Distant Reader - subject-germany-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 17 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 204,948 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 12,055 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 88. 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:

one, great, king, many, men, towne, will, two, first, may, time, day, also, english, now, duke, made, much, god, three, city, like, empire, anno, yet, text, shall, army, germany, count, wee, tcp, house, came, side, good, emperour, man, place, generall, called, make, every, next, another, taken, princes, prince, well, hee

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are An accurate description of the United Netherlands, and of the most considerable parts of Germany, Sweden, & Denmark containing a succinct account of what is most remarkable in these countries, and necessary instructions for travellers : together with an exact relation of the entertainment of His Most Sacred Majesty King William at the Hague / written by an English gentleman., The invasions of Germanie with all the civill, and bloody warres therin, since the first beginning of them in anno 1618 and continued to this present yeare 1638 : wherein are described the severall battles, encounters, conflicts, and assaults, of cities, townes, and castles ... with a new and exact map of Germany ... : together with the progresse of every army, marked with severall markes or lines, with the pictures of the chiefe commanders on both sides / faithfully collected out of good and credible originalls by a Gentleman well deserving that hath suffered much in those warres., and The vvarnings of Germany By wonderfull signes, and strange prodigies seene in divers parts of that countrey of Germany, betweene the yeare 1618. and 1638. Together with a briefe relation of the miserable events which ensued. All faithfully collected out of credible High Dutch chronicles, and other histories by L. Brinckmair Captaine. As also a learned and godly sermon preached before the lords the States at Norrimberg. Anno 1638..

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

english books, early english, next day, books online, creation partnership, text creation, page images, next morning, english miles, taken prisoners, dutch miles, represented either, image sets, characters represented, tcp schema, left side, early works, common souldiers, roman empire, one another, every one, every day, count palatin, duke bernhard, generall tilly, imperiall generall, swedish generall, many times, saxon weimar, without asking, creative commons, iv tiff, markup reviewed, images scanned, proquest page, pfs batch, institutions providing, bit group, swedish colonell, tiff page, image set, financial support, providing financial, tcp assigned, right side, online text, asking permission, work described, cast anchor, free cities

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are His Imperial Majesty''s letter to the Pope wherein is offered his reasons why he cannot accept of any offers of peace with France / translated from the original. Reasons humbly offered for encouraging His Majesties natural born subjects to export the woollen manufactures of this realm to Germany, and Articles of peace, ratiffied [sic] and confirmed between the king of Denmark, and the House of Lunenburgh. Licensed, October the 17th. 1693.

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, god, english, towne, house, emperour, city, princes, man, lord, germany, empire, elector, country, count, trade, prince, imperiall, imperialists, haue, england, duke, church, army, anno, war, transylvania, swedish, states, souldiers, saxony, roman, river, rhine, rhin, religion, prodigies, prague, pope, people, nations, morning, men, marquis, marquesse, majesty, like, kingdome, imperial

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 great, and The vvarnings of Germany By wonderfull signes, and strange prodigies seene in divers parts of that countrey of Germany, betweene the yeare 1618. and 1638. Together with a briefe relation of the miserable events which ensued. All faithfully collected out of credible High Dutch chronicles, and other histories by L. Brinckmair Captaine. As also a learned and godly sermon preached before the lords the States at Norrimberg. Anno 1638. 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, men, day, side, place, man, part, text, way, things, others, people, hath, slaine, night, rest, places, end, towne, miles, country, texts, prisoners, works, times, hand, hee, thence, money, morning, empire, peace, characters, images, number, ▪, reason, houses, house, thing, souldiers, horse, head, foure, books, manner, kings, excellence, work, parts

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, are, were, have, had, being, made, did, came, been, called, make, having, taken, do, said, went, come, take, sent, put, see, set, tooke, hath, brought, according, found, say, give, cut, lay, done, encoded, left, let, know, given, passing, fell, kept, returned, go, pay, lost, bring, built, haue

Proper Nouns

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

king, towne, duke, god, germany, count, army, city, emperour, tcp, wee, generall, english, prince, hath, anno, princes, empire, house, colonell, england, imperiall, lord, elector, court, 〉, imperialists, church, states, majesty, ◊, amsterdam, 〈, bohemia, london, france, castle, c., sweden, bishop, text, horse, ●, tei, french, eebo, saxony, downe, excellency, men

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, their, they, it, i, he, them, him, you, our, we, her, your, my, us, she, me, themselves, himself, its, thy, thee, one, vp, ours, theirs, mine, herself, us''d, yours, hers, whereof, vvith, terrifye, severall, pappenheim, hee, em, ''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, great, many, such, same, first, good, next, more, much, most, little, high, english, last, own, large, old, whole, second, early, new, small, several, true, long, third, strong, common, few, dead, present, swedish, late, bloody, dutch, strange, right, full, french, particular, best, rich, greater, available, able, left, general, like, greatest

not, so, then, also, now, very, there, as, out, up, more, well, first, together, most, here, therefore, in, only, much, away, off, yet, thus, long, likewise, about, neere, almost, onely, never, still, before, ever, all, over, afterwards, presently, too, even, once, forth, rather, thereof, especially, else, sometimes, hence, further, down

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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