Distant Reader - subject-dreams-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 7 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 257,467 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 36,781 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 93. 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, good, dreames, men, may, man, things, dreams, shall, one, soul, great, night, evil, us, yet, sleep, will, nature, dream, body, also, much, lord, like, day, divine, reason, many, time, dreame, spirit, angels, others, first, come, therefore, fear, spirits, make, must, made, thing, now, people, de, death, power, without, world

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are The mystery of dreames, historically discoursed; or A treatise; wherein is clearly discovered, the secret yet certain good or evil, the inconsidered and yet assured truth or falsity, virtue or vanity, misery or mercy, of mens differing dreames. Their distinguishing characters: the divers cases, causes, concomitants, consequences, concerning mens inmost thoughts while asleep. With severall considerable questions, objections, and answers contained therein: and other profitable truths appertaining thereunto. Are from pertinent texts plainly and fully unfolded. / By Philip Goodwin preacher of the Gospel at Watford in Hartfordshire., The interpretation of dreams digested into five books by that ancient and excellent philosopher, Artimedorus / compiled by him in Greek, and translated afterwards into the Latine, the Italian, the French, and Spanish tongues, and now more exactly rendered into English ..., and A treatise of dreams & visions wherein the causes, natures, and uses, of nocturnal representations, and the communications both of good and evil angels, as also departed souls, to mankind. Are theosophically unfolded; that is according to the Word of God, and the harmony of created beings. To which is added, a discourse of the causes, natures, and cure of phrensie, madness or distraction. By Tho. Tryon, student in physick..

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

good angels, let us, evil angels, good dreames, false dreames, vain dreames, good men, men may, every man, english books, early english, every one, good spirits, outward senses, man may, god may, dreames may, books online, wise men, filthy dreames, mans soul, shall come, two sorts, divers vanities, filthy dreamers, divine principle, natural causes, humane nature, evil spirits, page images, much less, creation partnership, blessed creator, text creation, god will, make use, made use, one thing, upper dominion, divine revelation, either good, good angel, common sense, mens minds, departed souls, jesus christ, divine dreams, one dreams, one shall, former ages

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are The mystery of dreames, historically discoursed; or A treatise; wherein is clearly discovered, the secret yet certain good or evil, the inconsidered and yet assured truth or falsity, virtue or vanity, misery or mercy, of mens differing dreames. Their distinguishing characters: the divers cases, causes, concomitants, consequences, concerning mens inmost thoughts while asleep. With severall considerable questions, objections, and answers contained therein: and other profitable truths appertaining thereunto. Are from pertinent texts plainly and fully unfolded. / By Philip Goodwin preacher of the Gospel at Watford in Hartfordshire. The divine dreamer: or, a short treatise discovering the true effect and power of dreames; confirmed by the most learned and best approved authors. Whereunto is annexed the dreame of a young gentleman, immediatly before the death of the late earle of Strafford., and A seasonable vvatch-vvord unto Christians against the dreams & dreamers of this generation delivered in a sermon November 16th. 1665 / and being the last lecture, which was preached by that reverend, faithful and eminent man of God Mr. John Wilson ....

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, tcp, spirit, reason, lord, soul, prophet, man, dreams, dreames, body, angels, world, visions, thing, temperance, senses, scripture, principle, power, nature, love, light, life, king, good, evil, dream, communications, christian, word, wife, truth, sleep, sea, satan, saints, revelation, religion, psal, pag, night, men, matter, master, madness, law, knowledg, job, hee

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 A discourse concerning the divine dreams mention''d in Scripture together with the marks and characters by which they might be distinguish''d from vain delusions : in a letter to Monsieur Gaches / by Moses Amyraldus ; translated out of French by Ja. Lowde ... 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?":

men, man, things, p., night, day, body, sleep, others, time, dreames, nature, soul, reason, thing, people, death, way, dream, power, thoughts, dreams, t, fear, heart, mind, times, self, dreame, nothing, hath, world, ▪, part, divers, evil, vanity, truth, life, sinne, souls, place, use, mens, words, visions, works, whence, viz, senses

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, do, were, had, being, did, come, been, make, said, made, does, see, let, say, take, according, know, give, having, found, set, hath, proceed, came, has, appear, sleep, think, go, saw, signifie, put, done, speak, keep, dream, makes, given, comes, called, arise, sent, concerning, read, become

Proper Nouns

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

god, dreames, 〉, ◊, 〈, dreams, lord, c., ●, soul, angels, spirit, de, spirits, pag, angel, christ, thou, hath, devil, nature, divine, gods, est, satan, mans, dream, dreame, heaven, body, world, lib, king, prophet, holy, tcp, night, principle, evil, reason, man, ibid, t, men, good, light, law, madness, souls, senses

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, they, he, their, them, we, him, i, our, us, you, its, themselves, my, himself, me, her, your, thy, she, thee, one, mine, theirs, thou, il, yours, ye, u, non, lock''t, herself, hers, ●, whereof, us''d, thinne, thier, thereof, solutas, severall, s, p, ours, hade, ay

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, great, other, many, same, evil, own, much, true, more, vain, first, divine, little, certain, awake, holy, false, asleep, like, outward, ill, bad, dead, most, natural, present, filthy, strong, full, particular, wise, whole, strange, ready, wonderful, rich, common, secret, former, greater, sick, free, fierce, old, inward, dark, several, long

not, so, then, more, also, therefore, most, as, very, only, up, now, thus, out, well, yet, much, thereof, never, sometimes, even, here, down, in, especially, indeed, ever, away, first, onely, still, always, therein, too, far, forth, thereby, off, there, often, that, before, is, together, rather, soon, certainly, all, long, again

Next steps

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