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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 321 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 512,675 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 1,597 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 80. 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, tcp, english, eebo, tei, early, king, england, texts, books, charles, encoded, will, shall, characters, majesty, online, xml, phase, image, ii, proclamation, partnership, oxford, encoding, day, may, works, images, within, work, page, markup, transcribed, given, great, edition, project, creation, available, proquest, based, keying, one, elements, majesties, london, time, data, first

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are By the King. A proclamation containing His Majesties gracious pardon and indemnity, By the King. A proclamation. Charles R. ... We having, with the advice and consent of Our Parliaments, past so many acts in favors of the Protestant religion, against field-conventicles ..., and Copies of two papers written by the late King Charles II together with a copy of a paper written by the late Duchess of York : to which is added an answer to the aforesaid papers all printed together..

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

english books, early english, books online, charles ii, creation partnership, text creation, page images, characters represented, tcp schema, represented either, image sets, mona logarbo, excellent majesty, john bill, great britain, christopher barker, without asking, providing financial, bit group, proquest page, markup reviewed, xml conversion, tiff page, online text, institutions providing, images scanned, commercial purposes, work described, encoded text, tcp assigned, encoded edition, pfs batch, text transcribed, creative commons, iv tiff, asking permission, image set, financial support, batch review, gap elements, page image, spi global, global keyed, will never, print record, diplomatic transcriptions, text strings, first edition, respectfully request, produce large

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are At the court at Whitehall the 25. of June, 1667. Present the Kings most Excellent Majesty, ... Whereas it is generally reported, that many seamen and soldiers who have served his Majesty at sea, are frequently constrained to give money, or lose some part of their wages to recover the rest: ... [To the kings most excellent majesty. The humble address of your most loyal ... subjects ... of] Hereford, and To the King''s most excellent Majesty. The humble address of the Society of the Middle-Temple..

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, majesty, england, king, tei, majesties, early, parliament, london, wines, scotland, lord, charles, act, thomason, john, church, ireland, highnesse, westminster, war, wales, subjects, sir, september, self, sea, provinces, people, nation, mr., kingdom, january, god, fair, english, earl, city, wyer, world, woolls, wine, william, wheels, wee, wednesday, verge, town, thomas, text

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 the King''s most excellent Majesty. The humble address of the Society of the Middle-Temple. 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:

1. text - A proclamation against the deceitful winding and folding of woolls
2. text - Master Peters messuage from Sir Thomas Fairfax, delivered in both houses of the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled: With the whole state of the west, and all the particulars about the disbanding of the princes and Sir Ralph Hoptons army. Together with His Majesties proclamation. Also the totall routing of Sir Jacob Ashley himselfe, and 1500 taken prisoners, their carriages and ammunition also taken by Colonell Morgan and Sir William Brereton. Commanded to be printed at the desire of divers members of Parliament, and published according to order.
3. church - Copies of two papers written by the late King Charles II together with a copy of a paper written by the late Duchess of York : to which is added an answer to the aforesaid papers all printed together.

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:

1. text, tcp, eebo - By the King, a proclamation for the apprehending certain offenders therein named and for the better security of His Majesty and his government from dangers arising from popish recusants
2. text, king, england - A message from the King of Scots, to his sister the Princess of Orange printed at The Hague : and a letter to the Lord General Cromwel, concerning the Earl of Cleveland, Col. Blague and divers other officers, the raising of a new army in Scotland, for their King, by the Marquess of Argyle : with a letter from the Earl of Newcastle, ordered to be burned : also, a true relation of the sad and wonderfull inundation of waters that befel the famous town of Bilbo in Spain, shewing the manner how it rained for 24 hours together, the water powring down the mountains with such a strong torrent, that it broke down the houses, drowned all their mules, sheep and cattel, fill''d their iron-mines, over-turn''d their mills, brake down the wharf and carryed all their ships into the sea, dismanted whole woods, leaving not a tree standing, beat down the fowl in the air, and destroyed many families : sent to Mr. Jacob a merchant, living in Fleet-street.
3. scotland, good, edinburgh - Master Peters messuage from Sir Thomas Fairfax, delivered in both houses of the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled: With the whole state of the west, and all the particulars about the disbanding of the princes and Sir Ralph Hoptons army. Together with His Majesties proclamation. Also the totall routing of Sir Jacob Ashley himselfe, and 1500 taken prisoners, their carriages and ammunition also taken by Colonell Morgan and Sir William Brereton. Commanded to be printed at the desire of divers members of Parliament, and published according to order.
4. church, religion, god - The case of free liberty of conscience in the exercise of faith and religion presented unto the King and both Houses of Parliament ... / by ... Edward Burroughs.
5. wines, retail, pence - A proclamation against exportation, and buying and selling of gold and silver at higher rates then in our mint as also against culling, washing, or otherwise diminishing our current moneys.

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, texts, characters, books, xml, image, day, works, images, page, work, edition, keying, eebo, elements, data, project, encoding, time, title, purposes, subjects, users, markup, year, instances, sets, selection, schema, guidelines, editions, proclamation, persons, kings, changes, transcription, terms, reason, support, end, author, permission, microfilm, review, reuse, phase, pfs, kb, institutions, group

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, was, have, were, are, been, encoded, said, do, given, based, made, published, -, according, make, take, represented, create, created, corrected, marked, being, did, printed, had, sent, use, performed, assigned, providing, distributed, owned, described, reviewed, copied, co, asking, scanned, modified, coded, edited, known, meet, carried, intended, remain, using, returned

Proper Nouns

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

tcp, england, charles, king, text, eebo, tei, english, majesty, ii, oxford, creation, proquest, phase, partnership, london, wales, majesties, god, john, transcribed, sovereign, proclamation, online, michigan, utf-8, unicode, p5, ncbel, parliament, church, royal, lord, bill, mona, logarbo, great, wing, commons, whitehall, excellent, court, britain, books, christopher, council, barker, kingdom, january, reign

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?"

our, his, their, we, they, it, them, i, your, you, he, us, him, themselves, my, her, me, himself, she, its, ours, theirs, thy, ye, whereof, yours, one, ●, vvith, thee, ou, mine, hers, diev·et·mon, ay

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?"

early, such, other, english, available, first, good, general, same, illegible, own, due, great, textual, true, many, commercial, keyboarded, financial, second, greater, possible, large, several, usual, proofread, clear, original, subject, public, light, wide, quality, external, syntactic, structural, readable, overall, monographic, lossless, later, eligible, editorial, displayable, diplomatic, critical, compelling, basic, aware, anonymous

not, so, then, therefore, most, online, now, very, even, in, never, out, above, over, as, thereof, also, sometimes, usually, variously, respectfully, notably, mainly, accurately, whatsoever, well, more, hereby, early, next, up, therein, there, further, only, onely, ever, together, fully, much, yet, here, strictly, otherwise, far, accordingly, likewise, hereafter, lately, linguistically

Next steps

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