Distant Reader - author-ormondeJamesButlerDukeOf-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 39 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 94,122 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 2,413 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:

lord, text, tcp, shall, english, majesties, eebo, ireland, lieutenant, will, may, tei, books, early, ormonde, texts, council, earl, encoded, kingdom, majesty, sir, first, duke, dublin, online, characters, time, day, within, phase, xml, now, made, one, god, image, partnership, us, king, parliament, persons, title, oxford, encoding, images, peace, without, page, kingdome

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are Articles of peace made and concluded with the Irish rebels and papists by James Earle of Ormond ... also, a letter sent by Ormond to Col. Jones, Governour of Dublin, with his answer thereunto : and a representation of the Scotch Presbytery at Belfast in Ireland : upon all which are added observations., A true account of the whole proceedings betwixt His Grace James Duke of Ormond, and the Right Honor. Arthur, Earl of Anglesey, late Lord Privy-Seal, before the King and Council and the said Earls letter of the second of August to His Majesty on that occasion : with a letter of the now Lord Bishop of Winchester''s to the said Earl, of the means to keep out popery, and the only effectual expedient to hinder the growth thereof, and to secure both the Church of England, and the Presbiterian party., and A letter from His Grace James, Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in answer to the Right Honourable Arthur, Earl of Anglesey, Lord Privy-Seal, his observations and reflections upon the Earl of Castlehaven''s Memoires concerning the rebellion of Ireland : printed from the original, with an answer to it by the Right Honourable the Earl of Anglesey..

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

lord lieutenant, early english, english books, books online, text creation, creation partnership, lord viscount, page images, tcp schema, represented either, image sets, characters represented, mona logarbo, sir richard, nicholas plunket, james butler, graciously pleased, sir nicholas, lord baron, sir lucas, francis lord, spi global, providing financial, pfs batch, online text, batch review, without asking, lord president, lucas dillon, creative commons, asking permission, xml conversion, iv tiff, text transcribed, proquest page, image set, tcp assigned, work described, tiff page, encoded edition, images scanned, markup reviewed, financial support, encoded text, institutions providing, bit group, donnogh lord, commercial purposes, dillon knight, thomas lord

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are Whereas we are informed that the price of corn, and all sorts of grain, meale and malt, is grown excessive high in several parts of this kingdom, which both arise as is conceived from the great quantities of corn which have been of late carried out of this kingdom, into foreign parts ... by the Lord Lieutenant and Council, Ormonde. Whereas we are informed by the Earl of Ranelagh, and his partners, that several sheriffs and collectors within the respective counties of this kingdom, have received by vertue of His Majesties process, divers considerable summs of money due to His Majestie, and which do belong to the Earl of Ranelagh and partners undertaking, some of whom have accompted lately in the Exchequer, but not paid in the money due from them ... by the Lord Lieutenant and Council, Ormonde., and Whereas we are informed by John Stepney Esq., who is the only party to the Earl of Ranelagh ... by the Lord Lieutenant and Council, Ormonde..

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, lieutenant, majesties, lord, sir, ormonde, majesty, ireland, earl, viscount, seal, richard, religion, propositions, privy, people, peace, parliament, lucas, knight, kingdome, kingdom, houses, grace, god, gerrald, general, french, duke, donnogh, captain, assembly, army, act

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 lord, and We judging it requisite for the better government of His Majesties army, and the preservation of the peace of this kingdom, that all officers and souldiers under their command, should be, and continue in their respective garrisons ... by the Lord Lieutenant General and General Governour of Ireland, Ormonde. 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, books, characters, day, time, xml, image, images, persons, page, work, title, keying, eebo, edition, works, elements, project, encoding, data, purposes, users, markup, reason, instances, history, men, person, sets, selection, schema, part, guidelines, editions, power, subjects, peace, hath, changes, author, conversion, letter, articles, transcription, grace, support, parties, end, spi

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, said, have, was, are, were, been, encoded, do, had, made, given, being, make, based, take, according, published, -, represented, agreed, sent, did, create, concluded, marked, created, corrected, give, owned, accorded, sold, remain, intended, concerning, say, performed, providing, known, asking, use, scanned, reviewed, modified, know, issued, edited, distributed, described

Proper Nouns

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

lord, tcp, majesties, ireland, lieutenant, english, earl, council, text, duke, majesty, sir, ormonde, dublin, tei, eebo, kingdom, god, parliament, oxford, kingdome, king, proquest, phase, partnership, creation, dillon, england, ormond, viscount, donnogh, knight, o, transcribed, majestie, john, online, act, james, peace, utf-8, unicode, p5, ncbel, michigan, privy, wing, wee, thomas, mac

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, them, it, i, they, your, our, we, he, you, my, us, him, me, themselves, himself, thy, its, theirs, thee, her, yours, yourselves, ye, severall, ourselves, ours, decipher''d, 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?"

other, such, early, english, first, same, available, own, great, more, many, good, true, due, pleased, general, illegible, present, fit, textual, late, second, respective, several, possible, next, much, last, keyboarded, financial, commercial, most, greater, public, further, proofread, clear, original, large, wide, whole, usual, syntactic, subject, structural, readable, quality, overall, monographic, lossless

not, so, then, now, therefore, more, never, online, most, in, further, out, very, as, also, well, thereof, graciously, yet, even, therein, above, up, over, only, whatsoever, hereby, usually, ever, by, sometimes, next, variously, there, respectfully, notably, mainly, accurately, together, much, rather, onely, likewise, too, long, thus, lately, here, fully, first

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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