Distant Reader - subject-military-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 56 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 1,820,415 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 32,507 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:

may, one, first, shall, will, right, men, great, enemy, two, place, left, horse, make, souldiers, time, made, must, hand, army, front, many, foot, caesar, pikes, much, man, also, files, bee, like, good, yet, file, every, battell, well, take, either, hee, order, without, might, number, haue, part, way, three, generall, march

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are Anima''dversions of vvarre; or, A militarie magazine of the truest rules, and ablest instructions, for the managing of warre Composed, of the most refined discipline, and choice experiments that these late Netherlandish, and Swedish warres have produced. With divers new inventions, both of fortifications and stratagems. As also sundry collections taken out of the most approved authors, ancient and moderne, either in Greeke. Latine. Italian. French. Spanish. Dutch, or English. In two bookes. By Robert Ward, Gentleman and commander., The commentaries of C. Julius Cæsar of his warres in Gallia, and the civil warres betwixt him and Pompey / translated into English with many excellent and judicious observations thereupon ; as also The art of our modern training, or, Tactick practise, by Clement Edmonds Esquire, ... ; where unto is adjoyned the eighth commentary of the warres in Gallia, with some short observations upon it ; together with the life of Cæsar, and an account of his medalls ; revised, corrected, and enlarged., and A discourse of military discipline devided into three boockes, declaringe the partes and sufficiencie ordained in a private souldier, and in each officer; servinge in the infantery, till the election and office of the captaine generall; and the laste booke treatinge of fire-wourckes of rare executiones by sea and lande, as alsoe of firtifasions [sic]. Composed by Captaine Gerat Barry Irish..

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

right hand, left hand, give fire, every man, roman non, english books, early english, may bee, books online, like manner, right flanke, halfe files, left flanke, military discipline, many times, whole army, first ranke, every one, shall bee, open order, page images, creation partnership, text creation, set downe, giving fire, one side, whole body, must bee, right wing, half files, three hundred, second observation, will make, pound weight, first observation, may see, march forth, hand file, foot long, next day, two hundred, given fire, one another, must needs, enemies horse, left wing, light armed, meane time, mean time, make use

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are A proclamation, taking off the stop of execution against heretors, called out to attend his majesties host. A proclamation, indemnifying such as have been in arms before the first of June last., and Proclamation indemnifying deserters, who shall return betwixt and the first day of January next to come..

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, generall, horse, army, souldiers, enemy, enemies, prince, officers, chap, romans, reare, pikes, lord, king, great, rankes, pike, god, files, field, early, commander, city, captaine, battell, armie, war, state, soldiers, right, regiment, reere, place, peece, ordnance, officer, observation, nation, musquet, musket, military, master, leader, lacedemonians, general, foot, empire, company, colours

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 A proclamation anent recruits, levies, deserters and passes 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?":

men, place, time, hand, enemy, souldiers, man, files, front, horse, file, part, number, way, order, foot, manner, right, rest, fire, h, enemies, pikes, side, body, places, ground, things, day, end, halfe, hee, figure, distance, people, times, battell, use, reason, thing, length, parts, peece, leaders, charge, ranke, others, foote, forme, strength

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, was, were, being, had, have, make, made, take, did, do, give, having, called, let, come, according, bee, put, set, see, left, stand, brought, said, taken, been, done, came, sent, fight, given, haue, say, found, face, know, commanded, thought, used, fall, charge, bring, placed, performed, making, draw, re

Proper Nouns

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

caesar, army, 〉, ◊, 〈, chap, generall, horse, lib, pikes, enemy, romans, battell, march, ●, god, foot, lord, c., hath, bee, king, hee, rome, haue, souldiers, doe, warre, l., phalange, tcp, camp, captaine, pompey, prince, de, armes, commander, souldier, officers, ordnance, reere, pa, vp, alexander, flanke, gallia, ranke, regiment, command

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?"

their, his, it, they, he, them, your, you, i, him, our, we, themselves, my, himself, us, her, me, its, she, thy, one, vp, thee, theirs, mine, ours, whereof, yours, yt, vvith, ''em, yow, itself, hee, vnto, u, s, o, iu, whosoever, herself, trye, thicknesse, thēselues, there, severall, hers, elias, ee

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, great, such, first, many, same, right, good, left, more, second, much, whole, next, own, best, little, last, true, able, better, third, roman, like, greater, former, most, small, armed, ready, long, least, open, strong, greatest, due, full, high, particular, necessary, few, double, common, military, new, non, front, -, sufficient, present

not, so, then, also, as, out, up, more, well, first, now, therefore, very, thus, most, together, off, much, onely, yet, before, likewise, there, rather, only, in, too, even, thereof, never, away, still, here, otherwise, all, long, especially, often, once, over, forth, down, easily, sometimes, ever, further, else, again, forward, far

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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