Distant Reader - subject-game-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 235,496 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 33,642 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:

will, may, must, one, take, shall, first, two, let, make, time, give, good, much, horse, three, hawk, great, game, water, well, till, best, like, four, little, way, long, hounds, every, either, therefore, come, place, now, yet, put, without, called, day, ground, find, play, fish, fly, made, hand, many, next, manner

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are The gentleman''s recreation in four parts, viz. hunting, hawking, fowling, fishing : wherein these generous exercises are largely treated of, and the terms of art for hunting and hawking more amply enlarged than heretofore : whereto is prefixt a large sculpture, giving easie directions for blowing the horn, and other sculptures inserted proper to each recreation : with an abstract at the end of each subject of such laws as relate to the same., The compleat gamester, or, Instructions how to play at billiards, trucks, bowls, and chess together with all manner of usual and most gentile games either on cards or dice : to which is added the arts and mysteries of riding, racing, archery, and cock-fighting., and Funebria floræ the downfall of May-games: wherein is set forth the rudeness, prophaneness, stealing, drinking, fighting, dancing, whoring, mis-rule, mis-spence of precious time, contempt of God, and godly magistrates, ministers and people, which oppose the rascality and rout, in this their open prophanenesse, and heathenish customs. Occasioned by the generall complaint of the rudenesse of people in this kind, in this interval of settlement. Here you have twenty arguments against these prophane sports, and all the cavills made by the belialists for the time refelled and answered. Together with an addition of some verses in the cloze, for the delight of the ingenious reader. By Tho. Hall, B.D. and pastor of Kings-norton..

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

will make, will find, may take, every one, may know, early english, english books, take notice, will take, may make, books online, latter end, shall give, will never, must take, two dice, first place, like manner, one another, will prove, young ones, none shall, four times, must make, four days, make use, years old, every day, may see, several sorts, text creation, creation partnership, first throw, will come, right hand, think fit, next place, shall think, two sorts, will run, several ways, best way, one throw, page images, take away, let us, will give, equal hazard, may play, loseth one

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are Die Iovis 18 Februarii 1646. Whereas provision is made by the statutes of this realme for the perservation [sic] of game in this kingdome, ... An act to prevent the killing of deer., and Whereas His Majesty hath been certainly informed of the killing and destroying of the game in and about his honour of Hampton-Court ....

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, king, game, wings, wind, wee, water, trumps, train, text, tail, table, sun, stake, rook, river, queen, pawn, partridge, parliament, nets, net, morning, man, lure, lord, line, legs, laws, land, hunting, hounds, horse, hook, hee, head, hazard, hawk, hart, hare, grey, goshawk, god, gamesters, games, fox, fowl, forest, flora, fist

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 Funebria floræ the downfall of May-games: wherein is set forth the rudeness, prophaneness, stealing, drinking, fighting, dancing, whoring, mis-rule, mis-spence of precious time, contempt of God, and godly magistrates, ministers and people, which oppose the rascality and rout, in this their open prophanenesse, and heathenish customs. Occasioned by the generall complaint of the rudenesse of people in this kind, in this interval of settlement. Here you have twenty arguments against these prophane sports, and all the cavills made by the belialists for the time refelled and answered. Together with an addition of some verses in the cloze, for the delight of the ingenious reader. By Tho. Hall, B.D. and pastor of Kings-norton. 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, horse, way, place, day, manner, hand, ground, end, water, fish, men, man, body, hath, self, year, side, others, times, part, days, night, thing, reason, t, hounds, head, horses, one, nothing, places, hunting, morning, wind, nature, net, ways, art, advantage, b, foot, use, sorts, meat, feet, rest, dogs, none, p.

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, have, take, let, make, do, being, give, having, come, put, called, was, find, made, were, keep, go, feed, hath, taken, know, see, been, according, play, set, run, say, fly, done, had, observe, cast, taking, found, use, stand, think, draw, has, get, call, kill, means, throw, making, lie

Proper Nouns

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

hawk, game, c., hounds, king, hart, water, cards, fowl, hare, hath, head, hawks, horse, may, dog, lord, dice, cock, river, ace, faulcon, grey, god, forest, dogs, fox, bird, lure, tcp, england, deer, sun, wee, chase, hunting, games, earth, pawn, hook, buck, fist, queen, hound, fly, boar, hazard, chap, partridge, land

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?"

you, it, his, he, they, your, her, them, him, their, i, she, my, we, our, themselves, us, himself, its, me, one, yours, thy, theirs, thee, mine, l, whereof, us''d, unlodg''d, turn''d, ours, itself, inn, horsemen, himfelf, hey, herself, hay, em, clog''d, bs, a+b, ''s, ''em

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, good, first, great, best, little, more, many, small, same, much, own, old, next, young, better, several, long, large, strong, high, most, last, white, sure, black, like, second, full, third, former, excellent, short, clean, worth, true, hot, equal, cold, least, greater, hard, general, warm, dry, clear, whole, right, red

not, then, so, very, up, as, out, well, more, first, therefore, now, thus, in, much, too, together, again, down, most, here, never, off, also, only, onely, sometimes, long, over, away, there, likewise, often, ever, before, thereof, still, yet, especially, commonly, always, that, soon, once, else, far, about, is, on, otherwise

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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