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Eric Lease Morgan Number of items in the collection; 'How big is my corpus?' ---------------------------------------------------------- 4 Average length of all items measured in words; "More or less, how big is each item?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 14514 Average readability score of all items (0 = difficult; 100 = easy) ------------------------------------------------------------------ 77 Top 50 statistically significant keywords; "What is my collection about?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4 trench 3 enemy 2 fire 1 time 1 soldier 1 man 1 illustration 1 gallery 1 attack 1 artillery 1 advance 1 France 1 FIGURE 1 England Top 50 lemmatized nouns; "What is discussed?" --------------------------------------------- 554 trench 431 man 290 enemy 229 line 188 fire 186 officer 165 company 161 time 159 attack 122 commander 118 work 110 duty 107 gun 105 battalion 103 order 102 rifle 95 gas 87 day 86 sentry 85 wire 84 soldier 84 party 83 position 83 night 83 case 83 artillery 78 post 75 patrol 72 foot 71 shell 71 section 69 hour 68 parapet 65 machine 61 bomb 60 ammunition 59 front 58 troop 58 equipment 58 advance 57 water 57 use 57 part 57 number 56 platoon 56 dugout 53 ground 53 defense 52 army 50 point Top 50 proper nouns; "What are the names of persons or places?" -------------------------------------------------------------- 1305 _ 87 C. 84 O. 58 N. 47 b 45 H. 39 c 32 d 28 e 27 brigade 26 S. 25 f 25 Q. 24 France 19 g 19 TRENCH 18 FIGURE 17 h 17 Germans 17 England 16 TRENCHES 15 General 14 Trench 14 Infantry 13 j 13 WAR 13 E. 11 k 11 iii 11 R. 10 ii 10 Artillery 9 Army 8 Warfare 8 Vermorel 8 P. 8 Fig 8 Captain 7 l 7 headquarters 7 GAS 7 G. 7 French 7 Combat 7 CHAPTER 7 Attack 6 Time 6 Os 6 I. 6 Hanguillart Top 50 personal pronouns nouns; "To whom are things referred?" ------------------------------------------------------------- 475 it 335 they 204 them 162 we 153 he 140 i 71 him 46 you 32 us 29 themselves 15 itself 13 himself 8 me 7 one 5 yourself 3 she 3 myself 3 her 1 mine 1 herself 1 79.--why 1 74.--how 1 60.--how Top 50 lemmatized verbs; "What do things do?" --------------------------------------------- 3054 be 477 have 201 do 197 make 166 take 155 keep 119 give 112 use 100 carry 95 fire 80 work 77 get 74 send 74 see 67 come 60 find 57 go 57 follow 51 know 47 place 43 provide 42 throw 40 bring 39 stand 39 cover 38 wear 37 report 37 relieve 35 become 34 leave 33 require 33 hear 32 put 32 post 32 need 31 learn 31 hold 30 remain 30 protect 30 fall 30 allow 29 dig 28 inspect 28 call 28 avoid 26 say 26 draw 25 train 25 show 25 advance Top 50 lemmatized adjectives and adverbs; "How are things described?" --------------------------------------------------------------------- 275 not 129 up 120 out 110 as 96 possible 96 good 89 first 84 other 81 very 79 then 76 well 73 many 72 only 63 great 63 always 61 small 61 front 57 more 57 also 56 own 55 same 54 over 54 necessary 49 down 47 so 47 little 45 such 45 soon 45 most 42 once 42 much 42 long 40 responsible 40 few 39 too 39 large 39 high 39 back 39 able 37 off 37 never 37 even 35 about 34 least 33 special 33 certain 32 usually 31 sometimes 30 sufficient 30 close Top 50 lemmatized superlative adjectives; "How are things described to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 39 good 26 least 15 great 13 near 12 most 6 safe 3 short 3 quick 3 close 2 large 2 high 2 heavy 2 bad 2 Most 1 sure 1 strict 1 small 1 slight 1 simple 1 sane 1 sad 1 minute 1 lazy 1 late 1 furth 1 full 1 easy 1 early 1 costly 1 choice Top 50 lemmatized superlative adverbs; "How do things do to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 33 most 8 least 1 near Top 50 Internet domains; "What Webbed places are alluded to in this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 www.gutenberg.org 2 archive.org Top 50 URLs; "What is hyperlinked from this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------- 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/44370/44370-h/44370-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/44370/44370-h.zip 1 http://archive.org/details/handywarguidefor00hang 1 http://archive.org Top 50 email addresses; "Who are you gonna call?" ------------------------------------------------- Top 50 positive assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-noun?