Distant Reader - author-williamIiiKingOfEngland-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 130 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 205,482 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 1,580 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, texts, early, king, william, england, books, encoded, characters, will, shall, oxford, partnership, phase, encoding, xml, online, image, works, majesties, given, work, day, images, creation, transcribed, page, elements, available, project, proquest, markup, edition, keying, based, data, first, may, mary, therefore, within, general, proclamation, queen, parliament, london

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are William the Third, by the grace of God, King of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, Defender of the faith, &c. To all and singular archbishops, bishops, archdeacons, deans, ... and to all other our officers, ministers and subjects whatsoever they be, as well within liberties as without, to whom these presents shall come, greeting Whereas it hath been humbly represented unto us by the petition of William Ebourne, John Ebourne, William Marshall, Thomas Huggins, and Marmaduke Roberts. and above one hundred others sufferers by fire, in the parish of Saint Mary Magdalen Bermondsey, in the county of Surry: ... That on the fourteenth day of June last, there happened near the river of Thames, in the said parish ... a most dreadful and sudden fire, which in the space of a few hours consumed and burnt down to the ground the dwelling-houses of the said poor petitioners, ... Know ye therefore, that of our royal favour ... do give and grant ... full power, license, and authority, to ask, gather, receive ... charitable benevolence ... We have caused these our letters to be made patents, and to continue for one whole year from Michaelmas next, and no longer., The declaration of His Highnes William Henry, by the grace of God Prince of Orange, &c. of the reasons inducing him, to appear in armes in the kingdome of England, for preserving of the Protestant religion, and for restoring the lawes and liberties of England, Scotland and Ireland Here unto are added the letters of the aforesaid his illustrious Highnesse to the sea and land forces of England, together with the prayer for the present expedition., and His Highness the Prince of Orange his speech to the Scots Lords and Gentlemen with their address, and His Highness his answer. With a true account of what past at their meeting in the Council-Chamber at Whitehall, Jan. 1688/9. His Highness the Prince of Orange having caused advertise such of the Scots Lords and Gentlemen, as were in town, met them in a room at St. James''s, upon Monday the seventh of January at three of the clock in the afternoon, and had this speech to them..

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

english books, early english, books online, text creation, creation partnership, page images, represented either, tcp schema, characters represented, image sets, william iii, thomas newcomb, charles bill, mona logarbo, online text, encoded text, encoding based, asking permission, later edition, using tcp, make clear, public domain, qa standards, meet qa, within braces, strings within, textual data, placeholder characters, user contributors, ascii text, tcp aimed, creative commons, title published, tcp files, respectfully request, tcp texts, create accurately, providing financial, sets published, text selection, texts created, therefore chose, characters will, converting tcp, bit group, encoded texts, markup guidelines, accurately transcribed, first edition, mainly structural

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 ... By the King, a proclamation. Whereas the Lords spiritual and temporal, and the knights, citizens, and burgesses in Parliament assembled, having taken into their serious consideration, the great mischiefs which this Our Kingdom lies under, by reason that the coin, which passes in payment, is generally clipped; ..., and His Majesties most gracious speech to both houses of Parliament. November 12th 1694..

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, early, majesty, king, persons, mary, tei, parliament, england, william, ships, day, act, seamen, scotland, religion, queen, prince, nation, city, wee, wardens, text, roderick, right, rents, protestant, officers, money, meeting, london, lieutenancy, laws, lawes, kingdom, john, january, james, highness, french, evill, english, earl, declaration, county, church, cardell, author

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, page, project, keying, encoding, elements, edition, data, eebo, title, time, purposes, instances, editions, users, sets, selection, schema, markup, guidelines, day, reason, majesties, proclamation, subjects, number, re, author, support, credit, nature, companies, mind, period, terms, quantities, proofread, print, permission, language, assurance, processes

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, have, was, were, are, been, encoded, do, said, given, based, published, -, represented, marked, created, create, corrected, made, take, according, make, sent, did, known, meet, use, issued, intended, chosen, being, remain, printed, remaining, performed, carried, returned, transcribed, reflect, owned, distributed, bear, assigned, appears, providing, looked, divided, scanned, produce

Proper Nouns

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

tcp, william, england, king, eebo, text, tei, english, oxford, proquest, phase, partnership, creation, mary, queen, london, parliament, michigan, utf-8, unicode, p5, online, ncbel, wales, transcribed, god, majesties, persons, iii, thomas, sovereign, university, charles, proclamation, majesty, january, great, prince, kingdom, law, commons, day, bill, newcomb, sampled, books, royal, new, court, lincoln

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, his, they, them, it, you, your, i, us, he, themselves, him, my, himself, me, thy, its, her, thee, ours, ye, one, myself, itself, 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, such, english, other, available, first, general, illegible, good, true, own, due, second, same, usual, possible, original, greater, great, subject, large, wide, eligible, clear, textual, syntactic, structural, readable, quality, public, overall, monographic, lossless, light, later, keyboarded, financial, external, editorial, displayable, diplomatic, critical, compelling, commercial, basic, aware, anonymous, most, respective, several

not, so, therefore, then, online, now, out, very, in, most, hereby, over, never, even, above, usually, sometimes, variously, respectfully, notably, mainly, accurately, also, as, well, only, whatsoever, next, early, more, together, thereof, up, strictly, further, likewise, much, lately, there, ever, yet, justly, always, otherwise, accordingly, particularly, again, here, all, thereby

Next steps

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