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Eric Lease Morgan Number of items in the collection; 'How big is my corpus?' ---------------------------------------------------------- 10 Average length of all items measured in words; "More or less, how big is each item?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 52626 Average readability score of all items (0 = difficult; 100 = easy) ------------------------------------------------------------------ 73 Top 50 statistically significant keywords; "What is my collection about?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5 man 5 Court 4 punishment 4 Mr. 4 John 4 England 3 time 3 St. 3 King 2 stock 2 prisoner 2 pillory 2 person 2 case 2 York 2 William 2 Thomas 2 State 2 Sir 2 Secretary 2 Scotland 2 Queen 2 Parliament 2 Old 2 New 2 Massachusetts 2 Lord 2 London 2 Henry 2 George 2 Boston 1 work 1 vincenne 1 thing 1 thief 1 stool 1 prison 1 place 1 parent 1 illustration 1 home 1 good 1 french 1 fault 1 english 1 ducking 1 drink 1 death 1 day 1 crime Top 50 lemmatized nouns; "What is discussed?" --------------------------------------------- 1354 man 1133 prison 1037 time 1032 prisoner 795 year 722 case 660 day 659 person 532 punishment 515 crime 506 life 500 woman 474 death 465 place 453 law 411 other 389 execution 385 way 385 part 382 child 375 people 373 work 344 hand 326 house 322 sentence 312 condition 309 number 280 offender 280 account 277 side 270 thing 265 body 264 court 263 order 260 town 259 criminal 256 offence 252 head 250 stock 237 gaol 233 room 233 book 232 pillory 226 country 225 murder 225 money 219 character 218 officer 217 friend 215 stool Top 50 proper nouns; "What are the names of persons or places?" -------------------------------------------------------------- 1992 _ 621 Newgate 564 Mr. 402 i. 320 King 265 England 243 ii 242 John 224 Bastile 206 Lord 202 Court 190 London 187 William 171 de 171 Mrs. 162 France 159 Paris 156 Louis 145 Sir 139 St. 138 State 122 Street 121 New 120 Henry 118 House 115 Queen 108 Dr. 95 Scotland 92 George 92 Boston 87 Prison 86 Secretary 85 Thomas 85 James 85 Charles 84 Parliament 84 Old 83 Society 83 . 82 Church 81 York 81 Act 77 God 69 ye 69 Wakefield 67 Duke 66 Salem 66 Duc 64 Bank 63 De Top 50 personal pronouns nouns; "To whom are things referred?" ------------------------------------------------------------- 4829 he 4097 it 2622 they 1578 him 1487 them 1085 i 966 we 909 she 423 you 370 himself 362 her 233 themselves 227 us 191 me 62 itself 56 herself 32 one 29 ourselves 29 myself 12 theirs 8 his 7 ''s 4 yourself 3 thee 3 ours 2 yt 2 thy 2 oneself 2 mine 2 hers 1 yours 1 ye 1 thyself 1 i''m 1 express"--i 1 cat"--we Top 50 lemmatized verbs; "What do things do?" --------------------------------------------- 22116 be 5435 have 1469 do 1207 make 887 take 743 say 706 find 671 give 558 see 519 go 514 know 479 come 398 get 373 bring 358 pass 354 keep 350 become 325 pay 321 leave 321 follow 307 commit 300 call 291 send 284 put 279 set 266 show 263 use 258 hang 257 stand 256 carry 255 try 244 place 242 condemn 231 receive 225 hold 223 live 222 sentence 220 suffer 219 seem 217 write 216 obtain 214 appear 213 tell 212 think 211 steal 198 execute 186 lead 185 convict 184 remain 177 die Top 50 lemmatized adjectives and adverbs; "How are things described?" --------------------------------------------------------------------- 2913 not 1097 more 894 so 775 other 724 many 694 great 640 only 617 well 590 most 536 first 529 out 514 up 510 much 484 good 470 very 470 long 469 same 450 as 416 then 404 own 402 still 398 such 372 now 371 old 356 last 340 bad 336 also 305 public 300 never 289 even 287 there 280 down 260 too 258 few 255 new 251 little 250 often 246 certain 245 less 234 far 227 young 227 again 224 once 222 large 221 high 210 thus 206 several 205 off 202 however 196 early Top 50 lemmatized superlative adjectives; "How are things described to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 107 good 104 least 101 most 71 bad 50 great 28 high 25 early 24 low 20 Most 19 late 13 slight 11 eld 9 manif 8 strong 8 old 7 large 6 near 5 wild 5 heavy 4 wise 4 vile 4 small 4 mean 4 fine 4 faint 4 common 4 clear 3 young 3 simple 3 long 3 keen 3 full 2 weak 2 thin 2 shrewd 2 rich 2 proud 2 new 2 loud 2 lines:-- 2 less 2 gross 2 grave 2 easy 2 deep 2 dear 2 close 2 clever 2 cheap 2 black Top 50 lemmatized superlative adverbs; "How