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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 31 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 319,010 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 10,290 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 89. 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:

death, god, shall, will, lord, man, may, life, one, us, now, time, yet, great, many, soul, day, good, text, christ, let, body, must, men, die, therefore, last, much, come, world, made, first, dead, say, king, things, well, never, make, see, tcp, every, end, heaven, house, self, live, ever, words, also

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are The house of weeping, or, Mans last progress to his long home fully represented in several funeral discourses, with many pertinent ejaculations under each head, to remind us of our mortality and fading state / by John Dunton ..., A brief review of the most material Parliamentary proceedings of this present Parliament, and their armies, in their civil and martial affairs. Which Parliament began the third of November, 1640. And the remarkable transactions are continued untill the Act of Oblivion, February 24. 1652. Published as a breviary, leading all along successiviely, as they fell out in their severall years: so that if any man will be informed of any remarkable passage, he may turne to the year, and so see in some measure, in what moneth thereof it was accomplished. And for information of such as are altogether ignorant of the rise and progresse of these times, which things are brought to passe, that former ages have not heard of, and after ages will admire. A work worthy to be kept in record, and communicated to posterity., and Fair warnings to a careless world in the pious letter written by the Right Honourable James Earl of Marleburgh, a little before his death, to the Right Honourable Sir Hugh Pollard, comptroller of his Maties houshold. With the last words of CXL and upwards, of the most learned and honourable persons of England, and other parts of the world..

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

early english, english books, let us, books online, jesus christ, early works, page images, creation partnership, text creation, last words, lord jesus, every one, rich man, every day, represented either, tcp schema, characters represented, image sets, almighty god, will never, god will, shall see, anno christi, god almighty, one day, encoded text, without asking, financial support, online text, tiff page, xml conversion, batch review, institutions providing, text transcribed, pfs batch, bit group, work described, images scanned, asking permission, iv tiff, tcp assigned, providing financial, encoded edition, creative commons, markup reviewed, image set, commercial purposes, proquest page, may see, therefore let

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are The admirable and glorious appearance of the eternal God, in his glorious power, in and through a child of the age of betwixt eight and nine years, upon her dying bed, opening her mouth to speak forth his praise, and extol his reverent holy name and power: a short relation whereof, together with her exercise throughout her sickness, is hereafter collected, or so much thereof as was by us certainly remembred. The last speech of Sir Godfrey McCullough of Myretoun, knight and baronet, who was beheaded at the cross of Edinburgh, the twenty sixth day of March, 1697., and The last speech of Thomas Thwing priest; executed at York for high-trenson [sic], on Saturday the 23. of October 1680..

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, lord, god, early, king, world, john, church, soul, religion, master, man, house, duke, death, white, thomas, text, table, spirit, son, sir, sickness, scots, scaffold, saviour, samuel, saints, rich, resurrection, pullen, prophet, place, person, people, parliament, nation, munday, mr., montrosse, monmouth, mind, merchant, men, majesty, love, london, live, life, learning

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 death, and Mrs Elizabeth Gaunt''s Last speech who was burnt at London, Oct. 23. 1685. as it was written by her own hand, & delivered to Capt. Richardson keeper of Newgate. 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?":

death, time, man, life, day, body, things, words, soul, text, self, men, end, ▪, thing, way, nothing, place, people, years, works, others, heart, work, hand, art, glory, mind, hath, world, eyes, hands, blood, thy, t, days, person, texts, part, reason, friends, books, power, tears, manner, images, eternity, selves, one, mercy

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, had, were, do, being, said, been, let, die, did, come, made, say, am, make, see, live, know, take, having, give, go, done, put, came, dying, set, taken, think, has, died, according, brought, pray, desire, lived, given, speak, encoded, blessed, lay, find, hath, look, carried, sent

Proper Nouns

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

god, thou, lord, christ, life, death, man, king, heaven, tcp, world, jesus, earth, john, soul, house, hath, father, ●, text, st., c., england, ye, men, spirit, sect, english, 〉, son, sir, mr., grave, parliament, church, london, anno, 〈, yea, christian, dust, master, resurrection, hainam, eebo, tei, saviour, holy, sickness, oxford

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, his, i, it, my, him, they, we, their, me, our, you, them, thy, her, us, your, she, thee, himself, themselves, its, ye, mine, one, ours, ''em, thou, yours, theirs, ourselves, vvith, vvhat, ●, á, whereof, severall, s, rhey, pg, pe, o, non, myself, imself, ian, em, diu, ay, ''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?"

many, great, good, last, other, own, such, same, more, dead, little, much, first, true, most, early, short, better, long, present, old, sick, several, poor, full, english, saith, whole, best, ready, happy, glorious, certain, very, next, sweet, general, miserable, few, available, small, eternal, high, former, common, least, able, second, holy, late

not, so, then, now, up, more, therefore, most, never, very, here, ever, also, out, only, well, as, again, away, thus, yet, even, much, down, there, first, long, often, once, off, truly, together, rather, too, forth, in, always, still, no, indeed, far, soon, all, early, over, before, on, just, thereof, 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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