Distant Reader - subject-heraldry-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 12 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 601,798 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 50,149 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, esq, lord, first, great, sir, called, may, also, many, time, made, two, now, de, city, arms, three, st, much, knights, knight, name, earl, shall, iohn, second, yet, william, place, kingdom, order, thomas, duke, argent, henry, prince, gules, son, naples, right, england, like, day, part, county, men, will, year

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are Parthenopoeia, or, The history of the most noble and renowned kingdom of Naples with the dominions therunto annexed and the lives of all their kings : the first part / by that famous antiquary Scipio Mazzella ; made English by Mr. Samson Lennard ... ; the second part compil''d by James Howell, Esq., who, besides som [sic] supplements to the first part, drawes on the threed [sic] of the story to these present times, 1654 ; illustrated with the figures of the kings and arms of all the provinces., Analogia honorum, or, A treatise of honour and nobility, according to the laws and customes of England collected out of the most authentick authors, both ancient and modern : in two parts : the first containing honour military, and relateth to war, the second, honour civil, and relateth, and The compleat gentleman fashioning him absolute in the most necessary & commendable qualities concerning minde or bodie that may be required in a noble gentleman. By Henry Peacham, Mr. of Arts sometime of Trinity Coll: in Cambridge..

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

heraldic device, created baronet, sir william, sir thomas, sir iohn, right honourable, eldest son, sir john, old time, runneth near, now called, betwixt three, right hand, sir richard, king henry, vt supra, sir henry, anno praed, sir robert, teste vt, english books, anno dom, early english, sir edward, thousand duckets, king edward, king philip, right honble, many times, books online, now maried, privy councell, king iames, don iohn, de la, haue beene, sir francis, passeth near, esq ebor, lyon rampant, common law, every one, ancient city, king charles, second son, letters patents, two hundred, take place, great master, long time

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are Le blazon or a short and easie way to attain to the art of heraldry The science of herauldry, treated as a part of the civil law, and law of nations wherein reasons are given for its principles, and etymologies for its harder terms., and Honor rediviuus [sic] or An analysis of honor and armory. by Matt: Carter Esq..

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:

lord, tcp, prince, king, england, iohn, henry, earl, duke, crown, court, city, arms, viscount, thomas, sea, order, law, knight, gentleman, french, english, cross, charles, baron, william, title, son, sir, richard, queen, poet, parliament, london, latine, land, kingdom, john, ireland, haue, gules, god, france, father, family, esq, empire, edward, earth, earle

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 The compleat gentleman fashioning him absolute in the most necessary & commendable qualities concerning minde or bodie that may be required in a noble gentleman. By Henry Peacham, Mr. of Arts sometime of Trinity Coll: in Cambridge. 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, name, place, arms, order, day, part, argent, year, men, man, people, others, kings, things, gules, hath, device, son, side, p., title, manner, hand, life, number, country, colours, reason, thing, word, death, times, way, body, places, years, head, dignity, daughter, gold, house, king, cap, kingdom, person, divers, nature, colour, ▪

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, had, have, being, called, said, made, did, do, been, created, make, having, according, say, take, given, see, came, hath, taken, sent, come, put, born, found, bear, brought, named, seen, done, took, give, call, gave, set, haue, let, went, used, held, died, received, descended, learned, built

Proper Nouns

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

king, esq, lord, sir, 〉, ◊, 〈, ●, knight, st., earl, knights, iohn, city, william, de, thomas, duke, prince, henry, naples, england, c., kingdom, baron, earle, river, edward, county, baronet, law, sea, john, kt, l., hath, english, france, church, viscount, richard, honour, e., charles, robert, court, castle, bur, chap, anno

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, it, he, their, they, i, him, them, you, our, her, we, your, my, she, its, himself, us, me, themselves, thy, vp, one, thee, theirs, ours, mine, whereof, herself, ''s, yours, us''d, ha, vnto, custom, †, ye, wil, whosoever, vvith, vnseuer''d, trye, tollit, thēselues, quo, myself, merchand, itself, ie, ia

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, first, such, same, second, much, little, ancient, more, good, old, noble, third, heraldic, excellent, own, most, white, high, honourable, right, common, eldest, famous, proper, certain, fourth, like, sable, true, worthy, new, whole, best, last, full, french, several, saith, general, present, chief, next, large, long, late, rich, better

not, so, then, also, now, very, most, more, only, thus, as, thereof, therefore, well, first, much, there, yet, sometimes, out, onely, up, here, afterward, rather, together, likewise, ever, away, in, down, never, again, far, off, still, forth, long, even, too, otherwise, before, else, all, afterwards, that, therein, no, commonly, is

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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