Distant Reader - author-albemarleGeorgeMonckDukeOf-freebo

Introduction

This is a Distant Reader "study carrel", a set of structured data intended to help the student, researcher, or scholar use & understand a corpus.

This study carrel was created on 2021-05-23 by Eric Morgan <emorgan@nd.edu>. The carrel was created using the Distant Reader zip2carrel process, and the input was a Zip file locally cached with the name input-file.zip. Documents in the Zip file have been saved in a cache, and each of them have been transformed & saved as a set of plain text files. All of the analysis -- "reading" -- has been done against these plain text files. For example, a short narrative report has been created. This Web page is a more verbose version of that report.

All study carrels are self-contained -- no Internet connection is necessary to use them. Download this carrel for offline reading. The carrel is made up of many subdirectories and data files. The manifest describes each one in greater detail.

Size

There are 36 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 112,349 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 3,120 words long. If you dig deeper, then you might want to save yourself some time by reading a shorter item. On the other hand, if your desire is for more detail, then you might consider reading a longer item. The following charts illustrate the overall size of the carrel.

Readability

On a scale from 0 to 100, where 0 is very difficult and 100 is very easy, the documents have an average readability score of 85. Consequently, if you want to read something more simplistic, then consider a document with a higher score. If you want something more specialized, then consider something with a lower score. The following charts illustrate the overall readability of the carrel.

Word Frequencies

By merely counting & tabulating the frequency of individual words or phrases, you can begin to get an understanding of the carrel's "aboutness". Excluding "stop words", some of the more frequent words include:

text, will, may, army, horse, parliament, shall, general, lord, god, monck, foot, must, great, good, letter, english, one, command, officers, men, enemy, two, us, musqueteers, people, early, many, make, division, much, order, three, england, time, divisions, way, marked, right, nations, george, now, books, without, london, give, tcp, enemies, souldiers, king

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are Observations upon military & political affairs written by the Most Honourable George, Duke of Albemarle, &c. ..., A collection of several letters and declarations, sent by General Monck unto the Lord Lambert, the Lord Fleetwood, and the rest of the General Council of Officers in the army ..., and The voice of the people for a king shewing the only way for the future settlement and peace of England, humbly presented to His Excellency the Lord General Monck / by Arise Evans..

The most frequent two-word phrases (bigrams) include:

english books, early english, george monck, general monck, books online, lord general, textual changes, page images, early works, text creation, creation partnership, commercial purposes, text transcribed, encoded edition, financial support, iv tiff, bit group, xml conversion, encoded text, institutions providing, without asking, tcp assigned, pfs batch, image set, images scanned, asking permission, proquest page, work described, tiff page, markup reviewed, batch review, providing financial, creative commons, online text, short title, earlyprint project, linguistically annotated, changes aim, end users, standard spellings, great britain, tcp digital, standardized format, metadata enrichments, professional end, preserves archaic, title catalog, collaborative curation, project evanston, notre dame

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are Observations upon military & political affairs written by the Most Honourable George, Duke of Albemarle, &c. ... King Charles II. his declaration to all his loving subjects of the kingdom of England. Dated from his Court at Breda in Holland, the 4/14 of April 1660. And read in Parliament, May, 1. 1660. Together with his Majesties letter of the same date, to his Excellence the Lord General Monck, to be communicated to the Lord President of the Council of State, and to the officers of the army under his command., and A declaration of the commander in chief of the forces in Scotland, and of the officers of the army under his command, in vindication of the liberties of the people, and the priviledges of Parliament..

