Distant Reader - subject-conversion-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 23 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 823,282 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 35,794 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 95. 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, christ, man, shall, may, lord, heart, yet, men, must, now, good, life, one, world, make, come, sinne, doth, us, sin, say, see, never, many, much, take, gods, therefore, hee, grace, way, things, let, love, know, though, without, word, first, heaven, spirit, ever, made, self, great, soul, true, give

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are Directions and perswasions to a sound conversion for prevention of that deceit and damnation of souls, and of those scandals, heresies, and desperate apostasies that are the consequents of a counterfeit, or superficial change / by Richard Baxter., The soules preparation for Christ. Or, A treatise of contrition Wherein is discovered how God breaks the heart and wounds the soule, in the conversion of a sinner to Himselfe., and A call to the unconverted to turn and live and accept of mercy while mercy may be had as ever they would find mercy in the day of their extremity from the living God / by his unworthy servant, Richard Baxter ; to be read in families where any are unconverted..

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

god will, jesus christ, holy ghost, lord jesus, will make, english books, roman non, early english, will never, christ jesus, thine heart, every one, may bee, books online, man may, will give, iesus christ, god doth, lord will, must needs, let us, page images, every man, first loue, text creation, creation partnership, living god, lord god, shall never, will take, wicked men, one day, christ will, may see, shall bee, take heed, will save, vnto vs, wicked man, man must, must know, will come, lord iesus, shall see, one thing, yet will, will say, god may, wee may, new creature

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are The pagans debt and dowry, or, A brief discussion of these questions how far and in what sence such persons of mankinde amongst whom the letter of the Gospel never came are not withstanding bound to believe on Jesus Christ (with some other particulars relating hereunto) : returned by way of answer to a discourse in writing lately sent without name (together with a letter subscribed only T.S.) unto Mr. John Goodwin, the author as yet unknown to him, yer (as appears by the said discourse) a person of worth and learning, and (as he supposeth) a minister of the Gospel / by the said John Goodvvin. The sincere convert discovering the paucity of true beleevers and the great difficulty of saving conversion by Tho. Shepheard ...., and A letter to Dr. Burnet from the Right Honourable the Earl of Rochester, as he lay on his death-bed, at His Honours lodge in Woodstock-Park / printed from the original, wrote with his own hand, June 25, 1680, at twelve at night..

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, christ, tcp, spirit, law, gods, conversion, father, church, world, thy, psal, heaven, gospel, cor, thou, saints, rom, mat, holy, devil, covenant, soul, saviour, prov, nature, man, kingdom, heart, apostle, word, truth, thee, sinne, sin, salvation, reason, minister, men, love, life, joh, isa, iesus, grace, gospell, conscience, whore, turn

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 The libertine overthrown, or, A mirror for atheists wherein they may clearly see their prodigious follies, vast extravagancies, notorious impieties and absurdities : containing a compendious account of the ... life and ... death of that the whole ... abstracted from the remarks of the Right Reverend D. Gilbert Burnet ... and the Reverend Mr. Parsons ... 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, heart, men, life, world, sin, sinne, things, way, self, word, thing, grace, day, hearts, time, soule, work, sins, thy, soul, sinnes, reason, death, mercy, selves, hath, doth, nothing, faith, power, glory, hee, love, thee, flesh, people, truth, end, others, nature, salvation, case, hand, souls, light, conscience, mind, art, part

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, do, was, were, make, come, had, say, see, take, let, know, made, give, did, think, set, been, turn, live, hath, am, being, go, done, said, put, saved, save, tell, consider, bee, doth, ''s, find, hear, bring, called, believe, cast, lay, found, stand, given, love, look, speak

Proper Nouns

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

god, thou, christ, lord, hath, heaven, gods, spirit, rom, 〉, hell, cor, mat, psal, jesus, conversion, church, law, ◊, wee, ●, iohn, gospel, father, luke, 〈, yea, hee, c., thee, hast, holy, prov, doe, world, grace, bee, tcp, ye, mans, esay, covenant, sinne, art, kingdom, devil, satan, saviour, love, canst

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, you, his, he, they, i, him, them, their, your, thy, we, our, my, thee, me, us, themselves, himself, her, its, she, one, mine, yours, thou, theirs, ye, ours, vp, vnto, l, s, ps, o, yee, pe, ourselves, ''em, 〈, ●, y, whosoever, whereof, vai''ld, trye, thyself, sufficiēt, oft, hee

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?"

good, such, own, many, more, great, true, other, much, little, first, holy, wicked, new, same, better, whole, full, very, able, few, last, poor, sure, best, dead, least, greatest, unconverted, vain, present, false, doth, common, ready, willing, free, open, everlasting, wise, greater, right, necessary, most, glorious, miserable, high, happy, saith, gracious

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

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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