Distant Reader - subject-incarnation-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 8 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 328,671 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 41,083 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 94. 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:

god, man, will, christ, us, one, yet, must, world, also, spirit, gods, nature, life, may, first, fire, now, word, therefore, great, light, made, death, shall, reason, viz, might, without, things, self, love, divine, men, flesh, image, nothing, earthly, say, adam, son, much, selfe, eternal, power, become, st, make, body, substance

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are The fifth book of the authour, in three parts the first, Of the becoming man or incarnation of Jesus Christ, the Sonne of God, that is, concerning the Virgin Mary ... and how the Eternal word is become man : the second part is of Christ''s suffering, dying, death, and resurrection ... : the third part is of The tree of Christian faith ... / written through the inspiration of the Holy Ghost, by Jacob Behme, the Teutonick philosopher ..., The two great mysteries of Christian religion the ineffable Trinity, [the] vvonderful incarnation, explicated to the satisfaction of mans own naturall reason, and according to the grounds of philosophy / by G. G. G., and Sermons concerning the divinity and incarnation of our blessed Saviour preached in the Church of St. Lawrence Jewry by John, late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury..

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

roman non, fierce wrath, jesus christ, made flesh, becoming man, holy spirit, every one, three principles, divine substantiality, holy ghost, gods love, become man, gods spirit, became man, let us, eternal life, holy trinity, heavenly substantiality, christian religion, old adam, new testament, one person, divine nature, three persons, tells us, saint john, gods anger, one god, early english, christian faith, english books, must needs, fierce wrathful, becometh generated, earthly source, second principle, first principle, human nature, books online, natural reason, called god, god will, one another, virgin mary, whole world, every thing, like manner, christ jesus, take away, noble image

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are A vindication of the sermons of His Grace John Archbishop of Canterbury concerning the divinity and incarnation of our B. Saviour : and of the Lord Bishop of Worcester''s sermon on the mysteries of the Christian faith, from the exceptions of a late book, entituled, Considerations on the explications of the doctrine of the Trinity : to which is annexed, a letter from the Lord Bishop of Sarum to the author of the said vindication, on the same subject. Immanuel, or, The mystery of the incarnation of the son of God unfolded by James Archbishop of Armagh., and Sermons concerning the divinity and incarnation of our blessed Saviour preached in the Church of St. Lawrence Jewry by John, late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury..

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:

god, christ, spirit, son, scripture, world, man, lord, john, church, trinity, saviour, roman, reason, love, light, life, gospel, fire, doctrine, apostle, anger, word, sun, substance, st., sins, saint, sacrifice, religion, persons, non, nature, mystery, messias, law, jews, incarnation, imagination, image, holy, grace, gods, flesh, father, faith, eternall, eternal, earthly, divine

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 god, and An apology for writing against Socinians, in defence of the doctrines of the Holy Trinity and incarnation in answer to a late earnest and compassionate suit for forbearance to the learned writers of some controversies at present / by William Sherlock ... 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?":

man, world, viz, things, death, self, reason, nature, fire, life, nothing, hath, word, source, light, time, way, men, thing, quality, flesh, power, mystery, author, body, beginning, words, selfe, will, scripture, person, substance, knowledge, manner, image, part, understanding, substantiality, soul, love, eternity, wrath, spirit, sin, end, glory, p., place, one, 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:

is, be, was, have, are, were, had, did, made, do, been, being, say, become, make, said, know, according, understand, see, come, hath, became, give, let, concerning, take, given, done, called, born, created, am, generated, believe, consider, has, go, think, selfe, put, seeing, came, note, appear, speak, find, known, set, stand

Proper Nouns

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

god, christ, man, gods, spirit, world, hath, thou, nature, adam, john, 〉, word, life, son, ◊, st., lord, 〈, heaven, father, fire, holy, earthly, saviour, church, divine, love, trinity, virgin, eternal, earth, incarnation, image, principle, faith, c., jesus, anger, center, christs, deity, new, gospel, light, kingdom, essence, doctrine, devil, grace

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, he, his, i, we, our, him, they, us, their, them, himself, my, you, its, me, her, thy, your, themselves, she, thee, theirs, one, mine, †, ye, ours, u, itself, myself, s, ourselves, thou, ‖, yours, wil, whereof, vnto, us''d, tollit, th, si, quae, ne, g, 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, own, great, first, same, such, true, more, good, willing, many, non, -, roman, divine, whole, fierce, right, eternal, outward, infinite, much, last, earthly, heavenly, second, natural, greater, necessary, like, several, dead, new, little, able, very, free, light, high, greatest, strange, only, perfect, least, full, best, better, saith, pure, plain

not, so, then, also, thus, now, therefore, yet, very, up, only, more, as, here, again, most, onely, forth, indeed, first, much, well, together, out, that, is, ever, even, †, there, never, down, else, far, all, likewise, away, therein, no, still, whatsoever, once, in, further, secondly, rather, continually, too, thereof, surely

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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