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Eric Lease Morgan Number of items in the collection; 'How big is my corpus?' ---------------------------------------------------------- 4 Average length of all items measured in words; "More or less, how big is each item?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 49542 Average readability score of all items (0 = difficult; 100 = easy) ------------------------------------------------------------------ 72 Top 50 statistically significant keywords; "What is my collection about?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3 man 2 year 2 time 2 thing 2 life 2 german 2 book 2 Sea 2 Nostromo 2 Mr. 2 Henry 2 England 2 Conrad 2 Captain 2 Almayer 1 word 1 western 1 story 1 state 1 ship 1 power 1 polish 1 note 1 like 1 great 1 fact 1 english 1 british 1 american 1 York 1 Titanic 1 Titan 1 States 1 Sister 1 Russia 1 Republic 1 Puritanism 1 Puritan 1 Poland 1 Old 1 New 1 Marlowe 1 Lord 1 London 1 Jim 1 Jennie 1 James 1 Huneker 1 Howells 1 God Top 50 lemmatized nouns; "What is discussed?" --------------------------------------------- 686 man 401 life 383 book 329 time 279 year 263 thing 233 story 222 day 221 fact 220 ship 213 world 213 work 204 sea 200 word 196 nothing 190 way 175 mind 172 art 168 truth 158 people 156 hand 153 end 152 novel 149 sense 146 sort 137 character 135 power 134 one 129 war 125 something 125 part 124 form 123 moment 121 idea 120 heart 112 course 110 matter 108 place 108 eye 104 tale 104 author 101 x 99 case 98 point 98 page 97 artist 94 reader 93 woman 90 nature 89 feeling Top 50 proper nouns; "What are the names of persons or places?" -------------------------------------------------------------- 1628 _ 228 Conrad 148 Dreiser 107 New 89 Mr. 76 Russia 68 Poland 67 York 66 Captain 63 Puritan 63 English 62 England 60 Huneker 60 Europe 59 Sea 58 Henry 57 Nostromo 55 James 55 France 53 Jim 50 Almayer 49 Mr 49 Carrie 49 American 48 God 47 M. 45 Jennie 41 Old 39 States 39 Lord 39 London 35 Gerhardt 35 Anatole 35 America 34 J. 34 George 34 Co. 33 C. 32 Titan 32 Sister 31 S. 31 Comstock 30 W. 30 Puritanism 30 Joseph 30 H. 28 Nigger 28 Folly 27 X 27 William Top 50 personal pronouns nouns; "To whom are things referred?" ------------------------------------------------------------- 2452 it 1982 i 1641 he 592 they 505 we 455 him 445 them 373 me 305 you 235 us 198 himself 163 she 145 one 137 itself 104 myself 94 her 67 themselves 17 ourselves 12 herself 8 yourself 7 oneself 7 mine 3 his 2 ours 2 ''s 1 ï 1 yours 1 up"--"to 1 theirs 1 inn 1 hurstwood 1 hers Top 50 lemmatized verbs; "What do things do?" --------------------------------------------- 7483 be 2547 have 715 do 418 say 408 make 336 see 295 know 254 come 253 go 233 find 229 take 212 write 212 seem 212 give 172 think 157 get 152 look 134 believe 122 remain 122 feel 118 tell 118 become 116 call 109 stand 108 leave 107 speak 107 begin 106 read 105 bring 104 put 102 show 90 hear 87 turn 86 live 85 remember 85 hold 82 appear 81 pass 81 keep 76 mean 75 try 73 lie 68 understand 67 forget 67 carry 65 bear 64 set 64 let 63 move 61 follow Top 50 lemmatized adjectives and adverbs; "How are things described?" --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1738 not 561 so 538 more 447 very 417 only 385 even 324 other 310 first 308 great 261 much 259 up 250 most 238 as 236 never 232 well 226 too 222 good 211 own 209 out 208 then 206 such 179 perhaps 178 here 177 old 173 now 164 many 159 last 158 same 157 little 153 long 153 also 152 new 151 enough 148 almost 144 always 143 there 141 far 140 moral 135 yet 135 whole 132 ever 132 certain 128 still 121 less 120 all 117 human 116 on 115 mere 115 indeed 108 once Top 50 lemmatized superlative adjectives; "How are things described to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 86 good 59 least 49 most 33 great 20 slight 20 high 17 bad 15 late 9 fine 8 near 6 simple 6 full 6 faint 6 early 6 deep 5 clear 5 Most 4 mere 4 eld 3 strong 3 noble 3 manif 3 low 3 long 3 innermost 3 dark 3 common 2 young 2 thick 2 mean 2 lofty 2 large 2 happy 2 easy 2 dear 2 close 2 big 2 base 1 z 1 writhe 1 wise 1 warm 1 vile 1 view,--altogeth 1 vain 1 vague 1 true 1 tiny 1 thin 1 strict Top 50 lemmatized superlative adverbs; "How do things do to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 201 most 10 well 9 least 1 orleans,--the 1 long 1 easiest Top 50 Internet domains; "What Webbed places are alluded to in this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 www.freeliterature.org Top 50 URLs; "What is hyperlinked from this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------- 1 http://www.freeliterature.org Top 50 email addresses; "Who are you gonna call?" ------------------------------------------------- 1 ccx074@coventry.ac.uk Top 50 positive assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-noun?