Distant Reader - subject-estatesLaw-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 13 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 84,780 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 6,521 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 81. 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:

de, van, mr, sir, ende, courten, en, parliament, articles, den, te, committee, petition, sr, made, william, iohn, text, dat, shall, court, estate, john, first, time, die, england, order, house, ash, persons, composition, boudaen, al, stawell, without, carew, act, law, op, ashe, will, tcp, het, early, according, sijn, great, now, tot

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are A vindication of the severall actions at law, brought against the heires of Sr. Peter Courten, Knight, and Peter Boudaen, merchants deceased by George Carew, Esqr., James Boeve, merchant, and Hester de Weyer ; with the arraignment of a most scandalous pamphlet called, De quade Minees en practiken van seeckeren George Carew, ontdeckt en opengeleght, tot onderrichtingh en waerschouw aen Nederlandt, door d''Erfgenamen van P.B.C., Zalr. 1675, privately given out to the magistrates in Zeeland., The vindication of Sr. John Stawells remonstrance, against a scurrilous pamphlet written by Mr. John Ash; entituled An answer to divers scandalls mentioned in the humble remonstrance of Sr. John Stawell. As also an answer to a petition of William Lawrence of Edenburgh, Esq; whereunto certain reasons are annexed, directed to the honourable the referrees of his highness most honourable council. With a conclusion humbly offered unto his highnesse the Lord Protector. / Written by Sr. John Stawell. Wherunto are annexed, a letter of Sir Anthony Irbyes, and a short reply of Sr. David Watkins relating unto some parts of the said pamphlet., and A Brief deduction of the case between George Carew Esqr. administrator of the goods and chattels, rights, debts and credits of Sr. William Courten, knight deceased unadministred with his will annexed, plaintiff and [I]acob Pergens, bewinthebber of the West-India Company at their chamber in Amsterdam, defendant : as it was delivered in low-Dutch to the scheepens and iudges in Amsterdam, in the month of October 1676..

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

william courten, van de, sir iohn, sir john, george carew, iohn stawell, sir anthony, early english, pieter boudaen, english books, willem courten, van den, john stawell, books online, early works, high court, de selve, anthony irby, paul pyndar, dat de, peter courten, sir william, peter boudaen, pieter courten, negative oath, edward littleton, without issue, goldsmiths hall, de voorsz, creation partnership, text creation, van sijn, page images, david watkins, den suppliant, sir edward, boudaen courten, alle de, op den, de ridder, sir david, textual changes, niet en, iacob pergens, jacob pergens, stadt middelburgh, de moncy, dat hy, william courtens, van engelant

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are A Brief deduction of the case between George Carew Esqr. administrator of the goods and chattels, rights, debts and credits of Sr. William Courten, knight deceased unadministred with his will annexed, plaintiff and [I]acob Pergens, bewinthebber of the West-India Company at their chamber in Amsterdam, defendant : as it was delivered in low-Dutch to the scheepens and iudges in Amsterdam, in the month of October 1676. To the Parliament of the Common-wealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland the humble petition of Sir Iohn Stawell., and A declaration of the Lords in Parliament assembled concerning the committee sitting at Goldsmiths Hall for composition of delinquents estates. Die Lunæ 1 Februarii 1646..

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, parliament, sir, estate, committee, carew, william, van, suppliant, son, ridder, recovery, pieter, petition, moncy, limitation, lands, john, iohn, ideot, house, george, erfgenamen, ende, derby, courten, court, composition, company, compagnie, commons, boudaen, ashe, ash, articles

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 van, and To the Parliament of the Common-wealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland the humble petition of Sir Iohn Stawell. 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?":

ende, time, text, persons, order, composition, articles, den, part, petition, thing, person, works, hath, life, answer, years, op, benefit, door, day, self, money, l., books, words, truth, power, cause, others, yeare, xml, page, man, hands, reason, proceedings, pounds, things, images, way, image, case, texts, remonstrance, estate, reader, hand, satisfaction, right

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, is, said, have, had, were, did, made, are, being, been, do, die, according, having, make, given, take, met, give, received, admitted, brought, done, come, appears, taken, encoded, set, mentioned, hath, granted, came, say, put, concerning, published, sent, desired, ordered, compound, called, appointed, touching, told, paid, read, performed, written

Proper Nouns

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

van, mr., de, sir, courten, parliament, te, committee, articles, sr, william, iohn, dat, court, john, ende, den, england, petition, ash, estate, boudaen, al, stawell, house, carew, ashe, law, het, tcp, act, sijn, pieter, petitioner, hall, ., en, london, peter, daer, aen, zijn, niet, george, hath, edward, soo, anthony, alle, pergens

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, i, he, my, it, their, me, him, them, they, your, you, himself, we, our, her, us, themselves, she, theirs, its, yours, severall, £, s, non, mine, hers, geseyde

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?"

other, such, same, great, first, own, many, good, early, several, late, present, particular, english, further, false, much, whole, true, common, last, contrary, humble, more, second, pleased, short, available, next, textual, honorable, former, due, honourable, aforesaid, private, severall, large, most, full, void, possible, least, general, keyboarded, financial, commercial, better, voor, publick

not, then, so, now, also, very, first, therefore, only, most, there, more, therein, never, early, in, as, thereof, formerly, accordingly, out, much, here, further, yet, together, well, otherwise, online, onely, afterwards, before, ever, already, thereby, thus, thereupon, andere, humbly, up, over, even, long, fully, at, all, usually, away, forth, far

Next steps

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