Distant Reader - subject-apostles-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 2021-05-24 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 24 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 4,159,690 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 173,320 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 91. 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, christ, us, hee, shall, may, man, will, one, yet, men, first, faith, bee, church, lord, things, therefore, wee, must, made, life, good, great, time, might, world, now, holy, though, gods, without, much, make, true, death, doth, many, nature, like, every, spirit, come, also, saith, place, law, onely, power, word

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are An exposition of the Creed: or, An explanation of the articles of our Christian faith. Delivered in many afternoone sermons, by that reverend and worthy divine, Master Iohn Smith, late preacher of the Word at Clavering in Essex, and sometime fellow of Saint Iohns Colledge in Oxford. Now published for the benefit and behoofe of all good Christians, together with an exact table of all the chiefest doctrines and vses throughout the whole booke, An expositon of all St. Pauls epistles together with an explanation of those other epistles of the apostles St. James, Peter, John & Jude : wherein the sense of every chapter and verse is analytically unfolded and the text enlightened. / David Dickson ..., and Antiquitates christianæ, or, The history of the life and death of the holy Jesus as also the lives acts and martyrdoms of his Apostles : in two parts..

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

holy ghost, let us, shall bee, may bee, right hand, every man, every one, wee may, iesus christ, wee must, high priest, gods word, romish church, jesus christ, god will, visible church, wee see, humane nature, one another, must needs, eternal life, hee will, hee might, might bee, must bee, tells us, man may, teach us, shall come, christian faith, take away, holy spirit, wee shall, old testament, haue beene, therefore wee, saint paul, holy jesus, good things, much lesse, hee shall, new testament, true faith, good works, bring forth, hee may, may see, last day, make us, give us

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are The Parliaments X. commandements. The cities X commandements, commanded to be read in all churches, by Mr L. Warner and the Common Councell., and An endeavovr of making the principles of Christian religion, namely the Creed, the Ten Commandements, the Lords prayer, and the Sacraments, plaine and easie tending to the more speedy instruction of the meanest capacities, and weakest memories, and for the making triall also of their understandings, who though they have attained some measure of saving knowledge, yet through the weaknesse of their abilities cannot expresse even that which they doe conceive..

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, christ, law, father, christian, spirit, ghost, saviour, faith, holy, gods, apostle, temple, scripture, prophet, king, disciples, word, son, priest, paul, jews, iewes, divine, romish, religion, prophets, peter, nature, man, kingdome, iohn, iesus, gospell, doctrine, article, angels, testament, tcp, sonne, pope, nations, matth, life, grace, gospel, gentiles, cor

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 treatise containing the originall of vnbeliefe, misbeliefe, or misperswasions concerning the veritie, vnitie, and attributes of the Deitie with directions for rectifying our beliefe or knowledge in the fore-mentioned points. By Thomas Iackson Dr. in Divinitie, vicar of Saint Nicholas Church in the famous towne of New-castle vpon Tine, and late fellow of Corpus Christi Colledge in Oxford. 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, men, things, time, hee, life, faith, death, world, place, day, others, nature, power, vers, part, people, reason, body, way, thing, truth, words, sin, word, name, glory, nothing, times, doth, manner, hath, end, sins, p., hand, grace, person, earth, flesh, heart, sense, respect, scripture, self, works, sinnes, matter, love, 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, are, had, have, were, did, made, being, make, do, bee, come, said, been, say, see, take, let, know, according, called, done, give, concerning, put, came, set, given, seeing, hath, taken, brought, believe, having, found, bring, doe, makes, am, suffer, vnto, doth, sent, follow, gave, written, live, receive

Proper Nouns

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

god, 〉, ◊, 〈, christ, lord, church, wee, hath, gods, c., hee, s., thou, holy, law, father, bee, heaven, faith, spirit, ●, paul, saviour, christs, peter, jesus, son, moses, gospel, doe, jews, christian, ghost, de, est, world, st., christians, apostles, prophet, word, iesus, abraham, king, doctrine, haue, sonne, david, ye

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, it, he, they, their, our, him, them, we, i, us, you, my, himself, her, themselves, your, thy, me, its, thee, she, theirs, one, ye, ours, mine, vp, yee, vnto, hee, ourselves, yours, whereof, elias, †, thou, u, itself, ‖, whosoever, herself, hers, 〈, s, trodden, nulla, non, myself, gods

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?"

such, other, great, same, good, true, first, many, own, more, former, much, holy, greater, second, whole, present, most, last, saith, particular, better, dead, little, like, right, new, necessary, full, best, least, old, able, very, divine, visible, common, natural, greatest, wicked, high, proper, christian, third, perfect, free, certain, spiritual, eternal, excellent

not, so, then, more, therefore, now, as, most, yet, also, only, up, thus, first, onely, well, much, out, even, here, never, rather, very, that, is, ever, away, there, together, too, again, secondly, before, especially, forth, still, no, indeed, all, long, in, far, once, down, off, otherwise, truly, sometimes, whatsoever, often

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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