Keywords

Term ID Vocabularysort descending Parent Term Description
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

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