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5 commander is responsible 3 commanders are responsible 2 enemy does deployment 2 enemy sends up 2 men are very 2 night is dark 2 o. coming off 2 officer is responsible 2 parties make as 2 sentries are alert 1 artillery bring up 1 artillery is active 1 artillery is also 1 attack carried out 1 attack is active 1 attack is necessary 1 attack is not 1 attack is then 1 attacks come only 1 attacks had almost 1 c. has clearly 1 cases being light 1 cases were frequent 1 company is complete 1 company is not 1 days go by 1 days is sufficient 1 enemy did not 1 enemy fires blank 1 enemy get hold 1 enemy is able 1 enemy is determined 1 enemy is fond 1 enemy is likely 1 enemy is not 1 enemy knows perfectly 1 enemy was about 1 enemy working underground 1 fire is easily 1 fire is more 1 fire is usually 1 gas is about 1 gas is clear 1 gas is liquid 1 gun firing bomb 1 gun is undoubtedly 1 guns are always 1 guns do not 1 guns fire directly 1 line is stable Top 50 negative assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-no|not-noun?" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 officers are not slow 1 trenches is not very A rudimentary bibliography -------------------------- id = 53126 author = Army War College (U.S.) title = Specimens of British Trench Orders date = keywords = trench summary = (_c_) Parties at work between the front-line and reserve trenches may LOG BOOKS AND TRENCH STORE BOOKS.=--(_a_) Each company commander (_c_) Commanding officers are personally responsible that no trench his rifle clean and in working order whilst in the trenches. (_g_) On taking over a line of trenches a company commander will (_i_) Within 24 hours of taking over a new line of trenches a company (_j_) Before handing over trenches, officers commanding companies firing line the company commander will arrange for his officers to take Whenever men stand to arms company commanders will order the parapet to on fixed lines covering the enemy''s trenches, in order to inflict be working on his trenches or wire, the company commander will give without our trench line; and specially organized parties will be kept line of trenches, the commanding officer, adjutant, and company rifles of men in support reserve trenches or dugouts may be placed in id = 59420 author = Army War College (U.S.) title = Use of Mines in Trench Warfare (From the French School of St. Cyr) date = keywords = enemy; gallery; trench summary = The following notes on Use of Mines in Trench Warfare are published by the enemy, and the junction points of the communicating trenches of the first-line trenches should disclose the presence of enemy Four or five meters of enemy trench without loopholes, but with A miner''s working relief reaches the gallery, each man carrying a noise of a truck moving on the rails, men working near a gallery the entrances to troublesome galleries in the trench attacked. nearest to the enemy trench are selected for the listening posts. gallery the miner works kneeling. hear for a distance of 100 meters when the enemy trench is only 40 prevent the enemy working underground. _Barrage trench for miners._--If the enemy passes in spite of communication trench about 20 meters in the rear of the first line, the section of the enemy''s trench to be occupied and the position of of enemy trench.] id = 44370 author = Hanguillart, André Godefroy Lionel title = Handy War Guide for My Company: Handy Company Commander''s Guide date = keywords = advance; artillery; attack; enemy; fire; trench summary = Have all the men locate the enemy trench as they come trenches in case the enemy should capture the fire attack, especially if the trenches are in wooded terrain and there are from firing unless enemy is sighted out of his trenches. If enemy''s artillery fires upon trenches (Cf. par. If some of the enemy reach the trench, dispose of them with the bayonet. trench and organize it rapidly against the enemy, making it face about infantry attack, the enemy may make use of his artillery. enemy''s attack, to silence his artillery, to damage his defences or to trenches, artillery observation posts should be provided in the fire Advance in line of section, single or double file, keeping as closed up Advance in line of section, single or double file, keeping as closed up To advance the firing line in attack, all means are good: by section, id = 44734 author = Vickers, Leslie title = Training for the Trenches A Practical Handbook Based upon Personal Experience During the First Two Years of the War in France date = keywords = England; FIGURE; France; enemy; fire; illustration; man; soldier; time; trench summary = was summer time and the new troops were placed in tents in open fields. liberal fatigue work to the men who are guilty of messing up the lines, time, the service to the men of meat that was diseased. a man to fire his rifle from beneath the parapet of the trench by means In each trench there must be dugouts for the men to sleep in. in large parties, the listening post men return to the trenches and the men if the enemy is determined to thoroughly shell the line, and content to allow men to remain in their trenches for a while without smoke arising from the trenches where the men were cooking was usually men are in the firing trench. the men in the trenches is not very great. In the trenches it was sometimes necessary to move about the few men