Distant Reader - author-charlesIKingOfEngland-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 273 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 1,474,311 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 5,400 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:

shall, may, will, parliament, king, text, majesty, us, god, great, time, subjects, england, men, good, yet, many, now, houses, without, church, made, peace, power, one, much, people, first, kingdom, majesties, make, english, religion, persons, answer, might, two, lord, give, tcp, early, house, must, commons, well, act, concerning, never, either, government

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are Basiliká the works of King Charles the martyr : with a collection of declarations, treaties, and other papers concerning the differences betwixt His said Majesty and his two houses of Parliament : with the history of his life : as also of his tryal and martyrdome., A large declaration concerning the late tumults in Scotland, from their first originalls together with a particular deduction of the seditious practices of the prime leaders of the Covenanters: collected out of their owne foule acts and writings: by which it doth plainly appeare, that religion was onely pretended by those leaders, but nothing lesse intended by them. By the King., and Effata regalia. Aphorismes [brace] divine, moral, politick. Scattered in the books, speeches, letters, &c. of Charles the First, King of Great Brittain, &c. / Now faithfully collected and published by Richard Watson, fellow of Gonvile and Caius Colledge in Cambridge..

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

early english, english books, books online, two houses, textual changes, great britain, page images, good subjects, text creation, creation partnership, early works, mona logarbo, without asking, tiff page, financial support, markup reviewed, work described, commercial purposes, batch review, providing financial, image set, xml conversion, encoded edition, online text, institutions providing, text transcribed, proquest page, asking permission, encoded text, bit group, iv tiff, pfs batch, images scanned, tcp assigned, creative commons, civil war, annotation includes, metadata enrichments, earlyprint project, stationer meant, changes aim, digital transcription, fully proofread, english short, collaborative curation, professional end, linguistically annotated, includes standard, many walks, proofread approx

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are By the King. A proclamation against the disorderly transporting His Maiesties subiects to the plantations within the parts of America Articles agreed upon by the arch-bishops and bishops of both provinces, and the whole clergie in the convocation holden at London, in the yeer 1562. For the avoiding of diversities of opinions, and for the stablishing of consent touching true religion. Re-printed by his Majesties commandment: with his royall declaration prefixed thereunto., and A view of the nevv directorie and a vindication of the ancient liturgie of the Church of England in answer to the reasons pretended in the ordinance and preface, for the abolishing the one, and establishing the other..

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, king, parliament, majesty, majestie, majesties, houses, england, maiesties, kingdome, church, oxford, london, city, religion, god, earle, court, county, lord, early, prince, people, lawes, kingdom, government, tei, sir, persons, lords, house, army, york, tobacco, scotland, law, justice, ireland, declaration, counties, conscience, christian, yorke, world, wee, text, subjects, state, reason, petition

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 shall, and His Majesties declaration for the relief of the poor miners within the county of Derby 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, time, subjects, men, people, power, part, persons, day, way, others, king, hath, peace, man, reason, books, p., religion, thing, end, things, answer, place, nothing, self, images, person, order, kings, xml, page, lordships, words, times, life, work, image, works, hands, cause, places, name, changes, none, arms, satisfaction, manner, message, consent

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, was, are, were, had, been, being, said, do, made, make, did, give, concerning, according, given, take, having, taken, know, sent, done, see, desire, think, put, encoded, am, say, has, thought, set, come, let, read, found, bee, received, brought, receive, hath, desired, aim, used, making, resolved, pretended, hope

Proper Nouns

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

parliament, majesty, king, god, england, church, kingdom, houses, majesties, lord, tcp, commons, charles, house, peace, lords, 〉, sir, law, ◊, 〈, london, kingdome, court, hath, army, english, act, religion, assembly, oxford, government, ireland, i, wales, commissioners, majestie, text, scotland, justice, john, bishops, war, wee, sovereign, authority, laws, great, declaration, power

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?"

his, their, our, it, they, i, them, we, he, my, your, you, him, us, me, themselves, himself, thy, her, its, theirs, mine, thee, she, ours, ''em, yours, one, whereof, em, ''s, vp, severall, testimonie, ian, ●, ye, ourselves, je, hers, hee, 〈, †, ȝit, whosoever, vvith, vnto, trye, thier, se

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?"

such, other, many, great, same, good, own, more, first, early, true, much, present, last, english, necessary, former, whole, particular, least, most, full, free, fit, textual, due, new, better, best, several, late, high, greatest, available, little, happy, common, publick, pleased, greater, humble, second, contrary, gracious, just, ready, private, further, like, willing

not, so, then, now, most, more, as, never, well, only, therefore, very, yet, much, also, up, ever, there, first, even, onely, here, thereof, out, in, rather, online, just, fully, far, too, likewise, away, thus, whatsoever, still, together, therein, otherwise, again, indeed, before, early, no, long, further, especially, already, down, above

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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