Distant Reader - subject-hell-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 15 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 275,464 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 18,364 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 95. 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:

shall, god, will, hell, fire, may, one, life, lord, christ, great, man, death, world, yet, now, men, time, come, say, good, us, soul, things, place, many, therefore, heaven, much, like, doth, also, never, ever, must, made, make, day, sin, first, without, see, though, earth, wicked, word, let, might, saith, sins

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are Sighs from hell, or, The groans of a damned soul discovering from the 16th of Luke the lamentable state of the damned : and may fitly serve as a warning-word to sinners, both old and young, by faith in Jesus Christ, to avoid the same place of torment : with a discovery of the usefulness of the Scriptures as our safe conduct for avoiding the torments of hell / by John Bunyan., Fire and brimstone from heaven, from earth, in hell, or, Three discourses I. Concerning the burning of Sodom and Gomorrah formerly, II. Concerning the burning of Æetna, or Mount Gibel more lately, III. Concerning the burning of the wicked eternally, with fire and brimstone / by Thomas Vincent ..., and A discourse of the torments of hell The foundation and pillars thereof discovered, searched, shaken and removed. With many infallible proofs, that there is not to be a punishment after this life for any to endure that shall never end. By S. Richardson..

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

jesus christ, english books, early english, books online, lord jesus, almightie god, god will, second death, page images, text creation, shall bee, creation partnership, shall never, holy ghost, good things, line read, good works, shall see, fathers house, ten thousand, eternal life, rich man, let us, holy spirit, lord will, must needs, will never, wicked men, wicked shall, may see, set forth, hell fire, poor souls, everlasting fire, tcp schema, know whether, image sets, represented either, characters represented, lord god, god shall, page line, ye shall, god doth, every one, will make, early works, hold forth, father abraham, send lazarus

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are Sighs from hell, or, The groans of a damned soul discovering from the 16th of Luke the lamentable state of the damned : and may fitly serve as a warning-word to sinners, both old and young, by faith in Jesus Christ, to avoid the same place of torment : with a discovery of the usefulness of the Scriptures as our safe conduct for avoiding the torments of hell / by John Bunyan. An explication of the article katēlthen eis haidoū of our Lordes soules going from his body to paradise; touched by the Greek, generally haidou, the vvorld of the soules; termed Hel by the old Saxon, & by all our translations; vvith a defense of the Q. of Englands religion: to, & against the Archb. of Canterbury: vvho is blamed for turning the Q auctority against her ovvne faith. Sundry epistles are prefixed and affixed. by H. Br., and Hell''s everlasting flames avoided, and heaven''s eternal felicities injoyed containing the penitent sinner''s sad lamentation for the deplorableness of his impious life ... : also holy preparations to a worthy receiving of the Lord''s Supper ... / by John Hayward, D.D..

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:

hell, god, tcp, lord, world, thy, fire, christ, soul, man, earth, thou, spirit, soule, mat, life, lady, hades, greek, body, bee, trade, torment, tophet, thee, souls, sodomits, sodom, sins, sheol, sea, scriptures, scripture, saints, rom, psal, prophets, prayer, pluto, pains, mountain, lot, like, lazarus, law, kingdom, king, judge, joh, jesus

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 Hells destruction. By the Lady Eleanor Douglas 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?":

fire, life, death, man, time, men, things, place, day, world, soul, hell, sin, sins, self, word, torments, thing, body, punishment, thy, way, heart, others, doth, words, nothing, hath, end, faith, text, part, glory, souls, torment, state, ▪, wrath, thee, works, scriptures, light, reason, truth, scripture, flames, eyes, mercy, t, none

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, was, were, do, had, did, come, say, been, being, made, make, see, said, let, take, think, know, give, go, set, live, believe, read, consider, am, cast, done, die, hath, find, found, tormented, put, according, tell, send, came, called, suffer, fall, speak, look, hear, bee, taken, ''s

Proper Nouns

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

〉, ◊, 〈, god, thou, hell, lord, christ, heaven, fire, hath, world, ●, earth, jesus, tcp, gods, law, hast, spirit, c., sodom, yea, angels, ye, tophet, holy, father, abraham, soul, gospel, sheol, brimstone, devil, rom, life, cor, bee, luke, text, mat, moses, haue, city, word, rev., son, lazarus, heauen, psal

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, they, i, his, their, he, them, you, my, thy, him, your, our, me, we, us, thee, her, themselves, himself, its, she, ''em, one, ye, mine, theirs, thou, ours, hel, ''s, yours, vp, us''d, o, ●, Θεο̂υ, yourself, yf, yee, y, wil, whereof, vvhat, thinketh, shou''d, ourselves, ob, hers, hee

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?"

great, such, many, other, good, more, same, wicked, eternal, much, own, first, full, everlasting, true, little, whole, poor, least, second, high, old, dead, last, most, glorious, able, greater, better, rich, sure, holy, greatest, saith, early, terrible, very, guilty, dreadful, large, former, english, miserable, horrible, few, sweet, short, sad, infinite, wise

not, so, then, now, more, therefore, also, never, ever, up, here, most, as, thus, out, there, yet, very, forth, only, even, much, down, again, first, far, in, away, together, well, still, too, long, all, rather, onely, that, off, thereof, once, indeed, no, is, on, just, secondly, before, else, especially, sometimes

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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