Distant Reader - subject-maryland-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 8 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 86,750 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 10,843 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:

shall, will, lord, england, virginia, may, one, maryland, good, time, men, many, province, now, great, first, two, english, made, people, yet, government, land, governour, make, countrey, place, power, much, man, also, text, heires, wee, aforesaid, doe, stone, part, baltemore, captain, well, without, within, take, every, country, done, come, three, charge

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are Virginia impartially examined, and left to publick view, to be considered by all iudicious and honest men under which title is comprehended the degrees from 34 to 39, wherein lyes the rich and healthfull countries of Roanock, the now plantations of Virginia and Mary-land ... / by William Bullock, Gent., A relation of Maryland together, vvith a map of the countrey, the conditions of plantation, his Majesties charter to the Lord Baltemore, translated into English., and Virginia and Maryland, or, The Lord Baltamore''s printed case, uncased and answered shewing the illegality of his patent and usurpation of royal jurisdiction and dominion there : with the injustice and tyranny practised against ... adventurers and planters : also a short relation of the papists late rebellion against the government of His Highness the Lord Protector ... : to which is added a brief account of the commissioners proceedings in the reducing of Maryland ....

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

lord baltemore, lord baltamore, captain stone, early english, english books, now lord, lord protector, books online, page images, thought fit, creation partnership, shall find, shall appoint, text creation, one man, captain william, william stone, richard bennet, late king, shall thinke, every man, wee haue, lord baltamores, doe give, shall advise, wee doe, governour stone, thinke fit, king james, textual changes, henry coursey, john hammond, shall see, due obedience, colonial period, ann arundel, xml conversion, images scanned, bit group, financial support, tcp assigned, work described, online text, creative commons, markup reviewed, batch review, proquest page, without asking, roger heamans, pfs batch

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are Virginia and Maryland, or, The Lord Baltamore''s printed case, uncased and answered shewing the illegality of his patent and usurpation of royal jurisdiction and dominion there : with the injustice and tyranny practised against ... adventurers and planters : also a short relation of the papists late rebellion against the government of His Highness the Lord Protector ... : to which is added a brief account of the commissioners proceedings in the reducing of Maryland ... The Lord Baltemores case concerning the province of Maryland, adjoyning to Virginia in America. With full and clear answers to all material objections, touching his rights, jurisdiction, and proceedings there. And certaine reasons of state, why the Parliament should not impeach the same. Unto which is also annexed, a true copy of a commission from the late King''s eldest son, to Mr. William Davenant, to dispossess the Lord Baltemore of the said province, because of his adherence to this Common-wealth., and A relation of Maryland together, vvith a map of the countrey, the conditions of plantation, his Majesties charter to the Lord Baltemore, translated into English..

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:

lord, english, england, virginia, tcp, countrey, province, patent, maryland, governour, government, baltemore, wee, superintendents, successors, stone, servants, presents, mary, king, john, item, indians, heires, heamans, good, flax, country, countries, councell, commissioners, baltamore, assembly

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 shall, and Virginia and Maryland, or, The Lord Baltamore''s printed case, uncased and answered shewing the illegality of his patent and usurpation of royal jurisdiction and dominion there : with the injustice and tyranny practised against ... adventurers and planters : also a short relation of the papists late rebellion against the government of His Highness the Lord Protector ... : to which is added a brief account of the commissioners proceedings in the reducing of Maryland ... 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?":

time, men, people, place, man, power, part, text, land, name, way, charge, things, others, day, manner, places, wealth, thing, parts, ground, servants, heires, nothing, item, work, hath, thither, ▪, ship, reason, case, country, rest, government, commodities, persons, times, lordship, yeares, year, use, sorts, servant, person, hand, divers, nature, goods, books

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, have, are, said, was, were, had, being, made, been, make, take, done, come, do, give, let, having, according, aforesaid, came, taken, set, know, did, find, called, found, sent, put, brought, see, published, say, granted, send, concerning, live, go, given, doe, thought, received, intended, went, serve, hath, advise, appoint

Proper Nouns

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

lord, england, virginia, maryland, province, governour, countrey, _, baltemore, english, government, baltamore, hath, captain, wee, king, stone, mary, god, councell, william, mr., indians, tcp, doe, assembly, vs, parliament, heires, successors, commission, patent, land, councel, country, c., heamans, captaine, oath, tobacco, master, lawes, river, plantation, li, law, bay, adventurers, protector, inhabitants

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?"

they, his, their, it, them, i, he, you, him, our, we, your, my, themselves, me, himself, us, her, she, its, thee, theirs, ours, ye, one, yee, thy, yours, vp, ●, whereof, vvith, vnto, tyrany, l, hee, clog''d

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, many, good, great, more, same, first, own, common, much, best, late, little, english, better, fit, present, true, whole, free, next, early, most, aforesaid, full, absolute, few, second, last, able, small, particular, like, large, necessary, due, new, old, contrary, excellent, several, rich, ready, pleasant, least, honest, greater, former, satisfied

not, so, then, now, there, very, also, as, well, therefore, more, ever, onely, here, first, thereof, over, out, never, up, yet, much, in, further, rather, together, away, only, most, about, whatsoever, otherwise, thus, off, therein, before, again, next, generally, often, neere, long, even, already, all, too, likewise, lately, forth, formerly

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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