Distant Reader - subject-jesusChrist-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 130 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 8,325,639 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 64,043 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:

god, christ, xml, id, will, pos, lemma, shall, us, man, one, may, yet, things, lord, now, men, first, must, made, death, world, life, great, therefore, faith, also, doth, good, spirit, love, make, holy, law, much, without, word, see, pc, might, nature, many, glory, time, power, come, church, though, gods, grace

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are The suruey of Christs sufferings for mans redemption and of his descent to Hades or Hel for our deliuerance: by Thomas Bilson Bishop of Winchester. The contents whereof may be seene in certaine resolutions before the booke, in the titles ouer the pages, and in a table made to that end. Perused and allowed by publike authoritie., A continuation of the exposition of the Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Hebrews viz, on the sixth, seventh, eight, ninth, and tenth chapters : wherein together with the explication of the text and context, the priesthood of Christ ... are declared, explained and confirmed : as also, the pleas of the Jews for the continuance and perpetuity of their legal worship, with the doctrine of the principal writers of the Socinians about these things, are examined and disproved / by J. Owen ..., and Svveet and soule-perswading inducements leading unto Christ. Deduced, 1. From the consideration of mans misery, emptinesse, basenesse, and dishonour without Christ. 2. From the meditation of the comforts attending the soules receiving of Christ. 3. From the apprehension of the joy and excellency of Christs living in man: the whole singularly sweetning the meditation of Christ to the soule of man. By Alexander Grosse, minister of Christ..

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

pc xml, pos acp, jesus christ, holy ghost, roman non, let us, unit sentence, rendition hi, high priest, pos po, po xml, lord jesus, nn xml, pos av, every one, lord christ, right hand, cs xml, pos vvn, vvn xml, pos vvi, vvi xml, vvd xml, pos vvd, cc xml, god will, humane nature, pos cc, av xml, pos crq, old testament, new testament, every man, must needs, christ jesus, english books, early english, tells us, shall see, shall come, two things, iesus christ, holy spirit, divine nature, books online, one another, pos vvb, vvb xml, good things, every thing

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are Christ''s Passion A brief remembrancer, or, The right improvement of Christ''s birth-day., and A sermon concerning the sacrifice and satisfaction of Christ. preached before the Queen at Whitehall, April 9., 1693..

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, lord, church, spirit, father, law, tcp, son, saviour, world, man, gospel, scripture, king, jesus, life, faith, psal, prophet, holy, grace, ghost, love, apostle, cor, iesus, gods, covenant, christian, saints, angels, roman, death, temple, soul, sauiour, satan, nature, earth, disciples, crosse, word, sonne, jews, body, sacrifice, priest, power, person

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 Mount-Orgueil: or Divine and profitable meditations raised from the contemplation of these three leaves of natures volume, 1. Rockes, 2. Seas, 3. Gardens, digested into three distinct poems. To which is prefixed, a poeticall description, of Mount-Orgueil Castle in the Isle of Jersy. By VVilliam Prynne, late exile, and close prisoner in the sayd Castle. A poem of The soules complaint against the body; and Comfortable cordialls against the discomforts of imprisonment, &c. are hereto annexed. 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?":

xml, man, things, men, death, life, time, world, words, way, thing, place, power, sin, faith, glory, word, nature, nothing, day, body, heart, people, soule, self, love, reason, others, part, person, pc, hath, end, name, light, grace, doth, blood, p., flesh, hand, sense, earth, scripture, sinne, truth, p, work, none, sins

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, are, have, were, had, did, made, do, being, make, see, come, say, said, been, let, take, know, give, called, done, according, hath, came, put, given, set, am, concerning, doth, taken, having, find, brought, think, makes, bring, go, ''s, has, cast, believe, found, live, consider, suffer, blessed, 〈

Proper Nouns

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

〉, ◊, 〈, god, christ, id="a02262, w, thou, lord, law, church, jesus, father, hath, spirit, heaven, gods, christs, c., son, holy, gospel, saviour, world, covenant, faith, doe, grace, ●, pos="acp, s., man, apostle, angels, satan, cor, king, rom, moses, divine, chap, hell, word, nature, john, love, iesus, jews, pos="d, paul

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, they, him, our, their, we, them, i, you, us, my, thy, your, me, himself, her, its, themselves, thee, she, ours, mine, theirs, one, ''em, ye, vp, yours, ourselves, itself, thyself, myself, ''s, vnto, elias, thou, herself, whereof, u, em, yee, s, l, hers, hee, lemma="throw, †, us''d

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, such, great, own, many, same, good, first, more, true, whole, much, holy, full, new, little, last, dead, old, second, high, present, pos="n1, greater, glorious, most, saith, least, non, able, very, roman, better, -, common, best, former, proper, spiritual, right, free, wicked, particular, perfect, eternal, necessary, greatest, divine, doth, general

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