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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 11 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 33,540 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 3,049 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:

english, men, text, ship, fight, tcp, great, ships, one, sea, shot, dutch, two, admirall, early, eebo, time, us, three, ordnance, fleet, tei, books, day, many, god, london, encoded, works, first, good, vpon, texts, online, taken, vp, came, made, will, slaine, master, much, enemy, england, man, images, set, xml, phase, number

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are A famous fight at sea VVhere foure English ships vnder the command of Captaine Iohn Weddell, and foure Dutch ships fought three dayes in the Gulfe of Persia neere Ormus, against 8. Portugall gallions, and 3. friggots. As also the memorable fight and losse of the good ship called the Lion, with the barbarous crueltie of the enemie truly declared. With a farewell and hearty well-wishing to our English sea and land forces., A brave memorable and dangerous sea-fight, foughten neere the road of Tittawan in Barbary where the George and Elizabeth (a ship of London) under the command of Mr. Edmond Ellison, having but 19. peeces of ordnance, was encompass''d and encountred by nine great Turkish pyrat ships, or men of war, they being in number of men at the least 60. to one; and their ordnance more than ten to one against the English, yet (by Gods assistance) they were encouraged to a resolute fight, and obtained a glorious victory over their miscreant enemies, and a happy returne with men, ship, and goods to London., and A valorous and perillous sea-fight Fought with three Turkish ships, pirats or men of warre, on the coast of Cornewall, (or Westerne part of England) by the good ship named the Elizabeth, of Plimmouth, she being of the Burthen of 200 tuns, which fight was bravely fought, on Wednesday, the 17 of Iune last part. 1640..

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

early english, english books, books online, page images, text creation, creation partnership, early works, dutch ships, characters represented, image sets, royall iames, sailing ship, represented either, tcp schema, naval battles, batch review, tiff page, providing financial, gap elements, institutions providing, creative commons, great shot, without asking, xml conversion, iv tiff, work described, text transcribed, encoded edition, encoded text, commercial purposes, financial support, pfs batch, online text, asking permission, bit group, images scanned, tcp assigned, image set, markup reviewed, proquest page, true relation, english fleet, good ship, next day, bloody fight, dutch fleet, ships sunk, textual changes, ship named, instances per

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are A true relation of Capt. Kempthorn''s engagement, in the Mary-Rose, with several Algier men of war. The valiant hearted sea-man; declaring a late skirmish fought between our English fleet and the Dutch. Wherein the Dutch was worsted, two of the Dutch ships sunk, and two taken as lawful prize, with a very small loss on the English side. The tune is, Lusty Stukely., and A true and impartial account of a great and bloody fight between part of the English fleet, commanded by Sir Clovesly Shovel and the French at sea with an account of the men killed and wounded : together with the great bravery and courage of Captain Hoskins, from on board Their Majesties ship the Crown, this ninth of December, 1690, riding Plimouth-Sound..

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, english, turks, ship, dutch, sea, portugals, plimmouth, ordnance, men, master, man, london, generall, gen., frigots, french, fleet, elizabeth, bergen, admirall

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 english, and The valiant hearted sea-man; declaring a late skirmish fought between our English fleet and the Dutch. Wherein the Dutch was worsted, two of the Dutch ships sunk, and two taken as lawful prize, with a very small loss on the English side. The tune is, Lusty Stukely. 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, ship, text, fight, ships, time, shot, day, works, texts, images, xml, number, books, characters, slaine, morning, sea, page, night, man, image, side, work, keying, elements, edition, part, foure, eebo, saile, rest, project, peeces, water, encoding, data, wind, title, head, end, goods, users, purposes, markup, letter, fire, place, losse, account

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:

was, were, is, be, had, being, did, are, have, having, been, encoded, taken, made, came, make, sent, shot, come, set, called, based, wounded, lost, said, let, given, -, named, brought, gave, fight, done, put, killed, give, fought, according, take, see, got, fell, doe, sunk, published, performed, making, know, do, represented

Proper Nouns

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

english, tcp, admirall, sea, dutch, ordnance, god, text, london, fleet, master, england, eebo, tei, enemy, captaine, oxford, iames, ship, proquest, phase, partnership, lord, creation, commander, vp, john, iohn, vice, turks, wee, ships, portugals, portugall, generall, transcribed, war, elizabeth, warre, online, men, maine, hath, fight, weddell, turkes, plimmouth, east, printed, michigan

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, our, they, we, his, them, it, i, her, he, us, him, you, your, my, she, me, thy, themselves, himself, ours, yours, vp, theirs, thee, h''arose

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?"

great, other, english, early, many, good, such, more, first, late, true, last, dutch, much, available, small, little, whole, top, second, next, textual, former, worthy, turkish, illegible, general, own, valiant, third, possible, most, memorable, keyboarded, financial, commercial, bloody, best, fore, strong, same, original, noble, naval, later, large, full, aforesaid, old, least

not, so, then, also, away, as, now, neere, very, out, off, up, therefore, well, thus, still, more, online, most, early, about, there, onely, yet, in, even, much, above, likewise, all, presently, over, almost, together, never, first, before, again, vs, usually, too, mainly, long, variously, truly, sometimes, respectfully, notably, no, indeed

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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