Distant Reader - subject-popishPlot-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 149 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 2,133,955 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 14,321 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:

mr, lord, one, will, king, sir, time, may, now, say, man, plot, shall, great, made, house, first, know, make, thing, never, came, evidence, yet, two, much, well, told, might, good, must, lords, religion, god, church, men, tcp, us, come, oates, text, many, witnesses, take, several, day, give, england, self, true

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are The tryal of William Viscount Stafford for high treason in conspiring the death of the King, the extirpation of the Protestant religion, the subversion of the government, and introduction of popery into this realm : upon an impeachment by the knights, citizens, and burgesses in Parliament assembled, in the name of themselves and of all the commons of England : begun in Westminster-Hall the 30. day of November 1680, and continued until the 7. of December following, on which day judgment of high treason was given upon him : with the manner of his execution the 29. of the same month., The arraignment, tryal and condemnation of Stephen Colledge for high-treason in conspiring the death of the king, the levying of war, and the subversion of the government : before the Right Honourable Sr. Francis North, Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common-Pleas, and other commissioners of Oyer and Terminer and Gaol Delivery held at the city of Oxon for the county of Oxon, the 17th and 18th of August 1681., and The arraignment, tryal and condemnation of Stephen Colledge for high-treason, in conspiring the death of the King, the levying of war, and the subversion of the government Before the Right Honourable Sir Francis North, Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common-Pleas, and other commissioners of oyer and terminer and gaol-delivery held at the city of Oxon. for the county of Oxon. the 17th and 18th of August 1681. I do appoint Thomas Basset and John Fish to print the arraignment, tryal and condemnation of Stephen Colledge, and that no others presume to print the same. Fr. North..

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

english books, early english, books online, lord stafford, popish plot, creation partnership, text creation, page images, sir edmundbury, protestant religion, sir edmund, edmundbury godfrey, sir william, tcp schema, image sets, represented either, characters represented, sir george, will never, high treason, lord chief, several times, lord high, sir john, one mr, take notice, lord aston, never saw, sir thomas, next day, great deal, high steward, let us, two witnesses, now take, will remain, without asking, one copy, due credit, first edition, one thing, one word, language title, displayable xml, characters will, pfs batch, markup reviewed, tcp assigned, accurately transcribed, public domain

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are A proclamation for a publick general fast throrowout the realm of Scotland A poem as it was presented to His Sacred Majesty on the discovery of the plott, written by a lady of quality., and A true narrative of that grand Jesuite Father Andrews who lived at Hardwick in Monmouthshire. How he fled into a large wood to escape justice. How he came to an untimely end, and the manner of his burial. In a letter to a friend in London..

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, lord, plot, church, mr., religion, house, evidence, majesty, popish, papists, oates, government, god, world, witnesses, sir, duke, parliament, ireland, dugdale, court, city, tei, prince, power, letter, pope, people, nation, justice, jesuits, informant, early, body, truth, protestant, prance, man, london, l''estrange, english, england, tryal, stafford, lords, doctor, council, commons

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 mr, and Mr. Smyth''s discovery of the Popish sham-plot in Ireland, contrived to correspond with their sham-plot in England by which it appears that it has been the joynt design of the papists in both kingdoms, to make people believe their real plot to be a sham-plot, and their sham-plot a real plot : necessary for the information of all His Majesties Protestant subjects. 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, man, thing, evidence, t, day, self, nothing, men, things, way, body, matter, text, people, others, person, religion, words, hand, part, place, persons, witnesses, reason, truth, hath, life, king, design, p., texts, years, work, letter, death, lordship, order, money, name, characters, end, times, books, business, purpose, account, house, question, one

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, is, have, had, were, did, said, are, do, been, say, being, made, know, make, came, told, come, take, give, went, see, done, says, go, tell, has, am, think, saw, found, given, taken, let, believe, heard, brought, put, knew, sent, speak, having, gave, ''s, find, prove, does, call, according

Proper Nouns

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

mr., lord, sir, king, l., c., plot, house, god, lords, oates, tcp, church, england, j., dugdale, dr., papists, colledge, court, london, parliament, ireland, stafford, majesty, law, popish, justice, protestant, religion, english, john, treason, h., government, witnesses, william, godfrey, oxford, hath, witness, tryal, commons, mrs., st., gen., council, prisoner, oath, rome

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?"

he, i, it, his, you, him, they, my, their, them, me, we, your, our, himself, her, she, us, themselves, its, thy, ''em, thee, theirs, one, yours, mine, ours, ''s, ye, l, em, hers, vvhat, us''d, vvith, s, yourself, shou''d, herself, prov''d, myself, itself, au, †, ‖, whereof, thou, ian, dy''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, great, same, own, many, more, several, good, true, first, last, whole, much, little, guilty, very, early, next, general, present, late, particular, english, least, false, second, ready, best, better, most, available, sure, popish, greater, certain, honest, new, full, former, possible, old, short, further, due, innocent, able, long, clear, fit

not, so, then, now, very, never, as, only, there, here, up, well, out, more, just, ever, therefore, again, yet, in, most, also, too, much, first, over, before, away, down, together, thus, on, far, off, still, all, even, further, long, no, afterwards, about, indeed, rather, once, else, often, likewise, n''t, soon

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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