Actions: Physical Building
Parent Term
Sibling Terms
- Ambush
- Apprehending
- Bathing
- Being pursued
- Breaking
- 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
- Holding
- Inaction / Not doing something
- Intrusion
- Jumping
- Kicking
- Kissing
- Lifting
- Loading
- Locking a door
- Lying down
- 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
- Stomping
- 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
Relationships: Hierarchical›Leader
Aesthetics: Narrative›Reported narration
Relationships: Hierarchical›Leader
Aesthetics: Narrative›Reported narration
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife | Social›Adversarial
Aesthetics: Narrative›Reported narration
Environment: Natural›Creek bottom | Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Emotional›Detachment | Physical›Building
Relationships: Familial›Father-son in law
Cultural Issues: Land-Use›Aboriginal
Themes and Motifs: Death›Indian burial practices
Environment: Place›Plantation
Cultural Issues: Land-Use›Cotton farming | Slavery›Labor
Themes and Motifs: Inheritance›Property | Objects›European in U.S. | Past›Yoknapatawpha founders
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Old Frenchman's arrival
Environment: Atmospheric›Heat | Time of Day›Dinner
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Interaction, Social›Marriage | Movement›Walking | Physical›Building
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mules | Arrivals/Departures›Departure
Environment: Domestic Space›House | Place›Plantation
Actions: Hunting›Slave hunting | Interaction, Social›Concealment | Moral›Deception | Movement›Riding | Physical›Building
Cultural Issues: Class›Dehumanization | Class›Respectability | History›Dispossessing Indians | Land-Use›Ownership | Race›Black stereotype | Race›Native American | Slavery›Labor
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Chaos/Order›Creating order | Community›Stranger | Exile›Driven away | Naming›Place name | Objects›Pistol | Past›Personal past | Past›Unknown/concealed past | Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility
Relationships: Interracial›Master-slave | Marital›Social respectability | Social›Isolation
Environment: Domestic Space›Empty room | Domestic Space›Garden | Domestic Space›Home | Domestic Space›House | Domestic Space›Plantation house | Natural›Swamp | Place›Plantation
Actions: Agricultural›Planting | Agricultural›Plowing | Bodily›Drinking | Bodily›Sitting | Domestic›Camping | Economic›Borrowing | Economic›Lending Money | Hunting›Deer hunting | Mental›Calculation | Mental›Speculation | Physical›Building | Physical›Clearing land | Physical›Wrestling | Play›Card playing | Play›Gambling
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Cotton | Alcohol›Whiskey | Class›Respectability | Economy›Dowry | Gender›All-male space | Gender›Marriage | Gender›Women | Slavery›Ownership | Slavery›Violence | Violence›Interracial
Themes and Motifs: Community›Opinion | Home›Improvements | Past›Unknown/concealed past | Recurring Tropes›Secret | Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility | Time›Duration of time | Time›Frozen / Static | Values›Decorum
Relationships: Friendship›Adult friends | Hierarchical›Master-slave | Intergenerational›Hunting party
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Metaphor | Narrative›Foreshadowing | Narrative›Withholding
Environment: Public›Church | Public›Town Square | Time of Day›Sunday morning
Actions: Economic›Buying | Emotional›Amazement | Emotional›Fear | Emotional›Surprise | Interaction, Social›Church | Mental›Believing | Mental›Knowing | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Watching | Physical›Building | Play›Gambling | Verbal›Rumor
Cultural Issues: Class›Ambition | Class›Respectability | Clothes›Formal | Economy›Dowry | Gender›Marriage | Gender›Women | Group Mentality›Community collective | Religion›Methodism | Religion›Sabbath | Slavery›Buying slaves | Slavery›Commodity
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Control | Character›Ruthless | Community›Knowledge | Community›Opinion | Meaning›Mystery | Money›Dowry | Past›Unknown/concealed past | Recurring Tropes›Secret | Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility | Time›Duration of time | Time›Frozen / Static | Values›Decorum | Values›Honor | Values›Justice | Values›Virtue
Relationships: Institutional›Church-Town | Marital›Arrangements | Romantic›Courtship
Environment: Atmospheric›Stillness | Auditory›Silence | Domestic Space›Garden | Natural›Dirt / Earth | Place›Plantation
Actions: Mental›Envisioning | Mental›Imagining | Mental›Visualize | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Looking | Perceptual›Seeing | Perceptual›Watching | Physical›Building | Physical›Clearing land | Physical›Dragging | Verbal›Storytelling
