charge/accuse | |
1754 | Actions | Interaction, Social | Charity |
Here charity is understood as a communal act and is therefore a social interaction. JB |
3931 | Actions | Physical | Chase | |
1498 | Actions | Movement | Chasing | |
2436 | Actions | Verbal | Chatter | |
3757 | Actions | Moral | Cheating | |
2729 | Actions | Play | Checkers | |
2730 | Actions | Play | Chess | |
1851 | Actions | Bodily | Chewing | |
1209 | Actions | Domestic | Child care | |
5290 | Actions | Agricultural | Child labor | |
4472 | Actions | Economic | Child support | |
4336 | Actions | Domestic | Child-rearing | |
1237 | Actions | Bodily | Childbirth | |
2192 | Actions | Play | Children playing | |
1440 | Actions | Bodily | Choking | |
1212 | Actions | Agricultural | Chopping | |
902 | Actions | Work | Chopping wood | |
1059 | Actions | Physical | Chopping wood | |
2713 | Actions | Interaction, Social | Church | |
4314 | Actions | Work | Churning butter | |
1729 | Actions | Interaction, Social | Civic discussion | |
1704 | Actions | Interaction, Social | Civic dispute | |
1145 | Actions | Legal | Claim | |
1205 | Actions | Domestic | Cleaning | |
2755 | Actions | Physical | Clearing land | |
3970 | Actions | Physical | Climbing | |
3140 | Actions | Physical | Climbing stairs | |
1164 | Actions | Physical | Climbing tree | |
5168 | Actions | Physical | Climbing/descending rope | |
3706 | Actions | Verbal | Code-switching / Change in dialect | |
4321 | Actions | Interaction, Private | Coercion | |
2867 | Actions | Emotional | Coldness | |
2521 | Actions | Military | Combat | |
2763 | Actions | Emotional | Comforting | |
632 | Actions | Verbal | Command | |
1083 | Actions | (First level term) | Communication | |
3933 | Actions | Economic | Competition | |
4609 | Actions | Interaction, Social | Competition | |
1273 | Actions | Verbal | Complaining | |
1084 | Actions | (First level term) | Composing | |
5494 | Actions | Mental | Compulsion | |
5142 | Actions | Physical | Concealing | |
1984 | Actions | Interaction, Social | Concealment |
Any time a character hides something from his peer group or society at large. The particular instance here is John Powell concealing his pistol from the men in the livery stable. |
3620 | Actions | Moral | Condoning | |
4761 | Actions | Bodily | Confessing without words | |
649 | Actions | Moral | Confession | |
1143 | Actions | Verbal | Confession | |
1144 | Actions | Legal | Confession | |
4690 | Actions | Emotional | Confident | |
3154 | Actions | Physical | Confining | |
2078 | Actions | Interaction, Social | Confrontation | |
5127 | Actions | Mental | Confusion | |
5197 | Actions | Verbal | Congratulating | |
3415 | Actions | Verbal | Consoling | |
4940 | Actions | Interaction, Social | Conspiracy | |
1707 | Actions | Movement | Constant | |
1529 | Actions | Work | Construction | |
1173 | Actions | Mental | Contemplation | |
2606 | Actions | Emotional | Contempt |