Distant Reader - subject-children-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 10 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 209,010 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 20,901 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:

womb, child, take, may, children, will, great, god, half, make, chap, two, blood, much, ounce, use, good, let, dram, water, little, give, one, first, milk, shall, time, lord, cause, come, pain, things, made, yet, must, part, father, many, body, therefore, cure, diseases, oyl, hot, day, also, death, cold, terms, seed

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are Culpeper''s directory for midwives: or, A guide for women. The second part. Discovering, 1. The diseases in the privities of women. 2. The diseases of the privie part. 3. The diseases of the womb ... 14. The diseases and symptoms in children., Paidōn nosēmata· = or Childrens diseases both outward and inward. From the time of their birth to fourteen years of age. With their natures, causes, signs, presages and cures. In three books: 1. Of external 2. Universal 3. Inward diseases. Also, the resolutions of many profitable questions concerning children, and of nurses, and of nursing children. By J. S. physician., and Immoderate mourning for the dead, prov''d unreasonable and unchristian. Or, Some considerations of general use to allay our sorrow for deceased friends and relations but more especially intended for comfort to parents upon the death of their children. By John Owen, chaplain to the right honourable Henry Lord Grey of Ruthen..

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

two drams, two ounces, whole body, early english, english books, sweet almonds, books online, three ounces, small pox, three drams, take away, take heed, red roses, expulsive faculty, one dram, four ounces, external causes, text creation, creation partnership, page images, god will, come forth, fourth book, early works, womb chap, six drams, chamomil flowers, wax make, taken away, years old, creator mind, hard travel, page chap, great creator, new honour, cold distemper, poor children, every day, let us, de morb, take care, cold air, two scruples, much blood, much milk, immediate cause, take oyl, better part, may know, child suck

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are Immoderate mourning for the dead, prov''d unreasonable and unchristian. Or, Some considerations of general use to allay our sorrow for deceased friends and relations but more especially intended for comfort to parents upon the death of their children. By John Owen, chaplain to the right honourable Henry Lord Grey of Ruthen. Londons charity inlarged, stilling the orphans cry. By the liberality of the Parliament, in granting two houses by Act, and giving a thousand pound towards the work for the imployment of the poor, and education of poor children, who many of them are destroyed in their youth for want of being under a good government and education, whereby they may be made serviceable for God, and the Commonwealth. Also this good work is much encouraged by the liberall contributions of many well-affected citizens of London, for the better carrying it on for the glory of God, the honor of the nation, and comfort of the helples poor. With a platform, how many officers needfull to govern 100 children in a work-house, with laws and orders for the schoolmaster to read to the children once a day for a time, afterwards twice a month, whereby they may be kept under a godly and civill government, to the great joy of good peopl. With other observations worthy the reading. / By S.H. a well-wisher to the nations prosperity, and the poors comfort., and An ordinance of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, for the apprehending and bringing to condigne punishment, all such lewd persons as shall steale, sell, buy, inveigle, purloyne, convey, or receive any little children And for the strict and diligent search of all ships and other vessels on the river, or at the downes. Die Veneris, 9. Maii. 1645..

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, child, tcp, lord, children, father, parents, oyl, nurse, nature, lords, diseases, decoction, cure, christ, world, work, word, womb, wine, virgins, terms, syrup, symptoms, stomach, st., spirit, soul, son, signs, roses, relations, prognostick, pouder, oyntment, ounces, nation, mugwort, mother, mints, milk, mastich, london, hippocrates, hell, guts, grace, gospel, glass, friends

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 child, and Immoderate mourning for the dead, prov''d unreasonable and unchristian. Or, Some considerations of general use to allay our sorrow for deceased friends and relations but more especially intended for comfort to parents upon the death of their children. By John Owen, chaplain to the right honourable Henry Lord Grey of Ruthen. 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?":

child, womb, blood, children, ounce, milk, dram, time, water, things, pain, body, part, day, terms, seed, t, parts, death, signs, drams, cause, s, matter, ●, life, humors, nature, ounces, heart, belly, man, way, others, head, women, men, heat, sin, work, roots, h, e, reason, diseases, years, strength, handful, text, mind

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, have, was, take, make, had, being, let, do, give, come, made, use, were, said, did, see, been, put, say, cured, go, add, live, called, know, comes, used, die, taken, think, am, boyl, makes, bring, known, done, sent, hath, born, find, according, set, grow, brought, lay, keep, having

Proper Nouns

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

●, god, 〉, chap, ◊, 〈, lord, father, children, christ, womb, oyl, cure, roses, c., s, diseases, tcp, mother, wine, de, thou, e, nurse, disease, hath, london, world, causes, lib, david, prognostick, decoction, grace, feaver, stomach, belly, ounces, juyce, syrup, ounce, diet, chamomil, spirit, john, water, heaven, t, jesus, honey

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, they, his, he, i, them, their, him, you, we, my, her, our, she, me, your, us, its, thy, himself, themselves, thee, mine, one, s, ours, l, ''s, ●, ye, whereof, yours, theirs, ya, y, u, pe, ob, myself, kn, itself, hystericis, gs, em

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?"

great, such, good, little, other, many, hot, cold, much, more, first, poor, same, hard, sharp, old, sweet, own, thick, red, dangerous, better, dead, dry, whole, natural, weak, strong, moist, bad, thin, last, new, early, true, greater, most, white, best, ill, least, like, full, small, few, convenient, long, common, young, evil

not, then, so, very, more, up, therefore, also, too, now, out, much, often, only, first, away, well, forth, as, thus, most, sometimes, yet, again, never, long, in, here, especially, before, there, down, rather, easily, presently, indeed, still, off, once, afterwards, on, soon, chiefly, outwardly, ever, all, together, onely, over, hence

Next steps

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