Distant Reader - subject-lancashirePlot-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 6 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 162,716 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 27,119 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 91. 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:

mr, sir, king, one, will, lord, cook, may, time, man, made, us, now, make, law, well, england, men, might, yet, government, without, goodman, first, much, either, great, persons, evidence, never, say, two, jury, shall, must, nation, prince, cl, arr, many, person, prisoner, people, design, thing, know, witnesses, case, porter, john

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are The arraignment, tryal, and condemnation of Peter Cooke, Gent. for high-treason, in endeavouring to procure forces from France to invade this kingdom, and conspiring to levy war in this realm for assisting and abetting the said invasion, in order to the deposing of His sacred Majesty, King William, and restoring the late King Who upon full evidence was found guilty at the Sessions-House in the Old-Baily, on Wednesday the 13th of May, 1696. And received sentence the same day. With the learned arguments both of the King''s and prisoner''s council upon the new Act of Parliament for regulating tryals in cases of treason. Perused by the Lord Chief Justice Treby, and the council present at the tryal., A letter to Mr. Secretary Trenchard discovering a conspiracy against the laws and ancient constitution of England : with reflections on the present pretended plot., and The history of the late conspiracy against the king and the nation with a particular account of the Lancashire Plot, and all the other attempts and machinations of the disaffected party since His Majesty''s accession to the throne / extracted out of the original informations of the witnesses and other authentick papers..

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

sir john, king james, went away, late king, john friend, french king, sir william, king iames, english books, lord montgomery, early english, mean time, high treason, king william, books online, peter cook, grand jury, king charles, aylesbury went, william parkyns, ten pound, creation partnership, text creation, page images, think fit, much less, captain porter, lord preston, take away, see mr, present government, new pannel, protestant religion, sir george, made use, every one, aaron smith, whole nation, venire facias, george barclay, john fenwick, will appear, will never, arbitrary power, will find, every man, lord chief, image sets, second meeting, represented either

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are An account of the late horrid conspiracy to depose Their present Majesties, K. William and Q. Mary, to bring in the French and the late King James, and ruine the city of London ... also, some brief reflections on the trials of the Lord Preston, Major Ashton, and Mr. Elliot, who were chiefly concern''d therein, and found guilty / by a gentleman who was present at their trials. The loyal martyr vindicated, and A letter to Mr. Secretary Trenchard discovering a conspiracy against the laws and ancient constitution of England : with reflections on the present pretended plot..

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:

king, people, government, tcp, prince, plot, persons, nation, man, lord, law, world, war, title, sir, secretary, royal, religion, prisoner, preston, place, party, parliament, orange, office, mr., ministers, men, majesty, life, liberty, letters, laws, kingdom, justice, jury, interest, honour, goodman, french, faction, evidence, english, england, enemies, design, deposition, conspirators, church, att

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 mr, and The loyal martyr vindicated 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, t, man, evidence, thing, wou''d, people, person, tho, jury, cou''d, nothing, men, nation, reason, others, 〈, self, way, king, part, order, design, things, day, enemies, rest, none, title, gentlemen, subjects, life, interest, witnesses, occasion, body, case, year, place, money, ▪, text, question, persons, p., one, matter, d, name, account

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:

was, be, is, have, were, had, are, been, do, did, being, made, make, has, said, say, know, give, take, done, see, think, went, having, come, taken, found, sworn, does, go, came, am, challenge, let, given, put, says, believe, sent, according, told, brought, find, tell, appear, left, thought, prove, set, pretended

Proper Nouns

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

mr., sir, king, 〉, lord, cook, 〈, ◊, england, ●, law, goodman, government, prince, c., prisoner, cl, arr, j., john, james, men, london, court, gen., porter, persons, man, france, william, majesty, b., god, kingdom, att, l., treby, shower, party, laws, pannel, house, english, case, parliament, world, justice, chernock, tcp, witnesses

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?"

he, it, his, they, i, you, their, him, our, them, we, my, your, us, me, himself, ''em, themselves, its, her, she, em, one, ours, theirs, thy, shou''d, mine, itself, yours, ●, yourself, whereof, thee, subdu''d, rhey, ourselves, ng, carry''d, ay

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, same, own, many, great, more, true, guilty, several, good, present, least, late, last, first, new, whole, much, french, little, former, most, sufficient, particular, general, fit, plain, next, certain, necessary, able, ready, best, possible, common, sure, less, very, free, few, second, mean, better, only, enough, long, lawful, legal, full

not, so, then, as, there, now, very, well, only, never, most, here, more, up, away, therefore, out, ever, even, too, yet, in, much, over, all, at, first, before, far, again, still, just, down, long, afterwards, thus, on, indeed, rather, enough, also, n''t, always, otherwise, easily, particularly, soon, no, else, immediately

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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