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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 42 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 404,789 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 9,637 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 87. 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:

de, shall, will, may, one, land, king, per, lands, many, great, lord, time, text, england, made, law, men, first, every, good, service, without, now, make, money, people, much, part, tcp, et, english, man, also, like, parliament, common, yet, ad, court, called, take, two, kings, well, tenures, custome, coppy, hold, estates

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are A treatise of gavelkind, both name and thing. Shewing the true etymologie and derivation of the one, the nature, antiquity, and original of the other. With sundry emergent observations, both pleasant and profitable to be known of Kentish-men and others, especially such as are studious, either of the ancient custome, or the common law of this kingdome. By (a well-willer to both) William Somner., Tenenda non tollenda, or, The necessity of preserving tenures in capite and by knight-service which according to their first institution were, and are yet, a great part of the salus populi, and the safety and defence of the King, as well as of his people : together with a prospect of the very many mischiefs and inconveniences, which by the taking away or altering of those tenures, will inevitably happen to the King and his kingdomes / by Fabian Philipps ..., and Fragmenta antiquitatis, antient tenures of land, and jocular customs of some mannors made publick for the diversion of some, and instruction of others / by T.B. of the Inner-Temple, Esquire..

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

english books, early english, per annum, books online, domini regis, knight service, per serjantiam, per cent, text creation, creation partnership, page images, one hundred, domino rege, de domino, per servitium, take away, represented either, image sets, characters represented, tcp schema, thousand pounds, manerium de, common law, hundred years, taken away, early works, pounds per, will never, de la, many times, without asking, bit group, markup reviewed, providing financial, financial support, tiff page, creative commons, image set, online text, batch review, asking permission, work described, tcp assigned, xml conversion, institutions providing, encoded edition, iv tiff, proquest page, commercial purposes, every man

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are Proposal, by Doctor Hugh Chamberlen for a land credit presented to the Parliament by the committee to whom it was referred to be considered. The case of the Lord Jeffreys, and the Lady Charlotte, his wife, sole daughter and heir of Philip Earl of Pembroke, deceased, in relation to a bill entituled, an Act to set aside several amendments and alterations made in the records and writs of a fine and two recoveries in the Grand Sessions, held for the county of Glamorgan., and To the knights, citizens, and burgesses, in Parliament assembled, the proposals of William Sydenham, esquire, for the raising a considerable revenue to His Majesty, by a tax on mony, proportionable to that on land; which he humbly layeth before your honours great wisdom and consideration.

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:

tcp, king, lord, law, lands, england, laws, land, county, estates, court, trade, parliament, nation, money, majesties, ireland, capite, bank, act, tenures, tenure, tenants, statute, socage, service, office, man, lords, knight, inclosure, heirs, god, gentry, estate, english, custome, commons, church, years, writ, wee, wardships, wards, undertaking, truelove, title, tillage, tenet, tenant

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 shall, and A prospective glasse wherein Englands bondage under the Normane yoke, with the rise, growth, and continuation is clearly asserted, a subject not yet treated upon ... shewing how the law came to be in an unknown tongue, and from whence the judges and other inferior lawyers had their beginning, and in opposition to former law, how the 4 termes of the yeer came to be kept : as also, the corruption of this law, bringing with it the fines and rents to the lord of the manor for all free- holds and copyhold land : being a collection from the most choice of modern historians : with some copyhold land : being a collection from the most choice of modern historians : with some brief observations upon Scripture, as proving from thence that this law is contradictory to the nature of God''s dealing with the sons of man, and contrary to the nature of freedome / by a lover of Englishmens freedomes. 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, land, people, men, part, money, text, man, ad, service, day, lands, p., notes, l., kings, years, way, reason, times, others, tenants, tenures, texts, year, books, thing, ▪, title, works, case, things, nature, place, use, characters, work, interest, value, rent, power, xml, page, quod, et, images, end, name, words, cap

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:

be, is, have, was, are, were, had, said, being, been, made, do, make, did, called, take, say, according, give, come, taken, given, found, hold, paid, encoded, done, pay, put, held, let, having, see, granted, used, find, brought, known, set, intended, has, based, making, created, hath, published, know, bring, came, call

Proper Nouns

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

〉, ◊, 〈, de, king, lord, england, lands, law, tcp, land, parliament, court, c., coppy, god, lords, ●, capite, english, estates, et, knight, com, london, hath, regis, bank, div, trade, laws, e., domini, text, cum, gavelkynd, custome, act, s., kingdom, service, sir, ireland, l., county, h., office, father, i., fee

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, their, his, they, them, he, i, our, him, we, my, you, themselves, your, us, me, himself, her, its, she, thy, theirs, thee, one, ours, mine, †, ''em, ye, vp, yt, yours, xl, whosoever, whereof, thou, ne, k, hymself, herciscundae, hee, haply, ''s

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, many, great, good, same, more, first, own, common, much, several, early, old, english, general, like, little, most, true, former, whole, free, certain, greater, better, late, last, ancient, present, least, available, second, small, due, new, able, pro, particular, original, next, best, necessary, few, full, third, saith, right, large, poor

not, so, then, as, now, also, more, well, therefore, very, out, only, never, thus, there, most, thereof, away, here, much, yet, up, in, first, onely, ever, otherwise, too, rather, no, afterwards, together, sometimes, over, before, even, again, far, all, especially, that, further, often, online, thereby, is, long, at, down, else

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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