Distant Reader - subject-fires-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 24,020 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 3,431 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 86. 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:

tcp, text, fire, city, london, now, eebo, english, god, time, will, one, us, tei, yet, great, texts, early, may, books, many, characters, encoded, therefore, first, tears, made, sins, near, well, much, houses, oxford, let, work, works, day, partnership, xml, shall, phase, england, online, though, encoding, come, within, make, place, see

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are Lamentation, mourning, and woe sighed forth in a sermon preached in the parish-church of St. Martin in the Fields, on the 9th day of September : being the next Lords-day after the dismal fire in the city of London / by Nath. Hardy ..., William the Third, by the grace of God, King of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, Defender of the faith, &c. To all and singular archbishops, bishops, archdeacons, deans, ... and to all other our officers, ministers and subjects whatsoever they be, as well within liberties as without, to whom these presents shall come, greeting Whereas it hath been humbly represented unto us by the petition of William Ebourne, John Ebourne, William Marshall, Thomas Huggins, and Marmaduke Roberts. and above one hundred others sufferers by fire, in the parish of Saint Mary Magdalen Bermondsey, in the county of Surry: ... That on the fourteenth day of June last, there happened near the river of Thames, in the said parish ... a most dreadful and sudden fire, which in the space of a few hours consumed and burnt down to the ground the dwelling-houses of the said poor petitioners, ... Know ye therefore, that of our royal favour ... do give and grant ... full power, license, and authority, to ask, gather, receive ... charitable benevolence ... We have caused these our letters to be made patents, and to continue for one whole year from Michaelmas next, and no longer., and A true and exact prospect of the famous citty of London from S. Marie overs steeple in Southwarke in its flourishing condition before the fire.

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

early english, english books, books online, text creation, creation partnership, page images, characters represented, image sets, tcp schema, represented either, will never, dreadful fire, loving subjects, two phases, notably latin, markup guidelines, therefore chose, institutions providing, errors will, text selection, first edition, will remain, sdata character, texts created, one copy, encoded texts, tcp files, usual project, public domain, basic encoding, textual data, gap elements, structural encoding, characters marked, placeholder characters, later edition, compelling reason, online text, instances will, markup reviewed, tei oxford, characters will, encode one, libraries guidelines, strings within, due credit, readable characters, now take, ascii text, instances per

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are A true and exact prospect of the famous citty of London from S. Marie overs steeple in Southwarke in its flourishing condition before the fire Account concerning the fire and burning of Edenbourgh in Scotland, in a letter from a gentleman there, to his friend in Dublin. : Scotland, February the 12th, 1700., and William the Third, by the grace of God, King of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, Defender of the faith, &c. To all and singular archbishops, bishops, archdeacons, deans, ... and to all other our officers, ministers and subjects whatsoever they be, as well within liberties as without, to whom these presents shall come, greeting Whereas it hath been humbly represented unto us by the petition of William Ebourne, John Ebourne, William Marshall, Thomas Huggins, and Marmaduke Roberts. and above one hundred others sufferers by fire, in the parish of Saint Mary Magdalen Bermondsey, in the county of Surry: ... That on the fourteenth day of June last, there happened near the river of Thames, in the said parish ... a most dreadful and sudden fire, which in the space of a few hours consumed and burnt down to the ground the dwelling-houses of the said poor petitioners, ... Know ye therefore, that of our royal favour ... do give and grant ... full power, license, and authority, to ask, gather, receive ... charitable benevolence ... We have caused these our letters to be made patents, and to continue for one whole year from Michaelmas next, and no longer..

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, london, fire, william, tei, scotland, mr., lord, jerusalem, houses, god, england, city, christ, air

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 text, and A true and perfect narrative of the late dreadful fire which happened at Bridge-Town in the Barbadoes, April 18, 1668 as the same was communicated in two letters from Mr. John Bushel, and Mr. Francis Bond, two eminent merchants there, to Mr. Edward Bushel, citizen and merchant of London : containing the beginning, progress, and event of that dreadful fire, with the estimation of the loss accrewing thereby, as it was delivered to His Majesty by several eminent merchants concerned in that loss. 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, time, fire, texts, characters, tears, sins, books, xml, works, work, day, images, image, reason, place, project, people, page, keying, encoding, elements, eebo, edition, data, others, man, self, hath, houses, thy, heart, eyes, title, instances, account, users, sorrow, sets, selection, schema, purposes, places, markup, guidelines, editions, years, sufferers, mind, hand

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, was, be, have, are, were, said, been, did, had, encoded, do, made, let, being, come, make, see, weep, take, based, sent, represented, think, know, published, given, done, use, marked, created, create, corrected, behold, -, according, wept, give, say, meet, known, go, taken, set, looked, concerning, carried, came, called, call

Proper Nouns

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

tcp, city, london, god, thou, text, s., fire, tei, eebo, oxford, english, england, 〉, ◊, lord, 〈, hath, proquest, phase, partnership, creation, mr., john, christ, st., jerusalem, michigan, william, utf-8, unicode, town, sir, p5, online, ncbel, transcribed, scotland, houses, heaven, bushel, kingdom, yea, mary, king, gods, parish, books, university, universities

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, our, he, their, we, i, his, they, them, her, us, you, thy, my, him, your, themselves, she, its, himself, me, thee, ye, one, yours, theirs, mine, iis

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, great, many, early, such, english, own, same, good, first, available, poor, more, late, true, several, dreadful, whole, greater, general, illegible, full, large, subject, second, sad, next, most, few, particular, little, less, last, famous, usual, original, considerable, wide, possible, goodly, textual, syntactic, sudden, structural, saith, righteous, readable, quality, public, present

not, so, now, then, only, therefore, yet, very, most, more, well, up, much, as, near, still, never, down, out, once, here, thus, no, also, online, too, indeed, there, together, first, even, before, away, usually, above, whatsoever, thereof, over, in, forth, far, thereby, lately, again, variously, sometimes, respectfully, onely, notably, mainly

Next steps

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