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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 296 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 2,354,212 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 7,953 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 85. 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:

xml, london, id, reg, pos, lemma, city, one, shall, will, church, king, lord, time, god, may, great, now, text, made, house, first, men, many, called, also, sir, day, two, yet, common, within, good, tcp, man, street, much, england, like, lane, english, every, without, make, iohn, place, us, pc, side, well

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are Londinum triumphans : Londons triumphs celebrated in honour of the truely deserving Sir Anthony Bateman, Knight, Lord Maior of the honourable City of London, and done at the costs and charges of the Right Worshipful the Company of Skinners, the 29th of October, 1663 / by John Tatham., The triumphs of London performed on Thursday, Octob. 29, 1691, for the entertainment of the Right Honourable Sir Thomas Stamp, Kt., lord mayor of the city of London : containing a true description of the several pageants, with the speeches spoken on each pageant : all set forth at the proper costs and charges of the worshipful Company of Drapers / by E.S., and The survey of London containing the original, increase, modern estate and government of that city, methodically set down : with a memorial of those famouser acts of charity, which for publick and pious vses have been bestowed by many worshipfull citizens and benefactors : as also all the ancient and modern monuments erected in the churches, not only of those two famous cities, London and Westminster, but (now newly added) four miles compass / begun first by the pains and industry of John Stow, in the year 1598 ; afterwards inlarged by the care and diligence of A.M. in the year 1618 ; and now compleatly finished by the study & labour of A.M., H.D. and others, this present year 1633 ; whereunto, besides many additions (as appears by the contents) are annexed divers alphabetical tables, especially two, the first, an index of things, the second, a concordance of names..

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

early english, english books, books online, pos acp, pc xml, lord mayor, parish church, text creation, creation partnership, page images, king henry, early works, lord maior, north side, sir thomas, south side, sir iohn, rendition hi, old time, pos cc, cc reg, textual changes, king edward, without asking, images scanned, work described, institutions providing, text transcribed, proquest page, asking permission, providing financial, markup reviewed, encoded text, tiff page, bit group, creative commons, encoded edition, batch review, financial support, iv tiff, image set, xml conversion, online text, commercial purposes, pfs batch, tcp assigned, po reg, pos po, th century, represented either

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are The Kings entertainment at Guild-Hall or, Londons option in fruition. To each gentleman soldier in the company [of] Captain John Hulls, captain in the Yellow regiment of trained bands of London., and The Prince of Orange his speech to the citizens of London..

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, london, city, lord, parliament, king, god, church, house, english, early, man, england, mayor, law, land, haue, court, committee, ward, fire, council, commons, thy, text, plague, company, aldermen, vpon, lords, like, hall, citie, charter, sir, sheriffs, parish, majesty, great, government, good, gods, country, common, citizens, world, thou, thomas, prince, people

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 xml, and An exact account of all who are the present members of the King''s College of Physicians in London, and others authorized by them to practice in the said City, and within seven miles compass thereof, whereby ignorant and illegal pretenders to the exercise of the said faculty, may be discovered, who dayly impose on unwary people, and claim immunities and priviledges, appertaining only to that corporation. 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:

1. london - The survey of London containing the original, increase, modern estate and government of that city, methodically set down : with a memorial of those famouser acts of charity, which for publick and pious vses have been bestowed by many worshipfull citizens and benefactors : as also all the ancient and modern monuments erected in the churches, not only of those two famous cities, London and Westminster, but (now newly added) four miles compass / begun first by the pains and industry of John Stow, in the year 1598 ; afterwards inlarged by the care and diligence of A.M. in the year 1618 ; and now compleatly finished by the study & labour of A.M., H.D. and others, this present year 1633 ; whereunto, besides many additions (as appears by the contents) are annexed divers alphabetical tables, especially two, the first, an index of things, the second, a concordance of names.
2. text - The second part of The nights search, discovering the condition of the various fowles of night, or, The second great mystery of iniquity exactly revealed with the projects of these times : in a poem / by Humphrey Mill, author of The nights search.
3. xml - Londinum triumphans : Londons triumphs celebrated in honour of the truely deserving Sir Anthony Bateman, Knight, Lord Maior of the honourable City of London, and done at the costs and charges of the Right Worshipful the Company of Skinners, the 29th of October, 1663 / by John Tatham.