While often deemed superficial or sophomoric, rudimentary frequencies and their associated "word clouds" can be quite insightful:

Keywords

Sets of keywords -- statistically significant words -- can be enumerated by comparing the relative frequency of words with the number of times the words appear in an entire corpus. Some of the most statistically significant keywords in the carrel include:

parliament, monck, lord, officers, nations, general, england, army, thomason, nation, king, excellency, county, city, university, town, text, souldiers, scotland, priests, penn, musqueteers, majesty, london, ireland, horse, god, generall, gen., foot, english, enemy, enemies, division, common, church, authority

And now word clouds really begin to shine:

Topic Modeling

Topic modeling is another popular approach to connoting the aboutness of a corpus. If the study carrel could be summed up in a single word, then that word might be text, and To his Excellency the Lord General Monck. The humble address of the Members of Parliament (in behalf of the people) interrupted and forceably secluded by Cromwell and his confederates, 1648. is most about that word.

If the study carrel could be summed up in three words ("topics") then those words and their significantly associated titles include:

If the study carrel could be summed up in five topics, and each topic were each denoted with three words, then those topics and their most significantly associated files would be:

Moreover, the totality of the study carrel's aboutness, can be visualized with the following pie chart:

Noun & Verbs

Through an analysis of your study carrel's parts-of-speech, you are able to answer question beyonds aboutness. For example, a list of the most frequent nouns helps you answer what questions; "What is discussed in this collection?":

text, letter, men, people, time, order, way, musqueteers, officers, books, ranks, images, hand, letters, hands, enemy, page, end, works, day, figure, xml, changes, work, strength, thing, self, enemies, things, nations, man, souldiers, horse, rest, place, hath, peace, image, transcription, occasion, persons, files, part, blood, nothing, annotation, observations, members, defects, care

An enumeration of the verbs helps you learn what actions take place in a text or what the things in the text do. Very frequently, the most common lemmatized verbs are "be", "have", and "do"; the more interesting verbs usually occur further down the list of frequencies:

be, is, have, are, do, was, been, make, were, being, marked, had, give, command, take, has, see, according, having, made, put, know, sent, let, fight, set, encoded, come, taken, aim, desire, done, read, did, said, making, hope, think, keep, am, stand, find, -, say, given, charge, turn, printed, declared, communicated

Proper Nouns

An extraction of proper nouns helps you determine the names of people and places in your study carrel.

army, parliament, horse, lord, god, general, monck, foot, england, division, london, tcp, george, divisions, enemy, english, officers, excellency, king, duke, thomason, albemarle, pikes, scotland, city, town, text, wing, nations, transcribed, musqueteers, battel, war, state, government, john, hath, authority, nation, march, command, souldiers, enemies, commander, chief, st., generall, council, church, brethren

An analysis of personal pronouns enables you to answer at least two questions: 1) "What, if any, is the overall gender of my study carrel?", and 2) "To what degree are the texts in my study carrel self-centered versus inclusive?"

you, your, their, it, his, we, i, they, them, our, he, us, him, my, me, themselves, himself, its, yours, thy, her, theirs, ours, she, mine, ian, one, thee, ourselves

Below are words cloud of your study carrel's proper & personal pronouns.

Adjectives & Verbs

Learning about a corpus's adjectives and adverbs helps you answer how questions: "How are things described and how are things done?" An analysis of adjectives and adverbs also points to a corpus's overall sentiment. "In general, is my study carrel positive or negative?"

great, good, such, many, other, early, own, english, same, late, more, able, right, present, much, textual, first, best, last, ready, common, whole, small, several, true, left, careful, humble, free, fit, better, pleased, full, easier, available, just, suitable, keyboarded, financial, dangerous, commercial, tractable, standardized, standard, seekest, professional, enriched, collaborative, little, digital

not, so, then, now, most, up, very, as, more, well, out, therefore, also, here, much, online, never, even, together, down, likewise, early, always, fully, again, yet, away, only, humbly, there, above, onely, too, ever, linguistically, computationally, in, far, first, before, thus, just, thereof, rather, long, soon, off, lately, all, better

Next steps

There is much more to a study carrel than the things outlined above. Use this page's menubar to navigate and explore in more detail. There you will find additional features & functions including: ngrams, parts-of-speech, grammars, named entities, topic modeling, a simple search interface, etc.

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