Distant Reader - subject-regicides-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 12 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 224,809 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 18,734 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 87. 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:

king, lord, shall, mr, court, one, will, say, sir, parliament, act, bar, guilty, may, time, lords, prisoner, must, thing, day, death, law, john, thomas, person, know, god, treason, made, man, first, now, kings, england, hand, justice, many, great, persons, authority, several, every, words, commons, jury, might, done, house, majesty, self

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are An exact and most impartial accompt of the indictment, arraignment, trial, and judgment (according to law) of twenty nine regicides, the murtherers of His Late Sacred Majesty of most glorious memory begun at Hicks-Hall on Tuesday, the 9th of October, 1660, and continued (at the Sessions-House in the Old-Bayley) until Friday, the nineteenth of the same moneth : together with a summary of the dark and horrid decrees of the caballists, preperatory to that hellish fact exposed to view for the reader''s satisfaction, and information of posterity., The cry of royal innocent blood heard and answered being a true and impartial account of Gods extraordinary and signal judgments upon regicides : with an historical relation of the deposing, murthering, and assasinating of several kings of England, Scotland, France, &c. ..., and Regicides, no saints nor martyrs freely expostulated with the publishers of Ludlow''s third volume, as to the truth of things and characters : with a touch at Amyntor''s cavils against our king''s curing the evil, and the thirtieth of January fast : a supplement to the Just defence of the royal martyr / by the same author..

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

high court, chief baron, lord chief, six hundred, one thousand, thousand six, english books, early english, high treason, books online, sir william, first day, hugh peters, sir thomas, kings death, authority aforesaid, parliament assembled, early works, king charles, late king, take notice, humbly conceive, several times, blessed memory, excellent majesty, late majesty, last day, king henry, standest indicted, kings head, stands indicted, john jones, sir henry, pro confesso, god send, art now, page images, john carew, hardress waller, sir hardress, shall find, next day, now arraigned, good deliverance, imperial crown, peter temple, plead guilty, thousand pounds, thomas scot, taken pro

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are Die Veneris, 18 Maii, 1660. Upon complaint this day made by the Commons, it is ordered by the Lords in Parliament assembled, that all these persons, viz. ... The Most vile and lamentable confession of Hugh Peters of all his bloody advices given to the late Oliver Cromwel, touching all the horrid murders committed upon those martyrs whose names are all herein specified, immediately after his apprehension neer Horsly-down, Sept.4. Together with a conference between him and Sir Henry Martin, now in the Tower of London. Sing hey homy honey, my heart shall never rue, twenty four traytors now for a penny, and into the bargain Hugh., and The speech of Maj. Gen. Harison, upon his arraignment, tryal, and condemnation; with the sentence of death pronounced against him, to be hang''d, drawn, and quarter''d As also the speeches of Alderman Tich Mr. burn, Hugh Peters, Col. Axtel, and Col. Lilburn; at the sessions house in the Old Bayley, before the most honourable Lords, and others His Majesties commissioners of Oyer and Terminer; upon the reading of the charge and indictment of high-treason, that they had wilfully, maliciously, and trayterously, advised, abetted, assisted, contrived, and compassed the death of our late dread soveraign Charles the first by the grace of God of ever blessed memory King of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, defender of the faith, &c..

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:

parliament, john, lord, king, william, majesty, ludlow, lords, life, court, authority, army, act, york, world, warrant, treason, town, thomas, text, son, sir, royal, queen, prisoner, prince, peters, person, people, party, nation, mr., majesties, law, justice, jury, iohn, indictment, house, high, henry, government, god, gentleman, gent, friends, execution, esq, english, england

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 king, and By the King. A proclamation for the apprehension of Edmund Ludlow, commonly called, Colonel Ludlow. 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, thing, day, death, person, words, man, king, hand, self, persons, clerk, kings, jury, people, charge, others, nothing, evidence, things, place, name, court, power, text, way, part, hath, matter, life, execution, men, order, case, manner, hands, gentlemen, business, tho, lordships, none, years, word, notice, times, t, purpose, heart, witnesses, money

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, did, had, were, said, are, do, say, been, being, know, made, done, called, heard, take, make, came, speak, put, give, see, am, come, brought, according, go, desire, taken, having, told, think, tell, remember, hear, aforesaid, went, read, given, saw, let, sworn, set, hold, hope, bar, sent

Proper Nouns

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

king, lord, mr., court, sir, parliament, lords, act, bar, john, prisoner, god, thomas, law, england, treason, justice, commons, majesty, authority, william, henry, house, c., edward, county, l., peters, iohn, thou, high, london, gentleman, army, charles, warrant, robert, duke, richard, harrison, esq, coun, ch, city, hath, crown, judgment, cook, tryal, gent

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?"

i, it, you, he, his, they, my, him, their, them, your, we, me, our, himself, us, themselves, thy, her, she, its, thee, one, theirs, ye, mine, yours, ours, hey, ay, whereof, ting''d, thirty, there, rais''d, oblig''d, ha

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, guilty, same, many, several, great, more, own, first, good, late, little, next, much, last, true, most, present, former, whole, like, pleased, long, new, best, full, common, particular, better, very, sure, few, early, english, second, high, due, respective, least, bloody, old, general, further, greater, aforesaid, instrumental, clear, lawful, short

not, so, then, up, there, now, very, as, most, never, here, more, out, only, well, further, therefore, in, together, off, much, first, ever, before, truly, far, again, too, over, humbly, thus, away, all, yet, on, down, indeed, thereof, otherwise, also, likewise, whatsoever, long, rather, afterwards, accordingly, no, even, at, about

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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