Distant Reader - subject-maritimeLaw-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 13 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 432,392 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 33,260 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 84. 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, may, sea, law, shall, ship, one, made, goods, laws, ships, yet, england, admiralty, king, time, will, jurisdiction, first, without, case, court, master, within, land, admiral, great, done, common, seas, part, must, per, taken, thereof, well, also, man, things, according, cap, men, ad, port, another, english, therefore, right, though, maritime

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are De jure maritimo et navali, or, A treatise of affairs maritime and of commerce in three books / by Charles Molloy., The maritime dicæologie, or, Sea-jurisdiction of England set forth in three several books : the first setting forth the antiquity of the admiralty in England, the second setting forth the ports, havens, and creeks of the sea to be within the by John Exton ..., and Synēgoros thalassios, A vievv of the admiral jurisdiction wherein the most material points concerning that jurisdiction are fairly and submissively discussed : as also divers of the laws, customes, rights, and priviledges of the high admiralty of England by ancient records, and other arguments of law asserted : whereunto is added by way of appendix an extract of the ancient laws of Oleron / by John Godolphin ....

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

common law, civil law, admiralty court, set forth, things done, altum mare, sir edward, super altum, edward coke, maritime laws, english books, early english, maritime affairs, de jure, contracts made, books online, british seas, de la, high seas, infra corpus, high admiral, admirals jurisdiction, creation partnership, text creation, thing done, coram vobis, every one, part thereof, ad leg, concerning maritime, maritime causes, si quis, page images, le roy, municipal laws, jure belli, great brittain, king edward, th year, natural born, main sea, ship shall, maritime law, apud westm, shall pay, high sea, may take, law maritime, anno regni, brittish seas

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are A proclamation for observing the staple-port at Camphire. A proclamation discharging the transporting of persons to the plantations of forraigners in America., and A proclamation appointing all passes to ships to be granted hereafter by the High-admiral, his deputes, judges and officers.

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, seas, sea, england, nations, master, land, king, ship, realm, prince, laws, law, english, court, vessel, statute, prohibition, port, owners, merchants, merchant, maritime, mariners, majesty, majesties, lord, kingdom, justice, jurisdiction, hollanders, goods, fishing, dominion, county, common, civil, admiralty, war, voyage, viii, vii, vide, trade, tit, thomas, subjects, states, state, skipper

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 sea, and To the most honourable assembly of knights, citizens, and burgesses of the House of Parliament the humble petition of the adventurers in the ship called the Pearle. 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?":

goods, ship, time, part, things, case, man, ad, cap, hath, ships, place, power, reason, thing, others, sea, men, words, merchant, land, jurisdiction, way, manner, right, kings, year, money, nature, day, use, cases, party, doth, places, persons, cause, years, subjects, quod, parts, causes, dominion, death, self, damage, p., people, water, rest

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, are, was, have, were, said, made, had, being, been, done, do, taken, according, make, take, called, did, set, having, brought, given, concerning, pay, give, found, granted, put, come, hath, used, paid, say, mentioned, answer, happen, born, committed, cast, appear, bound, received, see, lost, find, belonging, become, sent, known

Proper Nouns

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

law, de, sea, c., england, l., king, admiralty, laws, court, master, admiral, seas, 〉, ship, ◊, 〈, jurisdiction, ships, port, english, maritime, common, ports, statute, hath, land, lib, edward, merchants, mariners, lord, nations, civil, prince, goods, leg, ed, vessel, realm, london, est, war, sir, justice, le, ●, john, admirals, france

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, his, they, their, he, them, i, him, our, we, her, themselves, himself, us, my, you, she, its, me, your, one, theirs, †, ours, thy, thee, mine, ne, ●, yours, y, ung, u, treateth, sz, s, pluckt, non, hil, f, au

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, same, such, great, own, first, many, several, more, good, like, due, certain, high, common, much, most, whole, true, general, particular, necessary, least, former, subject, last, ancient, very, second, private, free, lawful, proper, pro, next, old, full, sive, greater, large, natural, english, saith, non, little, right, present, new, main, sufficient

not, so, then, as, also, only, thereof, well, therefore, now, there, more, likewise, most, here, out, forth, very, up, otherwise, yet, first, onely, in, much, sometimes, ever, never, even, thus, before, away, afterwards, whatsoever, down, again, therein, all, generally, together, thereby, plainly, no, rather, over, properly, far, else, indeed, at

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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