Distant Reader - subject-poor-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 33 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 171,116 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 5,185 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 86. 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:

poor, will, may, shall, work, text, great, one, trade, many, much, people, now, good, tcp, made, england, men, every, time, manufactures, nation, make, us, english, also, god, first, things, give, city, well, without, must, others, london, kingdom, might, yet, persons, better, early, eebo, children, want, way, man, able, houses, take

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are Some proposals for the imployment of the poor, and for the prevention of idleness and the consequence thereof, begging a practice so dishonourable to the nation, and to the Christian religion : in a letter to a friend / by T.F., An essay on the state of England in relation to its trade, its poor, and its taxes, for carrying on the present war against France by John Cary, merchant in Bristoll., and Essays about the poor, manufactures, trade, plantations, & immorality and of the excellency and divinity of inward light, demonstrated from the attributes of God and the nature of mans soul, as well as from the testimony of the Holy Scriptures / by John Bellers..

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

early english, english books, books online, poor people, text creation, creation partnership, page images, thousand pounds, early works, image sets, tcp schema, characters represented, represented either, many times, every one, poor children, without asking, commercial purposes, encoded text, pfs batch, markup reviewed, creative commons, online text, iv tiff, asking permission, text transcribed, financial support, institutions providing, tcp assigned, proquest page, encoded edition, providing financial, xml conversion, image set, tiff page, work described, images scanned, bit group, batch review, per annum, textual changes, will never, gap elements, mona logarbo, woollen manufactures, great quantities, think fit, now take, shall think, eng poor

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are All things be dear but poor mens labour; or, the sad complaint of poor people. Being a true relation of the dearness of all kinds of food, to the great grief and sorrow of many thousands in this nation. Likewise, the uncharitableness of rich men to the poor. This song was begun at Worcester, the middle at Shrewsbury, the end at Coventry. / By L. W. To the tune of, Hold buckle and thong together. The case of the city of London, in reference to debt to the orphans, and others., and To the Kings Most Excellent Majestie the humble address of poor distressed prisoners for debt..

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, poor, kingdom, trade, work, nation, london, god, city, poore, people, parliament, manufactures, lord, land, fathers, early, corporation, commons, cloth, war, text, stock, statute, spirit, sathan, product, pro, plantations, petitioners, persons, parish, office, men, mat, lords, light, laws, law, kingdome, ireland, interest, information, humphrey, house, highness, england, employment, country, cor

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 poor, and A breviat of some proposals prepared to be offered to the great wisdom of the nation, the King''s Most Excellent Majesty, and both houses of Parliament for the speedy restoring the woollen manufacture by a method practiced in other nations ... / by R. Haines. 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?":

work, text, people, time, things, others, men, way, nation, man, t, books, texts, persons, part, children, works, places, money, home, houses, years, xml, images, thing, reason, want, hath, nothing, day, times, characters, power, end, image, charge, page, wealth, place, person, advantage, number, interest, commodities, trade, edition, terms, keying, eebo, care

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, are, have, were, was, do, being, been, said, made, make, had, give, take, given, set, done, put, did, come, work, encoded, think, let, see, know, bring, according, taken, receive, found, pay, having, keep, brought, get, live, prevent, making, say, go, sent, want, based, supply, consider, am, paid, means

Proper Nouns

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

poor, trade, england, tcp, god, city, london, manufactures, kingdom, english, parliament, hath, parish, nation, text, lord, house, law, wool, tei, labour, eebo, men, stock, 〉, corporation, office, ◊, foreign, c., commons, cloth, persons, oxford, 〈, ireland, creation, proquest, phase, partnership, land, laws, children, transcribed, christ, john, ye, houses, act, plantations

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, their, they, them, i, our, we, his, he, us, you, him, themselves, its, your, my, me, her, she, himself, thy, thee, ours, ye, theirs, one, whereof, ourselves, itself, vp, vnto, serueth, l, it''s, hitherto

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?"

such, poor, other, great, many, more, good, own, same, able, much, first, early, better, little, english, true, several, greater, common, fit, whole, general, available, necessary, rich, least, present, last, due, most, idle, less, like, large, best, late, few, textual, former, private, honourable, new, small, certain, particular, honest, second, old, worth

not, so, now, then, more, also, very, as, up, well, much, only, out, here, therefore, thereof, in, most, yet, first, there, never, abroad, rather, thus, ever, too, on, online, again, even, better, soon, especially, off, otherwise, away, thereby, likewise, else, indeed, far, generally, down, already, therein, still, together, once, less

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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