Cultural Issues: History›Plantation culture | Progress›Clearing the land | Progress›Frontier to civilization | Slavery›Imported | Slavery›Labor | Violence
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Creating order | Chaos/Order›Creation | Chaos/Order›Order | Naming›Place name | Objects›Cards | Objects›Table | Past›As explanatory | Past›Past in present | Recurring Tropes›Design
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Genesis | Allusion, Biblical›God / Jehovah | Allusion, Biblical›Old Testament | Description›Landscape | Figures of Speech›Metaphor | Figures of Speech›Personification | Figures of Speech›Simile | Language›Abundance or flow of words | Language›Grandiloquence | Style›Long sentence | Style›Neologism | Style›Numerous adjectives | Symbolism›Hamsa | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Familial›Mother-son | Social›Adversarial
Actions: Communication›Writing | Domestic›Housekeeping | Physical›Building | Play›Poker
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Themes and Motifs: Home›Improvements
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-servant | Marital›Arrangements
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness | Land-Use›Ownership
Themes and Motifs: Money›Inheritance
Cultural Issues: Land-Use›Aboriginal
Themes and Motifs: Death›Indian burial practices
Cultural Issues: History›Arrival of whites in Mississippi
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Cultural Issues: Class›Aristocratic posing
Themes and Motifs: Home›Improvements
Environment: Time of Year›New Year
Cultural Issues: History›Reconstruction | Progress›Building structure
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Capitalization
Actions: Economic›Partnership | Physical›Building
Cultural Issues: History›Carpetbaggers | History›Reconstruction | Progress›Building structure | Progress›Trains
Relationships: Economical›Partnership
Actions: Bodily›Sweating | Interaction, Social›Making progress | Physical›Building | Verbal›Cursing
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Dress | Clothes›Pants | Clothes›Silk | Progress›Building structure | Slavery›Labor
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dash
Environment: Time of Day›Dawn
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Community collective | Progress›Building structure
Themes and Motifs: Naming›Place name
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dash
Actions: Interaction, Social›Civic discussion | Perceptual›Listening | Physical›Building | Work›Architect | Work›Teaching
Cultural Issues: Progress›Building structure
Environment: Time of Year›Winter
Cultural Issues: Progress›Building structure
Cultural Issues: Progress›Frontier to civilization
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Creating order
Aesthetics: Symbolism›Created by characters
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Cultural Issues: Class›White trash | Prejudice›Racism | Progress›Frontier to civilization | Slavery›Labor
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave | Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Cultural Issues: Progress›Building structure
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departing Yoknapatawpha
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Paris | Narrative›Parentheses
Environment: Public›Courthouse
Cultural Issues: Progress›Building structure
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Cultural Issues: Government›State capital | Progress›Building structure
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Creating order
Environment: Domestic Space›Yard
Actions: Agricultural›Hog farming | Emotional›Hysteria | Emotional›Rage | Physical›Building | Verbal›Taunt | Verbal›Threat
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Regulations
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Hog | Psychological›Obsession
Cultural Issues: History›Founding fathers | Progress›Building structure
Themes and Motifs: Naming›Place name | Past›Yoknapatawpha founders
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›First settlers arrive
Environment: Natural›Creek bottom | Time of Day›Afternoon
Relationships: Familial›Extended family
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Re-arrangements during War
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Memphis, Tennessee
Environment: Natural›Creek bottom
Cultural Issues: War›Reconstruction | War›Union Army
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Emancipation | War›Civil War consequences | War›Destruction | War›Reconstruction
Cultural Issues: Gender›Masculine woman | Progress›Trains
Relationships: Economical›Partnership | Friendship›Adult friends
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Carolina | Allusion, Geographical›Georgia
Environment: Atmospheric›Heat | Time of Day›Dinner
Cultural Issues: War›Union Army
Relationships: Familial›Father-son