do things do to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 489 most 21 well 18 least 3 worst 2 guilty:--sentenced 1 infest 1 hard Top 50 Internet domains; "What Webbed places are alluded to in this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4 www.gutenberg.org 2 books.google.com 2 archive.org Top 50 URLs; "What is hyperlinked from this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------- 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50520/50520-h/50520-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50520/50520-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/29117/29117-h/29117-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/29117/29117-h.zip 1 http://books.google.com/books?id=pV9HAQAAMAAJ&hl=en 1 http://books.google.com 1 http://archive.org/details/historyromanceof06grif 1 http://archive.org Top 50 email addresses; "Who are you gonna call?" ------------------------------------------------- Top 50 positive assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-noun?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4 men are not 4 people do not 4 prisoner is not 4 prisoners are not 4 prisoners were not 4 prisoners were still 3 persons found guilty 3 prison is not 3 prisoners do not 3 prisoners were more 3 punishment was generally 3 women found guilty 2 _ see _ 2 case is different 2 case was clearly 2 case was still 2 child is obstinate 2 children do not 2 crime does heredity 2 crime is largely 2 crime is not 2 crime was forgery 2 days were not 2 execution took place 2 house was empty 2 law did not 2 life is more 2 life was no 2 man does not 2 man is more 2 men are criminals 2 men are more 2 men do not 2 newgate was not 2 newgate was still 2 people are not 2 people are quite 2 people do wrong 2 persons did not 2 persons had long 2 place was quite 2 places set apart 2 prison are not 2 prison was always 2 prisoners are as 2 prisoners are still 2 prisoners were often 2 prisons are not 2 punishment does not 2 punishment was more Top 50 negative assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-no|not-noun?" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 cases has not again 1 child is not yet 1 children are not likely 1 crime is not so 1 crimes were not very 1 days were not so 1 law is not only 1 life was no longer 1 life was no more 1 man has not wit 1 man was not yet 1 men are not free 1 men are not wicked 1 men are not yet 1 men have not merely 1 newgate had no glass 1 newgate was not certain 1 others has no sanction 1 others were not less 1 people have not much 1 people see no reason 1 person was not so 1 persons are not equally 1 persons had no sense 1 prison are not readily 1 prison are not there 1 prison is not so 1 prisoner has no such 1 prisoner is not that 1 prisoners are no more 1 prisoners are not different 1 prisoners had no longer 1 prisoners have no access 1 prisons are not self 1 prisons were not altogether 1 punishment does not merely 1 punishment was not original 1 sentence has not yet 1 time are not distinguishable 1 time are not first 1 time is not so 1 women are not ignorant 1 women are not industrially 1 work is not worth A rudimentary bibliography -------------------------- id = 57689 author = Adler, Felix title = The Punishment of Children date = keywords = Spencer; case; child; fault; home; parent; punishment summary = shadow of the fault to darken the whole nature of the child. When punishment is necessary let it come upon the child like the action rewards, parents contribute to pervert the character of their children child the natural penalties of its transgression_, of causing it to avoid evil, of building up the moral nature of the child, by leading it the natural penalties, though the child knows what they are and perhaps In order that a parent shall properly influence a child''s character, it Take the case, for instance, of obstinacy; a child is told to do a between the different causes of falsehood in the young child, in order cause which has tempted the child in any given case. the objection of the parent who says, "I know the character of my child; out by saying that not one parent in a thousand knows his child''s id = 29117 author = Andrews, William title = Bygone Punishments date = keywords = Andrews; April; August; Church; Earl; England; George; Halifax; Hall; Henry; John; King; London; Lord; March; Mr.; Old; Scotland; Sir; St.; Thomas; William; ducking; illustration; man; pillory; punishment; stock; stool