Distant Reader - subject-dutchWar-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 15 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 190,580 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 12,705 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:

king, peace, prince, france, great, french, war, majesty, one, made, us, will, england, much, time, make, first, may, dutch, yet, court, without, well, lord, might, now, english, monsieur, men, must, part, never, tcp, two, states, text, many, treaty, shall, thought, holland, ambassadors, good, since, present, nation, either, man, last, general

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are Memoirs of what past in Christendom, from the war begun 1672 to the peace concluded 1679, The English ballance weighing the reasons of Englands present conjunction with France against the Dutch vvith some observes upon His Majesties declaration of liberty to tender consciences., and A letter from Monsieur de Cros (who was an embassador at the Treaty of Nimeguen and a resident in England in K. Ch. the Second''s reign) which may serve for an answer to the impostures of Sir. Wm. Temple, heretofore ambassador from England at the Hague and at Nimeguen ... : together with some remarks upon his memoirs, to make appear how grosly he is mistaken in the greatest part of the most important matters he relates concerning what passed from the year 1672 until the year 1679..

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

english books, early english, imperial majesty, books online, lord arlington, creation partnership, text creation, lord treasurer, french ambassadors, page images, dutch ambassadors, represented either, characters represented, image sets, tcp schema, christian majesty, monsieur de, separate peace, mean time, united provinces, let us, great britain, whole course, sir lionel, dutch war, thought fit, general peace, will never, charles ii, protestant party, royal highness, states general, monsieur beverning, without asking, make us, creative commons, encoded texts, libraries guidelines, publisher proquest, therefore chose, de witt, subject areas, produce large, texts based, tcp aimed, textual data, tiff page, text selection, bit group, texts created

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are At the Court at Whitehall, the fifteenth of May, 1672. Whereas his Majesty did the seventeenth of March past, upon the reading in Council his declaration of war against the States General of the United Provinces of the Low Countries ... propose the observance ... for withdrawing the persons and goods of all Dutch subjects which were found here ... A proclamation, for publishing the peace between His Majesty and the States General of the United Netherlands., and His Majesties gracious declaration, for the encouraging the subjects of the United Provinces of the Low-Countreys, to transport themselves with their estates, and to settle in this His Majesties kingdom of England. / Published by the advice of his Privy Council..

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, majesty, king, war, prince, english, majesties, lord, french, england, court, states, france, dutch, treaty, tei, spragg, sir, sea, sacred, royal, religion, protestant, popish, peace, parties, parliament, nation, monsieur, ministers, jesuits, imperial, hollanders, holland, highness, hague, god, fleet, fate, empire, duke, cowley, covenant, countrey, council, confederates, church, army, ambassadors, allies

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 king, and His Majesties gracious declaration, for the encouraging the subjects of the United Provinces of the Low-Countreys, to transport themselves with their estates, and to settle in this His Majesties kingdom of England. / Published by the advice of his Privy Council. 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?":

time, part, war, men, thing, peace, man, nothing, day, way, text, people, nation, interest, rest, things, reason, side, terms, place, self, others, tho, texts, hath, end, towns, t, course, kings, hand, mind, characters, subjects, matter, order, occasion, king, empire, work, honour, manner, hands, orders, treaty, liberty, xml, power, business, books

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:

was, be, had, have, is, were, been, are, made, make, do, did, being, having, said, thought, give, done, ''s, told, say, found, given, know, sent, think, see, let, came, left, go, take, knew, taken, gave, put, began, come, set, am, encoded, lost, went, fall, brought, agreed, leave, find, enter, intended

Proper Nouns

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

prince, king, majesty, france, england, peace, french, court, dutch, lord, war, monsieur, tcp, states, holland, english, god, sir, ambassadors, nimeguen, duke, treaty, spain, army, de, princes, allies, hath, hague, imperial, ministers, parliament, majesties, master, empire, honour, flanders, house, highness, orange, text, tei, eebo, ambassador, general, state, arlington, crown, confederates, emperor

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, their, they, them, our, him, my, we, me, us, you, your, himself, themselves, her, its, she, theirs, ''s, thy, one, yours, ours, us''d, ''em, ourselves, itself, thee, l, ye, whereof, thou, mine, dy''d, delf, ce

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?"

great, other, such, own, more, first, many, much, same, french, good, several, last, present, least, late, true, little, whole, most, general, new, ill, particular, greatest, greater, english, early, next, necessary, old, sure, able, better, common, ready, dutch, best, certain, second, long, very, private, former, available, sudden, like, considerable, short, fit

not, so, very, then, as, now, well, more, never, only, there, much, out, most, up, ever, too, yet, first, therefore, even, onely, also, rather, over, thus, here, far, in, still, on, long, soon, immediately, just, away, indeed, further, together, thereby, however, wholly, certainly, all, already, abroad, once, again, about, no

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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