Distant Reader - subject-marriage-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 34 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 717,030 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 21,089 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 90. 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:

will, may, one, god, man, must, shall, yet, good, wife, marriage, much, husband, first, now, men, many, make, well, love, like, woman, law, bee, made, without, great, might, time, also, say, another, let, things, see, therefore, doe, though, us, lord, doth, life, every, way, hee, come, others, either, take, thing

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are Matrimoniall honovr, or, The mutuall crowne and comfort of godly, loyall, and chaste marriage wherein the right way to preserve the honour of marriage unstained, is at large described, urged, and applied : with resolution of sundry materiall questions concerning this argument / by D.R. ..., The ten pleasures of marriage relating all the delights and contentments that are mask''d under the bands of matrimony / written by A. Marsh, typogr., and Tetrachordon: expositions upon the foure chief places in scripture, which treat of mariage, or nullities in mariage. On Gen.I.27.28. compar''d and explain''d by Gen.2.18.23.24. Deut.24.1.2. Matth.5.31.32. with Matth.19. from the 3d.v. to the 11th. I Cor.7. from the 10th to the 16th. Wherein the doctrine and discipline of divorce, as was lately publish''d, is confirm''d by explanation of scripture, by testimony of ancient fathers, of civill lawes in the primitive church, of famousest reformed divines, and lastly, by an intended act of the Parlament and Church of England in the last eyare of Edvvard the sixth. / By the former author J.M..

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

early english, english books, put away, books online, every one, creation partnership, text creation, page images, one another, god will, characters represented, tcp schema, image sets, represented either, will make, one flesh, six hundred, one thousand, marrie another, thousand six, will never, many times, must needs, man may, good man, good wife, tells us, may bee, thine owne, new married, early works, every thing, good woman, let us, married persons, may see, must bee, single life, married estate, authority aforesaid, online text, financial support, markup reviewed, institutions providing, providing financial, encoded text, bit group, without asking, encoded edition, creative commons

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are The Quakers wedding, October, 24. 1671. A proclamation, against penny-weddings, and The forc''d marriage. Or, vnfortunate Celia. When old fools do a wooing go to those who are young-girls, they court their cruel foes, the old man sees he can''t prevail with tongue, but finds t[h]at young ones, love to sport with young: he to the virgins parents makes redress, and doth the n[u]mber of his bags express; which takes away her fathers heart by stealth, he weds her not to him, but to his wealth. VVhich being done, she loaths his weak embraces, and throws herself on ruinous disgraces. Tune, Since Celia''s my foe..

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, man, god, wife, woman, lord, world, marriage, good, husband, church, christ, thy, thee, scripture, men, king, christian, thou, saviour, reason, paul, parents, love, loue, law, hath, family, bride, bee, apostle, vers, town, thing, sonne, pleasure, pharises, nature, moses, mistris, maid, life, hee, heart, haue, gospel, gods, gentleman, gent, early

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 god, and A curtaine lecture as it is read by a countrey farmers wife to her good man. By a countrey gentlewoman or lady to her esquire or knight. By a souldiers wife to her captain or lievtenant. By a citizens or tradesmans wife to her husband. By a court lady to her lord. Concluding with an imitable lecture read by a queene to her soveraigne lord and king. 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?":

man, wife, marriage, husband, men, time, things, woman, way, others, thing, life, law, reason, heart, selfe, self, love, nothing, children, women, place, husbands, wives, one, part, body, words, nature, day, persons, cause, end, text, death, shee, mariage, person, t, hath, divorce, world, honour, name, parents, hee, times, hand, mind, case

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, was, were, had, being, make, do, made, let, say, did, see, said, come, take, been, put, has, bee, give, know, done, according, having, hath, set, ''s, marry, found, makes, thought, go, s, find, taken, brought, live, am, given, doe, think, love, bring, married, use, came, get

Proper Nouns

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

god, thou, 〉, 〈, ◊, lord, hath, ●, christ, doe, tcp, law, wife, man, owne, church, bee, c., yea, gods, husband, act, hee, thomas, marriage, love, king, wee, world, de, cor, text, sir, english, iohn, father, master, men, jealousie, john, william, county, lib, t, paul, eebo, woman, tei, mr., bride

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, her, they, their, he, i, them, you, him, she, your, we, our, thy, my, us, themselves, me, its, himself, thee, one, theirs, ours, l, hers, mine, yours, ye, herself, em, ''em, ''s, s, yf, vp, us''d, vnto, thou, p, wil, whosoever, whereof, ourselves, hitherto, f, ●, ô, yoakt

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, good, many, more, great, same, first, much, own, true, little, better, former, married, best, second, whole, most, new, like, wise, common, least, greater, due, old, last, full, free, present, young, happy, early, religious, saith, very, bad, sweet, necessary, ill, next, dead, greatest, english, able, several, sure, worse, small

not, so, then, more, now, as, also, well, therefore, very, yet, only, most, much, up, never, out, too, away, first, here, thus, rather, even, onely, ever, together, there, in, still, once, else, again, all, off, indeed, before, thereof, perhaps, no, just, long, especially, otherwise, better, further, at, far, over, enough

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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