Distant Reader - subject-greatBritainKingsAndRulers-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 76 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 2,877,945 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 37,867 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 89. 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:

king, one, great, made, kings, england, first, time, may, will, yet, now, parliament, lord, de, many, henry, people, much, men, shall, sir, also, man, two, god, duke, good, law, power, prince, without, well, make, english, france, might, edward, right, though, queen, house, must, earle, crown, never, like, laws, son, part

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are A chronicle of the Kings of England, from the time of the Romans goverment [sic] unto the raigne of our soveraigne lord, King Charles containing all passages of state or church, with all other observations proper for a chronicle / faithfully collected out of authours ancient and moderne, & digested into a new method ; by Sr. R. Baker, Knight., Investigatio jurium antiquorum et rationalium Regni, sive, Monarchiae Angliae in magnis suis conciliis seu Parliamentis. The first tome et regiminis cum lisden in suis principiis optimi, or, a vindication of the government of the kingdom of England under our kings and monarchs, appointed by God, from the opinion and claim of those that without any warrant or ground of law or right reason, the laws of God and man, nature and nations, the records, annals and histories of the kingdom, would have it to be originally derived from the people, or the King to be co-ordinate with his Houses of Peers and Commons in Parliament / per Fabianum Philipps., and State-worthies, or, The states-men and favourites of England since the reformation their prudence and policies, successes and miscarriages, advancements and falls, during the reigns of King Henry VIII, King Edward VI, Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth, King James, King Charles I..

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

king henry, king edward, king richard, sir thomas, sir iohn, queen elizabeth, french king, early english, english books, sir william, books online, king iames, thousand pounds, sir edward, king james, king john, king charles, great britain, sir henry, tells us, every one, creation partnership, text creation, page images, every man, per annum, let us, must needs, sir robert, de la, two hundred, protestant religion, eldest son, sir francis, without issue, queen mary, common law, lords spiritual, th year, hundred thousand, next day, high treason, common people, elder brother, long time, will never, represented either, tcp schema, image sets, characters represented

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are State-worthies, or, The states-men and favourites of England since the reformation their prudence and policies, successes and miscarriages, advancements and falls, during the reigns of King Henry VIII, King Edward VI, Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth, King James, King Charles I. To the Kings most sacred Majesty : the most faithful and unfeigned thanks and resolves of the mayor, sheriffs, aldermen, citizens and commonality of the city of Norwich, in Common Council assembled ..., and To the king''s most excellent majesty. The humble address of the magistrates and council of your city of Glasgow in Scotland, and in the name of the inhabitants..

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:

king, tcp, england, prince, crown, people, church, parliament, government, english, religion, henry, god, laws, duke, lord, law, power, edward, kingdom, house, france, father, son, realm, nation, court, majesty, kingdome, french, act, pope, lords, land, commons, succession, statute, state, royal, protestant, ireland, earl, city, charles, authority, world, richard, queen, popish, army

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 king, and Restauranda, or, The necessity of publick repairs, by setling of a certain and royal yearly revenue for the king or the way to a well-being for the king and his people, proposed by the establishing of a fitting reveue for him, and enacting some necessary and wholesome laws for the people. 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, kings, men, people, man, king, power, part, others, day, reason, place, death, things, way, years, nothing, thing, title, name, none, t, person, year, times, subjects, life, religion, words, end, hath, self, matter, brother, manner, order, p., hand, ad, right, succession, son, one, divers, hands, money, peace, daughter, yeare, cause

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:

was, be, is, had, were, have, are, being, made, did, said, been, do, make, sent, called, take, put, came, having, say, done, come, taken, see, set, give, brought, given, let, has, according, gave, found, thought, left, granted, hath, know, think, died, took, kept, find, went, am, held, created, caused, used

Proper Nouns

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

king, england, lord, parliament, ●, henry, sir, god, duke, 〉, prince, de, france, ◊, law, 〈, edward, earle, english, queen, crown, c., lords, church, earl, london, house, william, iohn, bishop, commons, richard, princes, l., laws, government, thomas, hath, john, kingdom, son, court, e., kings, father, queene, scotland, pope, robert, majesty

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, he, it, their, they, him, them, i, our, her, we, you, himself, she, my, your, themselves, us, me, its, thy, thee, one, theirs, ''em, ours, vp, mine, yours, hers, ye, whereof, l, herself, em, s, itself, belf, ''s, u, whosoever, vnto, non, hee, au, yeere, ian, dy''d, ●, hic

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, own, first, same, good, more, much, common, last, little, whole, second, true, most, next, new, very, old, third, present, best, better, late, french, greater, several, former, long, greatest, high, like, certain, least, particular, english, saith, ancient, fourth, few, free, small, right, full, large, eldest, able, private

not, so, then, now, as, also, more, only, well, most, very, never, up, yet, much, first, too, there, out, therefore, ever, here, onely, before, thereof, thus, even, rather, in, long, away, again, together, afterwards, indeed, once, far, still, off, no, down, over, all, otherwise, presently, often, afterward, forth, just, especially

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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