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5 _ is _ 4 _ see _ 3 life is too 3 man is not 2 _ is not 2 _ was _ 2 book is not 2 conrad is tender 2 dreiser is not 2 men do n''t 2 stories are not 2 time was about 2 world is not 1 _ are amazing 1 _ are romantic 1 _ are there 1 _ became aware 1 _ does _ 1 _ had already 1 _ has not 1 _ has only 1 _ is captain 1 _ is extremely 1 _ is nothing 1 _ is simply 1 _ is valuable 1 _ is worth 1 _ knows more 1 _ remained afloat 1 _ seems child''s 1 _ seen _ 1 _ spoke strongly 1 _ was also 1 _ was not 1 _ was only 1 _ went down 1 art are dependent 1 art is art 1 art is dead 1 art is genuine 1 art is long 1 art is magic 1 art is still 1 art is such 1 art were recondite 1 book had something 1 book has compensatory 1 book have not 1 book is _ 1 book is closed Top 50 negative assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-no|not-noun?" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 _ has no rival 1 _ is not simply 1 book was not generally 1 books are not worthy 1 books is not merely 1 character is not altogether 1 day is not quite 1 days was not poe 1 dreiser did not actually 1 dreiser is not even 1 dreiser is not once 1 dreiser makes no such 1 man is not false 1 man is not melodramatic 1 man is not only 1 ship is not so 1 sort are not altogether 1 stories are not chronicles 1 stories were not even 1 thing is no more 1 thing is not mere 1 times is not imaginative 1 words is no such 1 world is not america A rudimentary bibliography -------------------------- id = 1143 author = Conrad, Joseph title = Notes on Life & Letters date = keywords = Anatole; East; England; Europe; France; Henry; James; London; Mr.; Poland; Republic; Russia; Sea; Titanic; british; german; great; life; like; man; polish; power; ship; state; thing; time; western; year summary = had come to an end too; yet work so simple and human, so independent of the way of true wisdom for men and States to take account of things as Man of the Sea, and wait half-doubting for the birth of a nation''s soul great change of sea life since my time was brought home to me. calmly: "General mobilisation, do you know?" We looked at her like men like to know at what time of history the English Merchant Service, the tradition of the sea, which made by the work of men has in its turn as a man who has lived on it for many years, at a time, too, when on one of the look-out men was stationed in the "eyes of the ship" was too who read sea stories know) that when a ship sinks from a leak like this, advantage of bulkheads comes in--for time is a great friend, a good id = 20150 author = Conrad, Joseph title = Notes on My Books date = keywords = Almayer; Captain; Mr.; Nostromo; book; fact; life; man; note; story; thing; time; word; year summary = far, we talk a little about the aim--the aim of art, which, like life that story marks the first appearance in the world of the man Marlow, The End of the Tether is a story of sea-life in a rather the pages of that story--a fair half of the book--are also the product rest like a true confession on matters of fact which to a friendly and charitable person may convey the inner truth of almost a life-time. in any sort of way, so that one remained faced by the fact of a man He was, however, a man who liked to talk with all sorts of people, and the story is also a fact, well-known at the time though it really in fact, the story of her life. the same time I was just as certain in my mind that "Youth," a story id = 19355 author = Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis) title = A Book of Prefaces date = keywords = Carrie; Co.; Comstock; Conrad; Cowperwood; Dreiser; England; English; Genius; George; Gerhardt; God; Henry; Howells; Huneker; Jennie; New; Old; Puritan; Puritanism; Sister; States; Titan; York; american; book; german; man summary = on Conrad, Dreiser and Huneker, all of whom have printed important new of the Conrad books continued small and the author remained in very [11] Some English Story Tellers: A Book of the Younger Novelists; New [14] Joseph Conrad: A Study; New York, Doubleday, Page & Co., 1914. manner, in "Jennie Gerhardt"; there came from Dreiser the news that he on beautiful letters.[17] And yet the man was a superb artist in works, view of life that got into "Sister Carrie," his first book, was not the a mere story, not a novel in the customary American meaning of the word; times out of ten, in estimating a new man in music or letters, he has finds the best proofs of the Puritan influence in American letters, for Puritans of New England," says Heard, in his book on the Russian church, Libraries, Dreiser''s books in American, 143-5 _n_. id = 49436 author = Walpole, Hugh title = Joseph Conrad date = keywords = Almayer; Captain; Chance; Conrad; Folly; Jim; Lord; Marlowe; Nostromo; Sea; english summary = These two novels were followed by a volume of short stories, _Tales of book that closed the first period of his work, _Lord Jim_. the finest short stories in the English language, work of reminiscence, in many ways the greatest of all Conrad''s works, but, for the moment, already said, this is Conrad''s happiest book--indeed, with the possible whole life and pageant of the sea; it is because Conrad holds all three Conrad''s attitude to the Sea herself, in this book, is one of lyrical As other men write of the woman they have loved, so does Conrad Here, as in _Lord Jim_, it is possible to feel that Conrad, Conrad''s second novel, _An Outcast of the Islands_: and again in the earlier novels and tales of Conrad, in _Almayer''s _Nostromo_ may be proved from any other work of Conrad''s. thing that Conrad has done for the English novel--he has brought the