subject-netherlands-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 84 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 2,741,841 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 32,640 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:

great, king, one, made, men, time, prince, much, many, might, two, first, yet, states, make, may, will, without, english, now, also, shall, well, duke, good, town, part, place, sent, people, city, war, sea, count, souldiers, came, provinces, france, day, holland, taken, de, side, french, come, england, army, peace, others, enemy

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are The compleat history of the warrs of Flanders written in Italian by the learned and famous Cardinall Bentivoglio ; Englished by the Right Honorable Henry, Earl of Monmouth ; the whole work illustrated with many figures of the chief personages mentioned in this history., De rebus belgicis, or, The annals and history of the Low-Countrey-warrs wherein is manifested, that the United Netherlands are indebted for the glory of their conquests, to the valour of the English, under whose protection the poor distressed states, have exalted themselves to the title of the high and mighty ..., and De bello Belgico The history of the Low-Countrey warres / written in Latine by Famianus Strada ; in English by Sr. Rob. Stapylton..

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

united provinces, prince maurice, states general, don iohn, english books, early english, books online, next day, king philip, every one, monsieur de, mean time, count maurice, don john, two hundred, page images, creation partnership, text creation, one side, kings men, every day, one another, states generall, thousand men, greatest part, long time, great number, de la, three hundred, french king, great britain, india company, count egmont, make use, hundred thousand, chief city, low countries, reformed religion, characters represented, represented either, two thousand, image sets, tcp schema, one hundred, count de, many years, one thousand, thought fit, sir william, great store

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are Articles of peace, union, and confederation, concluded and agreed between His Highness, Oliver, Lord Protector of the common-wealth of England, Scotland & Ireland, and the dominions thereto belonging, and the Lords, the States General of the united Provinces of the Netherlands, old style, in the year of our Lord God, 1654 The letter sent by the States-General of the United Provinces of the Low Countreys to His Majesty, by their Trumpeter together with His Majesties answer to the said letter / translated out of French into English., and A memorial delivered to His Majesty (July 21/31 1664) from the Lord Van-Gogh, ambassador from the States General of the United Provinces. Translated into English. With the ansvver which His Sacred Majesty returned thereunto..

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, king, english, states, prince, majesty, sea, dutch, england, country, hollanders, people, french, duke, army, war, town, netherlands, treaty, trade, spaniards, lord, general, man, low, government, generall, france, city, state, spanish, provinces, enemy, countries, company, castle, world, souldiers, ships, nations, court, count, united, seas, river, parma, maurice, majesties, house, horse

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 great, and A reply of Sir George Downing Knight and Baronet, envoy extraordinary from His Majesty of Great-Britain, &c. to the remarks of the deputies of the Estates-General upon his memorial of December 20, 1664, old stile 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:

1. great - De rebus belgicis, or, The annals and history of the Low-Countrey-warrs wherein is manifested, that the United Netherlands are indebted for the glory of their conquests, to the valour of the English, under whose protection the poor distressed states, have exalted themselves to the title of the high and mighty ...
2. great - A trip to Holland being a description of the country, people and manners : as also some select observations on Amsterdam.
3. prince - The second part of the principles of art military, practised in the warres of the United Provinces consisting of the severall formes of battels, represented by the illustrious Maurice Prince of Orange of famous memorie, and His Highnesse Frederick Henry Prince of Orange, that is Captaine Generall of the Army of the high and mighty Lords the States Generall of the United Provinces : together with the order and forme of quartering, encamping, and approaching, in a warre offensive and defensive.

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:

1. great, king, did - De rebus belgicis, or, The annals and history of the Low-Countrey-warrs wherein is manifested, that the United Netherlands are indebted for the glory of their conquests, to the valour of the English, under whose protection the poor distressed states, have exalted themselves to the title of the high and mighty ...
2. said, king, majesty - Letters written by Sir William Temple during his being ambassador at The Hague, to the Earl of Arlington and Sir John Trevor, Secretaries of State to K. Charles II wherein are discovered many secrets hitherto concealed / published from the originals, under Sir William Temple''s own hand ; and dedicated to the Right Honourable Sir Thomas Littleton, Speaker of the House of Commons, by D. Jones, Gent.
3. towne, men, vpon - The triumphs of Nassau: or, A description and representation of all the victories both by land and sea, granted by God to the noble, high, and mightie lords, the Estates generall of the vnited Netherland Prouinces Vnder the conduct and command of his excellencie, Prince Maurice of Nassau. Translated out of French by W. Shute Gent.
4. king, low, ibid - De bello Belgico The history of the Low-Countrey warres / written in Latine by Famianus Strada ; in English by Sr. Rob. Stapylton.
5. men, town, shall - The commentaries of Sr. Francis Vere being diverse pieces of service, wherein he had command / written by himself in way of commentary ; published by William Dillingham ...

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, p., men, part, place, people, day, side, others, things, way, rest, reason, souldiers, man, kings, places, order, parts, number, manner, end, ships, enemies, nothing, years, thing, year, forces, provinces, horse, name, country, towns, peace, war, religion, money, death, thence, towne, self, occasion, night, arms, power, subjects, hand, hands, enemy

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, be, were, is, had, are, have, being, made, did, been, said, make, having, sent, do, came, taken, come, take, done, brought, put, give, thought, called, found, set, given, went, according, see, began, gave, has, left, say, go, took, lay, commanded, received, making, kept, let, concerning, know, send, resolved, fell

Proper Nouns

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

king, prince, l., states, duke, english, count, france, city, holland, england, town, sea, army, majesty, spain, de, orange, spaniards, lord, war, low, general, french, hollanders, enemy, generall, ●, dutch, princes, provinces, flanders, province, 〉, god, court, peace, sir, state, government, river, iohn, maurice, lords, tcp, philip, ◊, hath, don, netherlands

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, he, them, him, i, our, we, her, you, themselves, himself, my, your, she, us, me, its, one, theirs, ours, thy, vp, yours, thee, yt, mine, ''em, us''d, whereof, herself, itself, delf, ourselves, em, ian, hers, hee, vvith, severall, s, vnto, thēselues, march''d, l, hitherto, ●, trye

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, many, same, such, good, more, own, first, much, little, new, several, last, whole, most, greater, small, old, present, long, common, better, greatest, few, particular, full, french, next, least, able, strong, former, large, true, certain, second, spanish, best, high, english, ready, necessary, like, free, very, private, chief, general, late

not, so, then, very, more, as, also, now, well, much, there, out, up, most, only, therefore, likewise, yet, together, thereof, first, here, never, thus, in, away, rather, onely, off, ever, long, far, afterwards, still, before, too, again, almost, over, soon, especially, even, down, no, about, often, already, presently, all, formerly

Next steps

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