Distant Reader - subject-family-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 9 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 545,104 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 60,567 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 92. 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, may, will, children, good, parents, one, wife, haue, christ, shall, man, things, wiues, much, seruants, must, husbands, great, lord, make, doe, husband, many, yet, masters, also, well, let, like, made, another, therefore, first, church, time, vnto, loue, men, us, though, thing, without, gods, take, duties, place, vpon, now, house

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are Of domesticall duties eight treatises. I. An exposition of that part of Scripture out of which domesticall duties are raised. ... VIII. Duties of masters. By William Gouge., An earnest call to family-religion, or, A discourse concerning family-worship being the substance of eighteen sermons / preached by Samuel Slater., and A new family-book, or, The true interest of families being directions to parents and children, and to those who are instead of parents : shewing them their several duties, and how they may be happy in one another : together with several prayers for families and children, and graces before and after meat : to which is annexed a discourse about the right way of improving our time / by James Kirkwood ... ; with a preface, by Dr. Horneck..

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

one another, holy ghost, set forth, haue beene, jesus christ, gods word, difference betwixt, must needs, god will, husbands consent, one flesh, euery one, will make, great deal, one anothers, two things, let us, see treat, betwixt man, every day, take care, english books, early english, good things, young ones, lord jesus, parents consent, haue done, euery thing, vnto christ, every one, many things, prouident care, set downe, betwixt christ, wiues subiection, take notice, may make, wife must, will haue, books online, ioyned together, great many, good thing, things needfull, fathers house, christs loue, take away, iust cause, bring forth

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are A new family-book, or, The true interest of families being directions to parents and children, and to those who are instead of parents : shewing them their several duties, and how they may be happy in one another : together with several prayers for families and children, and graces before and after meat : to which is annexed a discourse about the right way of improving our time / by James Kirkwood ... ; with a preface, by Dr. Horneck. Of domesticall duties eight treatises. I. An exposition of that part of Scripture out of which domesticall duties are raised. ... VIII. Duties of masters. By William Gouge., and An earnest call to family-religion, or, A discourse concerning family-worship being the substance of eighteen sermons / preached by Samuel Slater..

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, father, tcp, spirit, parents, man, world, men, law, christ, children, wife, souls, scripture, sacrament, psal, prayer, persons, master, love, life, house, holy, gen., family, families, duty, church, child, worship, wiue, treat, thing, soul, servants, seruant, sauiour, sam, salomon, saints, prou, prophet, nature, ministers, mat, mariage, magistrate, king, ioseph

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 Secret and family prayers with brief helps for the more devout receiving of the Lords-Supper And better observation of the Lords-day, as also to further the needfull duties of catechizing, visiting the sick, and personal instruction. Fitted for the use and benefit of the inhabitants of Cartmel in Lancashire. 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?":

children, parents, wife, things, seruants, husbands, wiues, husband, man, masters, time, thing, place, others, way, duties, themselues, men, word, dutie, respect, mariage, reason, duty, day, power, life, master, law, heart, care, childe, answ, house, body, manner, hath, part, words, meanes, consent, nothing, subiection, case, father, good, death, flesh, family, name

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, do, have, make, were, let, had, made, being, take, haue, did, come, see, said, done, know, set, say, doe, been, hath, taken, put, vnto, bring, noted, shew, pray, brought, doing, go, give, giue, according, thinke, teach, called, vse, loue, bound, concerning, doth, serve, keep, consider, think

Proper Nouns

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

god, 〉, 〈, ◊, christ, lord, thou, church, doe, hath, gen., gods, c., haue, yea, children, loue, owne, cor, apostle, holy, father, spirit, man, world, house, family, vp, sam, d, c, parents, christs, men, b, thee, mans, kinde, beene, e, heaven, mat, ye, prayer, king, jesus, downe, law, himselfe, rom

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, it, they, them, his, he, you, him, her, your, i, we, our, she, thy, my, us, me, themselves, thee, himself, its, yours, vp, theirs, one, ye, mine, ours, vnto, hers, em, whereof, s, f, ●, yee, worke, whosoever, wax, u, non, lye, k, itself, hey, h, e''re, e

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, other, great, many, much, more, same, own, first, true, particular, better, little, holy, fit, like, contrary, most, common, greater, haue, best, due, able, former, wise, outward, least, whole, wicked, young, right, very, subiect, ready, free, needfull, forenamed, old, greatest, excellent, present, sufficient, bad, proper, sure, second, necessary, saith

not, so, then, more, also, therefore, as, well, only, very, much, now, too, most, thus, up, out, together, thereof, first, here, yet, forth, away, rather, especially, there, thereby, all, never, therein, indeed, off, better, that, long, in, further, otherwise, is, far, namely, before, ever, else, expresly, down, at, secondly, vs

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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