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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 26 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 712,532 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 27,405 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 88. 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:

est, will, ae, may, case, bee, ut, one, things, vel, non, first, doth, doe, verbs, good, thing, man, shall, many, also, like, god, words, us, time, hee, two, make, um, master, de, ii, well, ad, tense, verb, made, haue, es, men, word, put, si, latine, much, now, cum, sum, haec

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are Corderius dialogues translated grammatically For the more speedy attaining to the knowledge of the Latine tongue, for writing and speaking Latine. Done chiefly for the good of schooles, to be used according to the direction set downe in the booke called Ludus literarius, or The grammar-schoole., An easie entrance to the Latine tongue ... a work tending to the school-masters''s eas, and the weaker scholar''s encouragement in the first and most wearisome steps to learning / by Charles Hoole ..., and Lillies rules construed wherunto are added Tho. Robertsons Heteroclites, the Latine Syntaxis, and Qui mihi..

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

preterperfect tense, genitive case, let us, ablative case, id est, present tense, may bee, nominative case, latine tongue, english books, early english, infinitive mood, accusative case, neuter gender, books online, proper names, sum vel, genitiue case, vel fui, roman non, non est, dative case, nominatiue case, shall bee, singular number, second declension, every one, third declension, many things, future tense, page images, case singular, declined like, meane time, plurall number, creation partnership, text creation, present tens, accusatiue case, will doe, ablatiue case, tense singular, feminine gender, preterperfect tens, second person, plural number, tense sing, bee loved, hic haec, will haue

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are October the 22. 1649. The three-penny cooks fat in the fire, or rhe [sic] downefall of as-in-presentis; or the schoole-master under the black-rod. Or the brain-breakers breaker newly broke out againe. By Thomas Grantham, master in art of Peter-house in Cambridge, heretofore professor in Bowlane and Mug-well-street neere Barber Chyrurgions Hall: now over against Graies Inn Gate in Holborne, at Master Bulls. The English rudiments of the Latine tongue, explained by question and answer. VVhich are so formed, that a childe, omitting altogether the questions, may learn onely the answers, and bee fully instructed in the rudiments of the Latine tongue. / By William Du-Gard. For the use of Marchant-Tailor''s School., and The grammar warre. Or The eight parts of speach, noune, pronoune. verbe, participle, aduerbe, coniunction, preposition, interiection, altogether by the eares Together with the lamentable burning of a petty schoole..

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, latine, case, english, accusative, genitive, est, declension, ablative, thing, nominative, man, god, dative, verbs, vel, thou, participle, nouns, neuter, mood, future, bee, substantive, preterperfect, person, number, non, master, infinitive, hee, gender, word, rule, present, preposition, lord, grammar, adjective, vocative, verbe, verb, thy, tense, sunt, rules, plural, plur, passive, nounes

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 thou, and The Latine grammar. Or, A guide teaching a compendious way to attaine exact skill in the Latine tongue for a proper congruity and elegant variety of phrases in prose and verse. Published for the common good in continuation of a former guide, teaching to read English rightly, and write accordingly. By Richard Lloyd. 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?":

m., things, case, thing, man, words, time, men, word, ad, nothing, doth, ▪, part, place, mihi, cases, master, o, day, person, speech, selfe, hee, manner, father, way, adjectives, hath, sunt, b, r, others, end, rule, l, number, quod, sum, t, mee, tibi, matter, signification, text, c, p, si, h, dialogue

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, are, have, do, was, make, had, being, made, put, were, bee, been, say, let, am, know, come, called, take, give, set, see, read, doe, done, did, loved, declined, heard, go, taught, pray, sing, hath, used, haue, love, end, according, said, thou, tell, est, ending, learned, govern, concerning, teach

Proper Nouns

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

thou, f., a., q., ●, c., est, n., ae, m., vel, 〉, ◊, 〈, god, bee, p., verbs, i., b., ii, doe, de, d., li, cum, verb, te, e, b, g., e., s, latine, hath, tu, wee, r., es, c, english, q, t, v., u, à, ab, m, gender, haec

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?"

i, it, you, they, me, my, he, his, them, their, we, our, us, your, thy, him, thee, its, her, themselves, she, himself, u, one, em, mine, s, ui, f, yours, ours, ye, non, l, yee, quae, p, o, ti, ne, yy, y, thou, oleo, k, ''s, †, whereof, vp, vnto

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, many, good, first, such, same, little, great, second, more, present, third, non, common, much, genitive, most, short, long, last, pro, proper, tense, singular, old, own, doth, hic, latine, fourth, true, wise, best, like, certain, english, better, few, nominative, ablative, early, able, former, whole, roman, -, full, perfect, est, young

not, so, then, also, more, very, now, well, most, together, out, therefore, onely, as, sometimes, away, much, there, up, thus, only, long, indeed, in, first, here, yet, commonly, before, never, often, forth, ae, too, even, rather, likewise, especially, hereafter, nt, all, down, alone, otherwise, over, enough, off, else, almost, easily

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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