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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 2021-05-24 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 475 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 18,520,848 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 38,991 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 94. 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, will, shall, lord, may, us, man, men, christ, one, yet, good, great, now, things, people, first, gods, therefore, let, make, see, must, time, doth, many, much, like, made, church, come, also, heart, though, world, word, way, life, say, day, love, take, thing, hee, spirit, might, verse, well, saith, king

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are Annotations upon the five books immediately following the historicall part of the Old Testament (commonly called the five doctrinall or poeticall books) to wit, the book of Iob, the Psalms, the Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and the Song of Solomon ... / by Arthur Jackson ..., An exposition of the prophesie of Hosea begun in divers lectures vpon the first three chapters, at Michaels Cornhill, London / by Jer. Burroughes., and The intercourses of divine love betwixt Christ and his Church, or, The particular believing soul metaphorically expressed by Solomon in the first chapter of the Canticles, or song of songs : opened and applied in several sermons, upon that whole chapter : in which the excellencies of Christ, the yernings of his gospels towards believers, under various circumstances, the workings of their hearts towards, and in, communion with him, with many other gospel propositions of great import to souls, are handles / by John Collinges ....

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

roman non, let us, god will, jesus christ, early english, english books, every one, holy ghost, wicked men, right hand, books online, first prophets, gods people, must needs, will make, last proph, take heed, god doth, shall come, set forth, may see, page images, one another, lord jesus, every man, let vs, many times, lord will, creation partnership, text creation, god shall, shall see, take away, will never, good things, lord god, taken away, may say, gods word, make us, wee may, bring forth, will give, shall never, may bee, lord shall, man may, every thing, two things, notes explaining

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are The psalms of David in meeter: by Mr. Zachary Boyd, preacher of God''s word. The good-vvill of Him that dwelt in the bush: or, The extraordinary happinesse of living under an extraordinary providence. A sermon preached before the Right Honourable, the House of Lords, in the Abbey Church at Westminster, on Tuesday, Iuly 22. 1645. At their publike thanksgiving for the good successe given to the Parliaments forces, under the command of Sir Thomas Fairfax in the west. /, and God iudging among the gods. Opened in a sermon before the Honourable House of Commons assembled in Parliament, upon the solemn day of monethly fast, March 26. 1645. / By Iohn Ward, minister of the gospel in Ipswich, and a member of the Assembly of Divines..

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, lord, tcp, church, king, christ, gods, man, spirit, psal, roman, law, prophet, world, religion, father, people, text, scripture, saints, david, israel, thy, gospel, apostle, word, thou, land, soul, temple, city, non, covenant, cor, nation, good, christian, kingdome, earth, power, holy, psalme, thee, men, love, isa, churches, saviour, life, haue

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 sermon preached before the Right Honourable Sir John Shorter, Knight, Lord Mayor of the city of London at Grocers-Hall by Samuel Slater ... 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, people, time, heart, way, day, life, thing, world, word, words, vers, others, hand, place, power, death, hath, nothing, doth, sin, verse, love, name, grace, faith, glory, part, reason, end, soul, earth, mercy, hearts, truth, enemies, times, children, self, thy, peace, work, nature, hee, selves, light, house, sinne

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, are, was, have, were, had, do, did, let, make, see, made, come, say, said, being, take, been, know, set, give, done, hath, put, called, according, am, go, bring, ''s, brought, taken, given, think, came, found, find, doth, cast, bee, haue, makes, consider, keep, live, stand, speak, call, fall

Proper Nouns

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

god, lord, christ, thou, 〉, ◊, 〈, gods, church, c., hath, israel, king, david, spirit, heaven, doe, wee, ●, yea, psal, law, haue, hee, ye, holy, prophet, moses, father, hast, text, word, gospel, thee, world, tcp, thy, verse, jesus, owne, cor, lords, bee, chap, man, christs, earth, paul, covenant, temple

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?"

it, his, he, they, their, them, i, him, we, our, my, you, us, thy, me, your, her, thee, himself, themselves, she, its, mine, ye, one, theirs, ours, vp, ''s, yours, ''em, vnto, itself, ay, thou, whereof, hers, ourselves, l, yee, s, u, elias, em, gods, hee, whence, us''d, ne, ia

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, great, good, other, many, own, more, first, same, true, much, wicked, last, non, holy, little, -, roman, whole, full, saith, second, high, better, former, wise, old, right, able, godly, new, best, most, very, greater, righteous, poor, least, present, common, glorious, strong, greatest, particular, free, sweet, doth, like, sure, dead

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

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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