Distant Reader - author-burnetGilbert-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 102 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 2,776,585 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 27,221 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 91. 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:

one, god, will, church, may, great, us, made, yet, king, much, many, must, men, things, religion, first, now, time, shall, man, might, well, good, therefore, make, thing, without, also, since, every, true, power, christ, see, authority, matter, words, set, law, given, people, bishop, though, another, two, either, whole, among, give

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are The history of the reformation of the Church of England. The first part of the progess made in it during the reign of K. Henry the VIII / by Gilbert Burnet., An exposition of the Thirty-nine articles of the Church of England written by Gilbert Bishop of Sarum., and A collection of papers relating to the present juncture of affairs in England.

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

early english, english books, every thing, every one, books online, christian religion, one another, new testament, holy ghost, let us, among us, text creation, creation partnership, page images, great many, protestant religion, must needs, every man, set forth, great deal, tells us, general council, represented either, image sets, tcp schema, characters represented, will never, many things, made use, king henry, old testament, whole matter, much less, roman church, one thing, lord bishop, will appear, jesus christ, make us, well known, french king, many ages, primitive church, many years, general councils, late king, give us, express words, thought fit, hundred years

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are The declaration of almighty God, in some few texts of scripture, recommended to the reverend conforming divines: / by G.B. B. of S----b---y ... being the publick fast appointed to implore God''s assistance for the reduction of Ireland, and the overthrow of the late King James, and his rebellious forces. A word to the wavering, or, An answer to the enquiry into the present state of affairs whether we owe allegiance to the King in these circumstances? &c. : with a postscript of subjection to the higher powers / by G.B., and Their highness the Prince & Princess of Orange''s opinion about a general liberty of conscience, &c. being a collection of four select papers..

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:

tcp, church, religion, god, king, world, lord, nation, council, authority, people, doctrine, prince, bishops, power, man, laws, law, government, court, pope, life, body, gospel, scripture, parliament, men, faith, clergy, bishop, father, england, christian, christ, saviour, duke, subjects, spirit, nature, majesty, churches, state, st., son, sacrament, queen, protestant, priests, order, holy

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 god, and The libertine overthrown, or, A mirror for atheists wherein they may clearly see their prodigious follies, vast extravagancies, notorious impieties and absurdities : containing a compendious account of the ... life and ... death of that the whole ... abstracted from the remarks of the Right Reverend D. Gilbert Burnet ... and the Reverend Mr. Parsons ... 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?":

things, time, thing, men, man, words, religion, people, others, nothing, matter, way, part, body, reason, self, power, day, one, years, p., order, mind, none, life, matters, person, kings, hands, place, death, author, tho, scripture, account, work, sense, king, end, nature, persons, blood, subjects, text, use, name, manner, books, ad, hand

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:

is, be, was, have, are, were, had, made, do, been, being, did, has, said, make, given, set, see, give, done, put, say, think, brought, having, thought, according, know, found, find, take, come, called, does, sent, let, believe, go, concerning, came, taken, received, seems, am, gave, used, says, went, appear, laid

Proper Nouns

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

god, church, king, christ, bishop, law, england, st., pope, rome, authority, lord, 〉, ◊, world, religion, prince, 〈, bishops, doctrine, council, ●, laws, tcp, parliament, c., de, men, power, mr., page, clergy, holy, government, court, faith, english, father, queen, princes, christian, book, divine, nature, man, france, sacrament, house, popes, gospel

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?"

it, he, his, they, their, them, i, we, him, our, us, you, her, my, your, himself, me, themselves, she, its, one, thy, theirs, thee, ours, ye, mine, yours, ian, herself, whereof, hers, s, ''em, non, itself, ●, myself, vvith, us''d, thou, l, hitherto, gods, ay, re, pe, ourselves, order''d, mself

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?"

other, great, such, many, own, same, good, true, first, much, more, whole, little, necessary, last, new, several, present, certain, particular, full, former, general, possible, common, ill, few, most, least, greater, clear, second, late, better, plain, greatest, best, high, next, long, due, sure, false, different, contrary, early, free, small, old, publick

not, so, only, then, more, now, very, as, much, therefore, well, also, up, most, out, yet, never, even, too, here, ever, far, still, thus, first, indeed, down, on, there, in, rather, all, over, together, long, often, again, once, no, off, perhaps, soon, certainly, likewise, away, always, easily, afterwards, just, otherwise

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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