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:

1. city, london, god - Londinum triumphans, or, An historical account of the grand influence the actions of the city of London have had upon the affairs of the nation for many ages past shewing the antiquity, honour, glory, and renown of this famous city : the grounds of her rights, priviledges, and franchises : the foundation of her charter ... / collected from the most authentick authors, and illustrated with variety of remarks.
2. said, london, church - The survey of London containing the original, increase, modern estate and government of that city, methodically set down : with a memorial of those famouser acts of charity, which for publick and pious vses have been bestowed by many worshipfull citizens and benefactors : as also all the ancient and modern monuments erected in the churches, not only of those two famous cities, London and Westminster, but (now newly added) four miles compass / begun first by the pains and industry of John Stow, in the year 1598 ; afterwards inlarged by the care and diligence of A.M. in the year 1618 ; and now compleatly finished by the study & labour of A.M., H.D. and others, this present year 1633 ; whereunto, besides many additions (as appears by the contents) are annexed divers alphabetical tables, especially two, the first, an index of things, the second, a concordance of names.
3. text, tcp, mr - A knights coniuring Done in earnest: discouered in iest. By Thomas Dekker.
4. xml, id, reg - Londinum triumphans : Londons triumphs celebrated in honour of the truely deserving Sir Anthony Bateman, Knight, Lord Maior of the honourable City of London, and done at the costs and charges of the Right Worshipful the Company of Skinners, the 29th of October, 1663 / by John Tatham.
5. god, did, man - Historia quinq-articularis exarticulata, or, Animadversions on Doctor Heylin''s quintquarticular history by Henry Hickman.

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, time, text, men, day, man, side, place, house, street, b, end, people, part, year, others, houses, things, persons, way, life, hath, name, pounds, p, kings, books, t, yeere, works, divers, lane, times, fire, death, work, pc, body, years, thing, images, page, texts, reason, hand, number, faire, places, words, nothing

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, were, said, had, being, made, been, did, called, do, make, take, come, gave, say, according, set, let, see, taken, given, give, done, came, put, builded, encoded, having, know, buried, has, found, read, brought, hath, kept, sent, find, bee, go, granted, think, am, ''s, thought, used

Proper Nouns

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

london, city, w, god, lord, king, church, sir, 〉, id="a63188, ◊, england, tcp, iohn, 〈, mr., henry, maior, court, thomas, hath, hall, house, parish, mayor, c., ward, william, parliament, common, s., st., edward, saint, lane, english, richard, thou, ●, citizens, north, west, aldermen, commons, text, law, east, tower, ¶, pos="acp

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, their, they, he, i, them, you, him, we, her, our, my, your, us, she, me, themselves, thy, himself, its, thee, one, vp, theirs, mine, ''em, ye, ours, yours, hic, ''s, us''d, l, em, yeere, hee, vnto, ts, ian, ay, whosoever, whereof, thou, na, hers, dy''d, †, vvith, 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, great, same, many, first, good, more, own, old, much, new, early, common, english, whole, late, second, last, little, third, true, next, large, free, most, high, present, full, ancient, available, several, long, former, greater, better, general, fair, small, poor, least, fourth, textual, few, like, sixth, certain, best, due, pos="n1

not, so, then, now, also, there, more, up, as, very, out, thereof, therefore, here, well, most, ever, only, thus, yet, first, never, much, in, down, away, too, together, even, over, before, still, onely, long, again, forth, online, sometimes, rather, off, sometime, far, all, above, likewise, early, once, otherwise, no, else

Next steps

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