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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 129 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 752,432 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 5,832 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 95. 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:

will, one, good, text, man, doe, men, like, doth, haue, may, many, yet, great, tcp, hee, make, now, much, english, king, made, shall, god, time, well, two, first, taylor, day, let, come, though, eebo, know, early, must, iohn, head, take, true, world, house, books, old, london, without, whose, name, life

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are Divers crabtree lectures Expressing the severall languages that shrews read to their husbands, either at morning, noone, or night. With a pleasant relation of a shrewes Munday, and shrewes Tuesday, and why they were so called. Also a lecture betweene a pedler and his wife in the canting language. With a new tricke to tame a shrew., A iuniper lecture With the description of all sorts of women, good, and bad: from the modest to the maddest, from the most civil, to the scold rampant, their praise and dispraise compendiously related. Also the authors advice how to tame a shrew, or vexe her., and Taylors feast contayning twenty-seaven dishes of meate, without bread, drinke, meate, fruite, flesh, fish, sawce, sallats, or sweet-meats, only a good stomacke, &c. Being full of variety and witty mirth. By John Taylor..

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

english books, early english, books online, page images, creation partnership, text creation, iohn taylor, tcp schema, characters represented, represented either, image sets, images scanned, text transcribed, work described, xml conversion, institutions providing, proquest page, without asking, markup reviewed, encoded text, pfs batch, creative commons, iv tiff, online text, commercial purposes, image set, financial support, encoded edition, providing financial, batch review, bit group, tiff page, asking permission, tcp assigned, textual changes, john taylor, doe lodge, tcp staff, defects per, will never, early works, gap elements, therefore chose, now take, sets published, web site, tcp texts, remaining illegibles, make clear, usual project

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are A plea for prerogative, or, Give Cæsar his due being the wheele of fortune turn''d round, or, the world turned topsie-turvie : wherein is described the true subjects loyalty to maintain His Majesties prerogative and priviledges of Parliament / by Thorny Aylo, alias, John Taylor. Mr Thomas Coriat to his friends in England sendeth greeting from Agra the capitall city of the dominion of the great Mogoll in the Easterne India, the last of October, 1616. Thy trauels and thy glory to ennamell, with fame we mount thee on the lofty cammell; ... ., and The colde tearme, or, The frozen age, or, The metamorphosis of the Riuer of Thames.

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, man, king, haue, english, good, early, john, god, church, doth, thy, master, like, taylor, doe, thou, parliament, lord, iohn, hath, towne, tei, sea, london, text, england, thomas, thee, sir, oxford, hee, great, gentleman, wife, ship, shee, round, religion, prince, mercurius, majesty, law, land, iustice, henry, grace, devill, wine, tub

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 did, and Taylor''s motto Et habeo, et careo, et curo. 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. did - The nipping and snipping of abuses: or The woolgathering of vvitte With the Muses Taylor, brought from Parnassus by land, with a paire of oares wherein are aboue a hundred seuerall garments of diuers fashions, made by nature, without the helpe of art, and a proclamation from hell in the Deuils name, concerning the propogation, and excessiue vse of tobacco. By Iohn Taylor.
2. doe - Taylors feast contayning twenty-seaven dishes of meate, without bread, drinke, meate, fruite, flesh, fish, sawce, sallats, or sweet-meats, only a good stomacke, &c. Being full of variety and witty mirth. By John Taylor.
3. text - Misselanies, or, Fifty years gathering out of sundry authors in prose and verse being the studious readings, painful collections, and some of them are the composings of the writer and publisher heerof / John Taylor.

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. did, man, good - Divers crabtree lectures Expressing the severall languages that shrews read to their husbands, either at morning, noone, or night. With a pleasant relation of a shrewes Munday, and shrewes Tuesday, and why they were so called. Also a lecture betweene a pedler and his wife in the canting language. With a new tricke to tame a shrew.
2. did, thy, hath - A memorial of all the English monarchs being in number 151, from Brute to King Charles. In heroicall verse by Io. Taylor.
3. text, hath, god - Misselanies, or, Fifty years gathering out of sundry authors in prose and verse being the studious readings, painful collections, and some of them are the composings of the writer and publisher heerof / John Taylor.
4. haue, good, man - Taylors Vrania, or His heauenly muse With a briefe narration of the thirteene sieges, and sixe sackings of the famous cittie of Ierusalem. Their miseries of warre, plague, and famine, (during their last siege by Vespasian and his son Titus.) In heroicall verse compendiously described.
5. doe, carriers, come - A brief director for those that would send their letters to any parts of England, Scotlaud, or Ireland. Or A list of all the carriers, waggoners coaches, posts, ships, barks, hoys, and passage-boats, that come to London, from the most parts and places, by land & sea Alphabetically printed, so that none may pretend ignorance, who would gladly send, but know not where to carry their letters. With the dayes when they come, and when they return. And also to send letters to the most habitable parts of the world, and to have an answer.

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, text, time, doth, day, t, hee, head, life, world, name, texts, hath, way, images, books, selfe, house, xml, death, wife, place, page, things, times, characters, end, nothing, works, part, words, people, againe, reason, kings, work, image, thing, night, money, edition, poore, keying, eebo, water, art, shee, none, heart

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, was, be, are, were, did, have, had, make, being, made, ''s, let, said, come, know, been, do, take, haue, doe, see, say, came, encoded, am, hath, called, went, set, done, put, thinke, found, sent, brought, bee, makes, write, neuer, based, tell, give, read, left, vnto, pray, according, hold, get

Proper Nouns

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

〉, ◊, 〈, tcp, thou, doe, god, king, hath, taylor, english, london, iohn, text, hee, john, haue, england, lord, church, ●, t, oxford, master, sir, eebo, tei, henry, creation, proquest, phase, partnership, saint, sea, towne, michigan, downe, le, transcribed, prince, christ, wee, epigram, bee, mans, gods, online, bin, beene, kingdome

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?"

i, his, it, he, they, their, my, you, him, her, them, our, me, your, we, she, thy, us, thee, themselves, mine, one, vp, himself, its, theirs, ''s, yours, ''em, ours, vvith, us''d, vnto, yeere, ha, em, hers, dy''d, whereof, trye, myself, itself, hey, hee, heau''ns, gods, eb''d, á, z, yfaith

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?"

good, many, great, such, other, more, much, true, early, english, old, first, most, last, little, high, best, full, haue, doth, worthy, small, available, honest, new, better, bad, same, whole, long, second, rich, dead, worse, famous, sure, textual, strange, free, own, wise, noble, large, next, mad, common, few, mighty, sweet, strong

not, so, then, now, most, thus, there, more, as, well, out, yet, too, still, very, therefore, much, never, onely, up, first, here, away, neere, also, all, in, online, no, almost, long, else, once, sometimes, together, ever, even, often, off, before, forth, over, above, quite, better, indeed, home, presently, further, rather

Next steps

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