Distant Reader - subject-exeterEngland-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 5 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 7,976 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 1,595 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 82. 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:

shall, text, sir, city, exeter, articles, early, within, english, tcp, england, persons, county, parliament, king, books, officers, made, generall, person, forces, exceter, online, thomas, time, march, proclamation, highnesse, fairfax, great, armes, images, whatsoever, eebo, without, commons, governour, encoded, may, sent, xml, vs, thereof, gentlemen, works, day, phase, edward, page, goods

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are The Articles of Exeter made on the rendition thereof : with the vote of the Honourable House of Commons in the approbation of them of the 6 of May, 1646 : with the order and ordinance of the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled for the approbation, publication, and observation of them by all committees, judges, and officers, aud [sic] others concerned in them of the 4 of this instant Novemb, 1647., By the King, a proclamation prohibiting the keeping of Exeter Fair, and other fairs thereabouts, for some time, and By the King. A proclamation of His Majesties grace, favour, and pardon to the inhabitants of his county of his citty of Exceter..

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

early english, english books, books online, thomas fairfax, sir edward, sir thomas, early works, page images, mona logarbo, textual changes, creation partnership, text creation, excellency sir, great britain, george chudley, image set, shall march, institutions providing, tcp assigned, without asking, markup reviewed, images scanned, sir iohn, asking permission, pfs batch, tiff page, xml conversion, batch review, proquest page, edward seymore, work described, online text, financial support, commercial purposes, iv tiff, encoded edition, encoded text, providing financial, text transcribed, creative commons, edward fortescue, bit group, tcp digital, comprized within, honourable house, person whatsoever, short title, defects per, highest captain, standardized format

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are By the King, a proclamation prohibiting the keeping of Exeter Fair, and other fairs thereabouts, for some time A letter from Exceter, sent to the deputy-lievtenants of Sommersetshire subscribed George Chudley, and Nich. Martin ; shewing how Colonell Ruthen sallyed out of Plymouth, and hath taken Sir Edward Fortescue, Sir Edward Seymore, and divers other gentlemen of note prisoners ; with the covenant entred into by the mayor, deputy-lievtenants, and common-councell of the city and county of Exceter ; also the true copy of a letter sent from Bristoll declaring the manner and means how that city was secured from the cavaliers., and The Articles of Exeter made on the rendition thereof : with the vote of the Honourable House of Commons in the approbation of them of the 6 of May, 1646 : with the order and ordinance of the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled for the approbation, publication, and observation of them by all committees, judges, and officers, aud [sic] others concerned in them of the 4 of this instant Novemb, 1647..

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, sir, parliament, king, highnesse, edward, county, city, 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 shall, and A proclamation, for all persons within our quarters in the county of Devon able to bear arms, not being otherwise imployed by His Highnesse, or dispenced withall, to attend His Highnesse now advancing in person to meet the rebels As also for a generall supplication to be made in all churches of Devon and Exeter, on Sunday the 4. of Ianuary, for Gods blessing on His Highnesse, and his forces. / By His Highnesse the Prince of Great Brittain, Duke of Conwall [sic] and Albany, highest captain generall of all His Majesties forces raised and to be raised within the kingdom of England, dominion of VVales and town of Berwick, &c. 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?":

text, persons, articles, time, person, books, images, xml, works, page, day, image, end, liberty, letter, inhabitants, history, goods, forces, changes, texts, edition, blessing, work, transcription, proclamation, others, officers, keying, eebo, county, users, subjects, purposes, party, markup, deputy, defects, arms, terms, support, review, reuse, reproduction, prisoners, phase, pfs, permission, p., original

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:

be, have, is, said, made, been, are, was, sent, encoded, were, taken, has, according, raised, given, being, aim, take, based, receive, read, publish, providing, provided, march, enjoy, do, comprized, belonging, bear, -, support, secured, scanned, reviewed, require, performed, owned, modified, making, make, give, edited, done, distributed, dispenced, described, copied, concerned

Proper Nouns

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

sir, city, exeter, england, tcp, parliament, exceter, county, thomas, king, highnesse, text, governour, fairfax, commons, articles, vs, english, armes, officers, lords, george, generall, edward, transcribed, great, charles, wing, wales, thomason, majesties, souldiers, oxford, mona, master, logarbo, forces, devon, captain, 〉, war, proquest, proclamation, phase, partnership, march, london, john, ii, goe

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?"

their, our, his, them, we, they, it, he, i, themselves, us, her, him, your, you, my, vvith, she

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, early, such, english, same, textual, free, available, true, full, able, present, many, keyboarded, honourable, financial, commercial, tractable, suitable, sufficient, standardized, standard, seekest, professional, next, instant, great, enriched, easier, digital, common, collaborative, reasonable, proofread, own, ninth, highest, fit, first, 17th, sick, severall, safe, ready, possible, more, known, important, illegible, high

not, whatsoever, thereof, now, online, also, early, there, hereby, away, so, as, up, therefore, otherwise, even, above, very, therein, out, most, more, linguistically, in, fully, computationally, together, then, only, next, before, accordingly, wilfully, well, usually, strictly, speedily, solemnly, respectively, never, mutually, likewise, further, forward, first, variously, though, sometimes, respectfully, really

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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