Distant Reader - author-jamesIKingOfEngland-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 46 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 305,673 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 6,645 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 84. 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, king, haue, will, may, one, text, great, kings, god, tcp, time, vpon, good, bee, first, pope, now, yet, made, doe, sir, lord, make, england, english, eebo, church, vnto, also, many, onely, take, hee, man, owne, without, men, power, two, within, therefore, cause, thereof, people, much, might, tei, well, himselfe

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are A remonstrance of the most gratious King Iames I. King of Great Britaine, France, and Ireland, defender of the faith, &c. For the right of kings, and the independance of their crownes. Against an oration of the most illustrious Card. of Perron, pronounced in the chamber of the third estate. Ian. 15. 1615. Translated out of his Maiesties French copie., An apologie for the oath of allegiance first set foorth without a name, and now acknowledged by the authour, the Right High and Mightie Prince, Iames, by the grace of God, King of Great Britaine, France and Ireland, defender of the faith, &c. ; together with a premonition of His Maiesties, to all most mightie monarches, kings, free princes and states of Christendome., and A true and historical relation of the poysoning of Sir Thomas Overbury with the severall arraignments and speeches of those that were executed thereupon : also, all the passages concerning the divorce between Robert, late Earle of Essex, and the Lady Frances Howard : with King James''s and other large speeches / collected out of the papers of Sir Francis Bacon ....

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

early english, english books, books online, sir tho, creation partnership, text creation, page images, great britain, represented either, tcp schema, image sets, characters represented, sir thomas, excellent maiestie, mona logarbo, haue beene, without asking, encoded text, asking permission, bit group, work described, batch review, institutions providing, pfs batch, text transcribed, financial support, encoded edition, tiff page, image set, online text, shall bee, markup reviewed, tcp assigned, iv tiff, creative commons, commercial purposes, xml conversion, providing financial, proquest page, images scanned, sir walter, wee doe, vpon paine, third estate, twentieth day, louing subiects, first edition, will never, gap elements, now take

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are By the King. A proclamation against pirats A true transcript and publication of His Maiesties letters pattent. For an office to be erected, and called the Publicke Register for generall Commerce Whereunto is annexed an ouerture and explanation of the nature and purport of the said office, for their better vnderstanding and direction that shall haue occasion to vse it, by Sir Arthur Gorges, Knight., and Orders, thought meete by his Maiestie, and his Priuie Counsell, to be executed throughout the counties of this realme, in such townes, villages, and other places, as are, or may be hereafter infected with the plague, for the stay of further increase of the same Also, an aduise set downe by the best learned in physicke within this realme, containing sundry good rules and easie medicines, without charge to the meaner sort of people, aswel for the preseruation of his good subiects from the plague before infection, as for the curing and ordering of them after they shalbe infected..

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, england, king, tobacco, god, church, sir, maiestie, lord, kingdome, iustices, subiects, realme, pope, parliament, man, majesty, law, emperour, early, christ, cardinall, weston, wee, walter, vse, vineger, vdall, turner, tunis, trade, townes, tower, threed, thomas, tho, thereof, tei, soueraigne, somerset, siluer, ship, seas, scripture, royall, religion, register, raleigh, queene, proclamation

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 A true transcript and publication of His Maiesties letters pattent. For an office to be erected, and called the Publicke Register for generall Commerce Whereunto is annexed an ouerture and explanation of the nature and purport of the said office, for their better vnderstanding and direction that shall haue occasion to vse it, by Sir Arthur Gorges, Knight. 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?":

time, kings, text, man, men, power, people, day, texts, things, place, persons, person, cause, reason, hath, characters, words, subiects, life, vpon, thing, part, books, others, images, xml, death, owne, matter, case, times, works, euery, hee, image, word, way, selfe, work, hand, themselues, ▪, world, page, name, purpose, edition, title, nothing

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, are, were, said, have, had, did, made, being, make, been, take, do, say, haue, bee, encoded, taken, let, according, am, set, put, sent, come, know, brought, neuer, found, called, vnto, see, done, doe, based, hath, give, thought, came, concerning, published, vpon, given, read, hold, heard, marked, -

Proper Nouns

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

king, god, tcp, pope, sir, lord, england, haue, hath, church, 〉, ◊, doe, 〈, popes, bee, kingdome, text, wee, tobacco, english, eebo, tei, christ, france, james, c., oxford, realme, mr., l., london, i, great, vda, oath, tho, owne, iohn, law, rome, prince, cardinall, ●, princes, court, hee, creation, proquest, phase

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, it, i, he, their, our, they, my, them, him, you, your, me, we, her, us, she, himself, themselves, thy, vp, thee, one, ours, mine, yours, whereof, theirs, elias, vnto, ay, its, ian, iu, hers, yee, ye, ws, vvhat, vntill, thou, there, m.dc.xxii, lye, jt, hee, gods

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, such, same, great, good, many, first, true, early, more, english, whole, own, second, much, last, available, due, little, third, haue, former, better, lawfull, contrary, common, greater, most, present, free, late, new, full, able, like, high, general, large, further, illegible, next, long, himselfe, guilty, particular, least, sufficient, very, original, false

not, so, then, now, also, onely, therefore, most, more, thereof, as, yet, very, well, out, there, first, never, thus, much, here, rather, in, only, away, likewise, further, together, otherwise, online, before, no, thereby, long, indeed, even, once, hereafter, still, over, forth, up, vpon, therein, especially, sometimes, already, vs, ever, all

Next steps

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