Distant Reader - author-ussherJames-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 31 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 2,169,688 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 69,989 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 90. 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, lib, christ, one, also, man, us, will, cap, first, made, may, yet, king, year, men, time, shall, things, now, great, church, world, saith, therefore, came, good, come, many, day, might, non, faith, pag, sent, doe, death, doth, must, son, much, lord, life, gods, called, make, place, two, onely, thing

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are The annals of the world deduced from the origin of time, and continued to the beginning of the Emperour Vespasians reign, and the totall destruction and abolition of the temple and common-wealth of the Jews : containing the historie of the Old and New Testament, with that of the Macchabees, also the most memorable affairs of Asia and Egypt, and the rise of the empire of the Roman Caesars under C. Julius, and Octavianus : collected from all history, as well sacred, as prophane, and methodically digested / by ... James Ussher ..., A body of divinitie, or, The summe and substance of Christian religion catechistically propounded, and explained, by way of question and answer : methodically and familiarly handled / composed long since by James Vsher B. of Armagh, and at the earnest desires of divers godly Christians now printed and published ; whereunto is adjoyned a tract, intituled Immanvel, or, The mystery of the incarnation of the Son of God heretofore writen [sic] and published by the same authour., and A friendly advertisement to the pretended Catholickes of Ireland declaring, for their satisfaction; that both the Kings supremacie, and the faith whereof his Majestie is the defender, are consonant to the doctrine delivered in the holy Scriptures, and writings of the ancient fathers. And consequently, that the lawes and statutes enacted in that behalfe, are dutifully to be observed by all his Majesties subjects within that kingdome. By Christopher Sibthorp, Knight, one of his Maiesties iustices of his court of chiefe place in Ireland. In the end whereof, is added an epistle written to the author, by the Reverend Father in God, Iames Vssher Bishop of Meath: wherein it is further manifested, that the religion anciently professed in Ireland is, for substance, the same with that, which at this day is by publick authoritie established therein..

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

roman non, julian period, holy ghost, every one, every man, jesus christ, let us, high priest, god will, iesus christ, israel reign, christ iesus, juda reign, early english, english books, taken away, set forth, god doth, tells us, thousand men, must needs, new testament, years old, next day, take away, holy scriptures, saviour christ, ut supra, books online, thousand foot, old testament, good things, right hand, lords supper, whole army, god himselfe, thousand horse, saith hee, ancient fathers, ad familiar, mean time, one another, many things, man may, shall come, two things, christ jesus, may see, every day, lord jesus

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are Prophecys concerning the return of popery into England, Scotland and Ireland by Arch-bishop Usher, Mr. Herbert, Dr. D. Pareus ... [et. al.] A briefe declaration of the universalitie of the Church of Christ, and the unitie of the Catholike faith professed therein delivered in a sermon before His Maiestie the 20th. of Iune 1624. at Wansted. By Iames Ussher, Bishop of Meath., and Directions propovnded and hvmbly presented to the high court of Parliament concerning the Booke of common prayer and episcopall government / written by a reverend and learned divine now resident in this city..

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, church, lord, tcp, christ, king, apostle, roman, law, bishop, spirit, saviour, ghost, psal, pope, ireland, holy, gods, father, faith, england, christian, son, rome, priest, non, matth, churches, word, text, testament, temple, sonne, scriptures, scripture, sacrament, rom, religion, joh, jesus, iohn, iesus, idaho, ibid, government, gospel, dei, cor, bishops, angels

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 A friendly advertisement to the pretended Catholickes of Ireland declaring, for their satisfaction; that both the Kings supremacie, and the faith whereof his Majestie is the defender, are consonant to the doctrine delivered in the holy Scriptures, and writings of the ancient fathers. And consequently, that the lawes and statutes enacted in that behalfe, are dutifully to be observed by all his Majesties subjects within that kingdome. By Christopher Sibthorp, Knight, one of his Maiesties iustices of his court of chiefe place in Ireland. In the end whereof, is added an epistle written to the author, by the Reverend Father in God, Iames Vssher Bishop of Meath: wherein it is further manifested, that the religion anciently professed in Ireland is, for substance, the same with that, which at this day is by publick authoritie established therein. 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, cap, men, time, things, day, death, year, faith, life, place, thing, people, son, army, years, body, part, others, way, name, world, war, power, sin, rest, end, word, ad, kings, words, nothing, doth, grace, reason, peace, hand, p., dayes, nature, manner, matter, hath, souldiers, king, hands, sinnes, ships, kingdom, one

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, was, had, were, are, have, being, made, did, came, come, having, sent, called, make, said, say, put, do, see, been, taken, set, done, went, take, brought, took, given, according, give, received, let, gave, know, concerning, found, hath, commanded, left, go, ''s, receive, doe, fell, seeing, bee, thought, lay

Proper Nouns

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

god, 〉, ◊, 〈, lib, christ, king, church, thou, pag, lord, c., rome, p., ●, j., s., hath, doe, gods, year, world, de, ibid, id., m., alexander, city, caesar, est, rom, a., l., asia, heaven, egypt, jews, romans, cor, law, julian, father, bishop, period, wee, holy, spirit, antonius, temple, hee

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, he, it, him, they, them, their, we, i, our, us, you, himself, her, my, themselves, me, thy, your, she, thee, its, theirs, one, ours, ib, mine, vvhat, ye, u, yours, s, yee, myself, whereof, f, thou, ourselves, non, ''s, ●, tollit, l, itself, yourselves, y, whosoever, vp, herself, hers

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, great, such, same, many, good, own, first, roman, non, more, whole, true, -, much, saith, second, last, dead, common, old, new, holy, little, able, former, third, free, very, certain, doth, ancient, full, greater, least, better, most, high, present, false, wicked, right, next, like, particular, private, long, outward, few, strong

not, so, then, also, now, therefore, up, there, as, more, thus, yet, onely, first, out, most, away, here, very, well, even, together, only, much, again, never, ever, in, down, thereof, off, before, rather, indeed, likewise, over, all, forth, far, that, long, is, secondly, further, presently, still, therein, thereby, otherwise, too

Next steps

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