Distant Reader - author-hardyNathaniel-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 29 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 782,494 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 26,982 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 93. 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:

god, us, non, may, roman, christ, will, one, shall, man, yet, st, love, saith, men, life, must, good, therefore, though, let, word, indeed, much, gods, sin, world, well, things, many, words, lord, father, now, first, death, truth, know, church, text, true, bee, onely, say, time, like, light, every, apostle, doth

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are The first general epistle of St. John the Apostle, unfolded & applied. The second part, in thirty and seven lectures on the second chapter, from the third to the last verse. Delivered in St. Dionys. Back-Church, by Nath: Hardy minister of the gospel, and preacher to that parish., The first general epistle of St. John the Apostle, unfolded and applied the first part in two and twenty lectures on the first chapter, and two verses of the second : delivered in St. Dyonis. Back-Church, An. Dom. 1654 / by Nath. Hardy ..., and Thankfulness in grain: or a good life the best return. Delivered in another sermon on the same occasion in St. Dionis, Back-Church, Aug. 14. 1653. By Nath. Hardy, Master of Arts, and preacher to that parish..

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

roman non, let us, little children, st paul, every one, eternal life, must needs, sermon preached, young men, take notice, early english, english books, taken away, oh let, every man, holy ghost, blessed saviour, books online, one hand, st john, saith st, wicked men, jesus christ, whole world, god will, gods word, shall finde, paul saith, may well, gods will, first epistle, set forth, page images, two things, one word, many times, good man, may bee, wicked one, shall find, make use, iesus christ, right hand, st austin, wee may, one thing, shall bee, among us, good men, one another

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are Thankfulness in grain: or a good life the best return. Delivered in another sermon on the same occasion in St. Dionis, Back-Church, Aug. 14. 1653. By Nath. Hardy, Master of Arts, and preacher to that parish. A sermon, preached at St. Gregories church by St. Paul''s on Sunday the 13th. day of Iune, 1658. Intended for the funeral solemnization of Iohn Hewit, Dr. of divinity, and late minister there, and The first general epistle of St. John the Apostle, unfolded & applied. The second part, in thirty and seven lectures on the second chapter, from the third to the last verse. Delivered in St. Dionys. Back-Church, by Nath: Hardy minister of the gospel, and preacher to that parish..

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:

god, roman, lord, church, non, gods, christ, tcp, king, text, david, apostle, man, prophet, religion, psalmist, life, death, st., saint, psal, ministers, john, jerusalem, gospel, city, christian, angels, word, sun, son, scripture, saviour, saints, righteous, people, peace, paul, messiah, love, law, jews, holy, greek, ghost, fire, father, faith, epistle, cor

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 olive-branch presented to the native citizens of London in a sermon preached at S. Paul''s Church, May 27, being the day of their yearly feast / by Nath. Hardy ... 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?":

man, men, life, word, things, sin, world, words, love, death, truth, time, sins, light, reason, respect, way, others, end, peace, day, people, heart, hand, selves, part, one, grace, thing, faith, hath, eyes, self, mercy, text, wit, ▪, saith, glory, nothing, nature, body, place, children, name, darkness, sense, purpose, earth, lust

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, are, have, was, were, let, being, do, had, said, know, say, been, did, made, come, make, according, take, called, see, love, bee, give, concerning, set, having, taken, put, hath, go, am, look, saith, given, live, walk, read, done, doth, heard, keep, consider, blessed, find, think, used, use, appear

Proper Nouns

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

god, 〉, ◊, 〈, christ, st., lord, father, gods, thou, church, ●, hath, paul, st, yea, c., l., apostle, wee, david, loc, de, text, son, christians, heaven, john, christs, est, spirit, holy, gospel, christian, bee, s., prophet, king, saviour, aug., law, cor, hee, jesus, epistle, city, saint, mans, apostles, word

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, his, he, we, our, they, i, him, us, them, their, you, my, your, her, me, himself, thy, themselves, its, she, thee, ours, one, mine, theirs, yours, ye, whereof, non, severall, whosoever, thou, interr''d, ourselves, itself, hers, ●, yee, y, wr, ut, trahit, se, s, quae, o, mself, iis, ii

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?"

non, -, roman, other, good, many, true, own, such, great, first, same, much, more, saith, wicked, little, last, old, former, divine, double, full, righteous, particular, whole, holy, new, pleased, better, best, present, young, right, least, second, ready, wise, greater, eternal, perfect, most, latter, strong, high, excellent, very, observable, several, few

not, so, then, therefore, indeed, more, here, only, yet, now, well, as, up, onely, thus, very, much, most, out, away, forth, no, never, far, still, rather, too, down, even, especially, ever, together, in, again, finally, that, truly, is, namely, surely, first, once, just, sometimes, justly, long, often, all, hence, off

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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