summary = those "good old times" little regard was paid for human life. At Nottingham in the olden time the culprits were usually taken to St. Mary''s Church, where the officiating clergyman preached their funeral "The habit of gibbeting or hanging in chains the body of the executed rare book: "Halifax and its Gibbet Law placed in a True Light." It was [Illustration: PILLORY, WHIPPING-POST, AND STOCKS, WALLINGFORD.] In the middle ages frequently a pillory, whipping-post, and stocks were illustration of one of these old-time finger-pillories. This old-time instrument of punishment was more generally used in North common law might place persons in the stocks to keep them in hold, but remain the old parish stocks near to the church, and bear the date of Notices of whipping sometimes appear in old church books. attention to the old-time punishments of the town, and the first or brank, formerly used with the ducking-stool, as a punishment for id = 16419 author = Brooks, Henry M. (Henry Mason) title = The Olden Time Series, Vol. 5: Some Strange and Curious Punishments Gleanings Chiefly from Old Newspapers of Boston and Salem, Massachusetts date = keywords = Boston; Court; England; Gazette; John; Massachusetts; Mr.; New; Pounds; Salem; Thomas; York; punishment summary = recorded of the old English law of hanging the remains of executed Punishment for wearing long hair in New England. Law in England and well Executed it wou''d in a little Time prove the sentence of the Court, was punished by being publicly ducked in copying this account says that the "crime is old, but the punishment Curious list of punishments in the early days of New England. State Street on two several days, be confined in Prison for the term Sentences by the Supreme Judicial Court at Salem, Nov. 18, 1786. sentenced to pay said Perkins £18-4-0, and be whipped 25 stripes. goods of John Brooks, was sentenced to pay said Brooks £16-8-0, Salem, sentenced to be severely whipped." criminal laws of England at the time, and the number of capital Called to the place of Execution in the 39th year of my age, I id = 43986 author = Devon, James title = The Criminal & the Community date = keywords = Act; CHAPTER; Court; Glasgow; Parliament; Police; Scotland; Secretary; State; case; crime; drink; man; person; place; prison; prisoner; time; work summary = prison--Crime resulting from insanity--Case of theft--Of lived and worked among the masses of the people knows better. In Scotland there is no difficulty in freeing insane persons from prison. X 1.--A man is brought to prison for the first time charged with a series Mental powers that may be sufficient to enable a man to work and live in for a man cannot be at the same time working outside to support his family the offenders in many cases find themselves in prison for the first time His work is to do the prisoners good in a way they can understand; and he offences in prison, and the governor has power in minor cases to deal with as usually the short-time prisoner is not a person of means, his position The position of the man who has been in prison is not so bad as that of id = 34005 author = Earle, Alice Morse title = Curious Punishments of Bygone Days date = keywords = Boston; Court; England; God; John; Massachusetts; Mr.; New; Puritan; Virginia; York; day; english; man; pillory; punishment; stock summary = old-time laws, punishments and penalties has evoked this volume. writer lived in the days when the pillory, stocks and whipping-post against the men of the day in punishment for real crimes and offenses. "engines of punishment," such as the stocks, bilboes, pillory, brank, restraining evil--stocks for men, a ducking-stool for women, and a pound Pillory, a pair of Stocks, a Whipping Post and a Ducking-Stool in such damages, the woman shall be punished by Ducking, and if the slander be Writing of punishments of bygone days, an English rhymester says: officer at a town meeting" was ordered to stand two hours in the pillory Instances of punishment in Boston by the pillory of both men and women or three days in prison, he was set an hour at the whipping post with a In 1639 three Boston women received this form of public punishment; of id = 46746 author = Griffiths, Arthur title = The Chronicles of Newgate, vol. 2/2 date = keywords = Bailey; Bank; Calcraft; Committee; Commons; Court; Criminal; Dodd; Dr.; England; Fauntleroy; Fry; Gaol; George; Government; House; James; John; King; Lane; London; Lord; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; Newgate; Old; Prison; Queen; Secretary; Sir; Society; St.; Street; Turner; Wakefield; William; prisoner; time summary = State of crime on opening new gaol--Newgate full--Executions very but in the end Day was sentenced to two years'' imprisonment in Newgate, failed to convict and punish prisoners charged with unnatural crimes. those in other London prisons, for Newgate was not the only place of White Cross Street prison, Newgate continued to be a reproach to those the female prisoners in Newgate."[57] These devoted persons gave between prisoners and their friends should take place at stated times, change had taken place in Newgate since the passing of the prison pass letters to the female prisoners; and the men could also at any time the lamentable condition of the prisons of the city of London,--Newgate, not the last prisoners by many who passed through Newgate charged with which took place at another prison than Newgate, is rather beyond the COO, Thomas, case of, over twenty years a prisoner in Newgate, i. id = 50520 author = Griffiths, Arthur title = Early French Prisons Le Grand and Le Petit Châtelets; Vincennes; The Bastile; Loches; The Galleys; Revolutionary Prisons date = keywords = Bastile; Cardinal; Charles; Châtelet; Court; Duc; Duke; France; Henry; King; Louis; Madame; Mars; Mazarin; Medicis; Paris; Parliament; Queen; Richelieu; Saint; St.; State; XIV; french; man; vincenne summary = King''s prison-house, the royal gaol and penitentiary. "The King," says Comines, "had ordered several cruel prisons to be until within three years of the death of the King, who, after a long person and handing him over to Louis XI, who had claimed the prisoner. King Louis XII of France, and his second queen, Anne of Brittany. the Armagnacs held the Bastile and the person of the king''s eldest the new King, was no more than nine years of age, and once again France this favor came in person to Paris to thank the King. the return of the King to Paris he should leave the Bastile. King with great reluctance signed an order for the arrest of Cinq Mars, part played by the two great prisons, Vincennes and the Bastile, and prisoner" with him to Paris; to make the long journey across France id = 37650 author = Mandeville, Bernard title = An Enquiry into the Causes of the Frequent Executions at Tyburn (1725) date = keywords = Felons; Law; Mandeville; Men; Tyburn; University; death; good; man; person; thief; thing; time summary = before, Jonathan Wild, self-proclaimed "Thief-Catcher General of _Great many pamphlets of the time concerned with the criminal and the lower Mandeville''s suggestion that the bodies of the executed be turned over J., _Hanging not punishment enough, for Murtherers, High-way Men, and that if he who takes Money for stolen Goods is a principal Felon, and appear in open Court, and speak before a Judge, are terrible Things to stole from a Man that is of vast Concern to him, and yet of no Use but now I have been writing, I have heard Men of Worth and good Sense come stolen Goods, even tho'' there was no express Law against it, is, on many Stealing, but likewise makes it Felony, knowingly to buy stolen Goods; publick Good and common Security, in which he has a Share. _Of Regulations concerning_ FELONS _in Prison, and the good Effects id = 59287 author = Walton, Bryce title = Freeway date = keywords = Anna; Freeway; Stan summary = Stan wanted to scream at the big sixteen-cylinder Special to go faster. "My wife''s sick," Stan said. Stan said, "I wanted to use his phone to try to get a doctor to examine "I know," Stan said. "The car''s okay," Stan said. Stan got out and shoved past the old man. Behind the man, Stan saw the kid. "I''d like to use your phone, please," Stan said. Anna may die now, Stan thought as he stood there bent over a little, "Get up," Stan yelled into the man''s face. "But what''s the use?" Stan said. "But being on the Freeway," Stan said, "they''ll catch up with us! "Stan!" Anna said sharply. "I don''t want to run away from it," Stan said. "You''re not running away from anything," the old man said. Stan looked into the old man''s face a long moment. Stan finally nodded and took Anna''s arm and they started toward the