Distant Reader - subject-churchOfIreland-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 6 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 102,506 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 17,084 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 87. 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:

church, god, ireland, one, may, non, bishop, also, cap, will, hee, bee, est, lib, ad, first, time, de, shall, lord, christ, ibid, might, rome, yet, us, now, id, made, king, qui, ut, day, bishops, doth, let, st, man, men, onely, saith, without, holy, faith, great, therefore, text, good, life, many

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are A discourse of the religion anciently professed by the Irish and Brittish. By Iames Vssher Archbishop of Armagh, and Primate of Ireland, The judgement of the late Arch-Bishop of Armagh and Primate of Ireland 1. Of the extent of Christs death and satisfaction &c, 2. Of the Sabbath, and observation of the Lords day, 3. Of the ordination in other reformed churches : with a vindication of him from a pretended change of opinion in the first, some advertisements upon the latter, and in prevention of further injuries, a declaration of his judgement in several other subjects / by N. Bernard., and A form of reconciliation of lapsed Protestants and of admission of Romanists to the communion of the Church of Ireland / written by the Right Reverend Father in God Anthony Lord Bishop of Meath..

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

lords day, early english, english books, king henry, george browne, books online, creation partnership, page images, whole world, text creation, may bee, id est, late arch, reformed churches, holy ghost, holy scriptures, sir anthony, every one, might bee, characters represented, wee may, image sets, mother church, tcp schema, represented either, usque ad, reverend father, may see, jesus christ, let us, sir james, non est, take notice, like manner, saint paul, giraldus cambrensis, christs death, bishop aidan, lords supper, many yeares, thought fit, wee reade, hee might, hee may, christs satisfaction, christ church, gods justice, free will, will never, may easily

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are The judgement of the late Arch-Bishop of Armagh and Primate of Ireland 1. Of the extent of Christs death and satisfaction &c, 2. Of the Sabbath, and observation of the Lords day, 3. Of the ordination in other reformed churches : with a vindication of him from a pretended change of opinion in the first, some advertisements upon the latter, and in prevention of further injuries, a declaration of his judgement in several other subjects / by N. Bernard. Historical collections of the church in Ireland during the reigns of K. Henry VIII, Edward VI and Q. Mary wherein are several material passages omitted by other historians concerning the manner how that kingdom was first converted to the Protestant religion and how by the special providence of God, Dr. Cole, a bloody agent of Q. Mary was prevented in his designs against the Protestants there : set forth in the life and death of George Browne, sometime Archbishop of Dublin, who was the first of the Romish clergy in Ireland that threw off the Popes supremacy and forsook the idolatrous worship of of [sic] Rome : with a sermon of his on that subject., and A declaration of the Lords spiritual and Temporal, and the Commons in this present Parliament of Ireland assembled, concerning ecclesiastical government and the Book of common-prayer.

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, ireland, church, god, lord, archbishop, scriptures, scottish, sabbath, rome, romane, primate, priests, priest, pope, patrick, non, minister, matth, lords, lib, letter, law, kingdome, king, irish, idaho, ibid, highness, hiberniae, hee, grace, government, george, gal, english, england, ecclesiae, easter, early, doctrine, dei, congregation, clergie, christi, christ, cap, britons, bishops, bishop

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 church, and A discourse of the religion anciently professed by the Irish and Brittish. By Iames Vssher Archbishop of Armagh, and Primate of Ireland 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?":

p., cap, time, ad, day, men, man, life, things, hee, faith, place, others, manner, communion, judgement, hath, part, text, order, name, people, death, truth, doth, world, body, way, matter, sinnes, none, words, satisfaction, person, nothing, end, power, one, hands, grace, word, religion, hist, dayes, bed, works, prayers, thing, author, times

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, have, were, did, are, had, being, been, made, do, said, let, bee, according, received, say, make, come, given, take, put, give, receive, sent, having, done, observed, see, read, taken, called, concerning, held, found, know, used, thought, am, hath, written, wrote, has, following, encoded, stand, learned, brought, use

Proper Nouns

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

〉, ◊, 〈, l., church, god, ireland, bishop, lib, est, lord, christ, rome, de, ●, king, c., st., id., s., bishops, hath, ibid, england, qui, dublin, non, wee, tcp, hee, bee, lords, à, pag, sed, doe, archbishop, primate, ab, irish, holy, pope, ex, ms, armagh, henry, cum, vit, sir, law

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, i, they, their, him, them, our, you, we, your, us, my, me, themselves, her, thy, himself, she, its, thee, theirs, ours, yours, mine, u, ●, ye, whereof, tke, si, s, one, hee, f, b

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, same, such, first, many, great, good, own, whole, true, more, former, ancient, several, common, late, much, saith, little, last, holy, second, most, new, present, old, early, english, non, further, fit, wise, doth, latter, able, particular, large, full, due, better, publick, like, free, sufficient, next, greater, dead, available, general, contrary

not, so, also, then, now, more, here, therefore, onely, well, as, up, thus, most, yet, only, ibid, very, there, out, first, much, together, ever, thereof, rather, never, even, in, long, therein, still, formerly, away, indeed, alone, likewise, before, otherwise, whatsoever, off, all, afterwards, over, further, fully, forth, sufficiently, far, down

Next steps

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