Distant Reader - subject-death-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 53 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 1,954,798 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 36,882 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, death, shall, will, life, man, may, bee, christ, hee, vs, haue, us, lord, world, yet, men, one, good, wee, must, great, now, time, let, make, things, day, vnto, therefore, come, much, like, many, body, soule, without, see, note, first, vpon, gods, made, doth, faith, spirit, though, heart, say, die

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are The last battell of the soule in death diuided into eight cof̃erences ... : whereby are shown the diuerse skirmishes that are between the soule of man on his death-bedde, and the enemies of our saluation : carefullie digested for the comfort of the sicke / by Mr. Zachary Boyd, preacher of Gods word at Glasgow., A mappe of mans mortalitie Clearely manifesting the originall of death, with the nature, fruits, and effects thereof, both to the vnregenerate, and elect children of God. Diuided into three bookes; and published for the furtherance of the wise in practise, the humbling of the strong in conceit, and for the comfort and confirmation of weake Christians, against the combat of death, that they may wisely and seasonably be prepared against the same. Whereunto are annexed two consolatory sermons, for afflicted Christians, in their greatest conflicts. By Iohn Moore, minister of the word of God, at Shearsbie in Leicester-shire., and Christian observations and resolutions, or, The daylie practise of the renewed man, turning all occurrents to spirituall uses, and these uses to his vnion with God I. centurie : vvith a resolution for death, &c. / newlie published by Mr William Struther ....

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

note note, shall bee, let vs, roman non, sicke man, jesus christ, may bee, great salvation, let us, wee haue, english books, early english, god will, long life, iesus christ, vnto vs, wee may, books online, wee must, wee shall, hee shall, mine heart, hee will, shall see, haue beene, holy ghost, shall come, will make, page images, one day, must bee, creation partnership, text creation, must die, will bee, man may, right hand, must needs, vnto god, gods word, old age, shall neuer, lord jesus, death will, may see, note psal, make vs, gods children, good men, hee may

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. Of the death of Christ, the price he paid, and the purchase he made. Or, the satisfaction, and merit of the death of Christ cleered, the universality of redemption thereby oppugned: and the doctrine concerning these things formerly delivered in a treatise against universal redemption vindicated from the exceptions, and objections of Mr Baxter. / By J. Owen, minister of the gospel., and Death''s alarum: or, Security''s vvarning-piece. A sermon preached in S. Dionis Back-Church, at the funerall of Mrs. Mary Smith (daughter of Mr. Isaac Colfe, formerly minister of Gods Word at Chadwell in Essex, and late wife of Mr. Richard Smith of London, draper) who dyed the 9th. day of Novemb. 1653. and was buried the 16th of the same moneth. By Nath: Hardy, Mr. of Arts, and preacher to that parish..

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, death, tcp, christ, man, life, world, spirit, soul, gods, bee, haue, good, father, church, body, thy, hee, iesus, christian, soule, saints, psal, law, earth, day, wee, thou, resurrection, king, gospel, faith, doth, time, thing, saviour, roman, men, jesus, hath, children, sunne, prophet, great, cor, apostle, angels, thee, state

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 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?":

death, life, man, men, time, things, world, day, body, hee, heart, nothing, thing, end, way, faith, soule, sin, nature, soul, grace, hath, selfe, reason, glory, earth, doth, place, note, thy, others, part, eyes, hand, flesh, ▪, word, self, power, sins, sinne, children, bodies, light, feare, comfort, state, hope, none, words

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, let, make, had, do, come, bee, being, see, made, say, did, die, know, take, haue, said, am, hath, put, live, been, vnto, done, neuer, set, according, think, note, liue, called, give, taken, consider, blessed, bring, desire, go, seeing, makes, find, found, cast, dying, fall

Proper Nouns

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

god, christ, thou, 〉, ◊, lord, 〈, wee, hath, bee, haue, hee, gods, spirit, world, doe, soule, heaven, father, ye, ●, c., death, vs, life, faith, heauen, vp, hast, man, yea, thee, holy, tcp, yee, jesus, church, cor, earth, grace, mans, owne, law, mee, christian, hell, loue, psal, king, iesus

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, our, i, he, they, we, their, them, him, my, you, thy, us, your, me, her, thee, its, she, himself, themselves, vp, mine, one, ye, ours, ourselves, vnto, theirs, yee, yours, itself, ''s, ''em, elias, hee, †, whereof, thou, thēselues, s, hers, ay, ●, vs, pelf, herself, em, worke

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, great, such, many, other, more, same, first, little, own, last, true, much, dead, most, better, best, full, long, present, whole, able, saith, old, holy, greatest, greater, non, wicked, -, roman, wise, glorious, new, second, haue, least, short, sure, sicke, ready, very, high, strong, godly, free, eternal, happy, wee, common

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

Next steps

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