Distant Reader - author-maryIiQueenOfEngland-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 67 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 93,485 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 1,395 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 78. 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:

tcp, text, eebo, english, tei, king, william, texts, early, england, shall, mary, books, characters, encoded, queen, majesties, oxford, xml, partnership, encoding, online, phase, image, day, proclamation, will, given, works, first, work, transcribed, images, keying, creation, proquest, page, elements, data, project, available, based, edition, markup, within, wales, therefore, general, persons, london

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are By the King and Queen, a proclamation whereas we have received information that Edmond Ludlow, commonly called Colonel Ludlow, who stands attainted of high treason ..., By the King and Queen, a proclamation. Marie R. The King and Queens Most Excellent Majesties taking into their princely consideration, that the holding the next Assizes for the several counties of this kingdom at the days and times first intended, might greatly obstruct the good endeavours ... for the common defence of the kingdom at this time of invasion by the French ..., and By the King and Queen, a proclamation requiring all seamen and mariners to render themselves to Their Majesties service.

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

english books, early english, books online, creation partnership, text creation, page images, represented either, characters represented, tcp schema, image sets, thomas newcomb, charles bill, mona logarbo, excellent majesties, great britain, privy council, tcp texts, title published, tcp phase, tcp tei, converting tcp, external keying, qa standards, user contributors, first edition, now take, structural encoding, will remain, asking permission, original source, images scanned, text transcribed, meet qa, two phases, syntactic tagging, commercial purposes, characters will, text strings, editorial teams, institutions providing, iv tiff, texts based, tei oxford, facilitate morpho, large quantities, financial support, tcp aimed, online text, encoded edition, make clear

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are By the King and Queen, a proclamation. Marie R. The King and Queens Most Excellent Majesties taking into their princely consideration, that the holding the next Assizes for the several counties of this kingdom at the days and times first intended, might greatly obstruct the good endeavours ... for the common defence of the kingdom at this time of invasion by the French ... The declaration of William and Mary, King and Queen of England, France and Ireland, to all their loving subjects in the kingdom of Ireland., and By the King and Queen, a proclamation for prohibiting the importation, or retailing of any commodities of the growth or manufacture of France.

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, majesties, mary, king, persons, ships, william, tei, seamen, queen, england, day, city, act, wardens, right, rents, parliament, officers, james, ireland, french, earl, county, corn

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 Their Majesties declaration for encouragement of officers, seamen, and mariners employed in the present service 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, texts, characters, xml, image, books, works, work, images, project, page, keying, encoding, elements, edition, data, eebo, day, time, title, purposes, users, sets, selection, schema, markup, instances, guidelines, editions, proclamation, majesties, subjects, reason, author, support, re, quantities, history, permission, number, terms, proofread, print, copy, copies, companies, web, variety, user, transcriptions

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, was, is, have, were, encoded, been, are, do, said, given, based, -, published, represented, marked, created, create, corrected, according, made, take, make, sent, intended, meet, use, printed, remaining, remain, performed, known, issued, did, carried, transcribed, divided, distributed, returned, produce, using, understanding, transformed, simplify, scanned, reviewed, request, released, reflect, range

Proper Nouns

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

tcp, king, william, england, queen, mary, eebo, text, tei, english, oxford, proquest, phase, partnership, creation, majesties, wales, london, thomas, charles, michigan, utf-8, unicode, sovereign, persons, p5, online, ncbel, transcribed, proclamation, newcomb, bill, god, university, parliament, day, mona, logarbo, whitehall, r., great, court, royal, seamen, britain, service, january, council, lincoln, commons

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?"

their, our, we, them, they, themselves, i, his, it, us, him, he, you, your, my, himself, me, its, her, cha

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

therefore, then, so, not, online, hereby, now, in, out, over, above, very, usually, never, even, variously, sometimes, respectfully, notably, mainly, accurately, next, also, whatsoever, further, most, thereof, strictly, only, lately, together, early, accordingly, otherwise, as, up, hereafter, well, thereby, there, respectively, duly, by, particularly, more, graciously, straitly, justly, therein, immediately

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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