Distant Reader - subject-resurrection-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 10 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 243,797 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 24,379 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 93. 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:

shall, god, body, will, resurrection, christ, first, one, now, world, life, soul, dead, may, us, man, yet, must, things, men, bodies, lord, day, time, great, good, also, come, therefore, death, say, every, doctrine, made, new, reason, heaven, flesh, many, much, saith, earth, though, make, place, well, st, without, nature, rise

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are The resurrection of the dead and eternall judgement, or, The truth of the resurrection of the bodies both of good and bad at the last day asserted and proved by Gods word : also, the manner and order of their coming forth of their graves, as also, with what bodies they do arise : together with a discourse of the last judgement, and the finall conclusion of the whole world / by John Bunyan., The resurrection of the (same) body asserted, from the traditions of the heathens, the ancient Jews, and the primitive church with an answer to the objections brought against it / by Humphry Hody ..., and The earnest of our inheritance together with a description of the new heauen and the new earth, and a demonstration of the glorious resurrection of the bodie in the same substance. Preached at Pauls Crosse the second day of August. 1612. By Thomas Draxe Bachelour of Diuinity..

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

tells us, every one, humane body, shall rise, lord jesus, shall come, english books, early english, jesus christ, let vs, last day, god will, books online, shall see, every man, rising body, learned author, gods children, page images, text creation, let us, creation partnership, must needs, thousand years, come forth, first fruits, shall arise, right hand, text saith, glorious body, will raise, will make, church regenerate, tell us, another place, image sets, characters represented, first resurrection, new testament, tcp schema, old testament, dead shall, whole man, represented either, assures us, shall never, whole world, christ shall, humane person, general resurrection

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are The resurrection proved, or, The life to come demonstrated being a strange but true relation of what hapned to Mrs. Anna Atherton who lay in a trance 7 days : with her speech when she came to life / as it came from her brother Dr. Atherton ... The resurrection asserted in a sermon preached to the University of Oxford on Easter-day, 1679 / by John Wallis ..., and The doctrines of the resurrection and the reward to come, considered as the grand motives to an holy life. Discoursed of, from 1. Cor. XV. 58. / By the late pious and learned John Worthington, D.D...

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:

body, resurrection, god, world, christ, lord, life, tcp, soul, earth, dead, church, bodies, spirit, saints, men, man, doctrine, cor, book, years, words, witnesses, vers, truth, sunne, st., scripture, saviour, rewards, reason, punishments, power, person, parts, particles, opinion, new, millennium, matter, law, justice, judgment, judgement, jews, identity, heathens, haue, gods, glory

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 shall, and The resurrection of the dead and eternall judgement, or, The truth of the resurrection of the bodies both of good and bad at the last day asserted and proved by Gods word : also, the manner and order of their coming forth of their graves, as also, with what bodies they do arise : together with a discourse of the last judgement, and the finall conclusion of the whole world / by John Bunyan. 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?":

body, things, time, day, man, bodies, death, reason, life, men, p., t, thing, place, others, part, resurrection, nothing, nature, saints, words, self, truth, soul, glory, one, way, sin, work, end, works, word, souls, fire, manner, flesh, power, hath, heart, doth, sins, opinion, text, tho, author, parts, name, places, argument, state

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:

is, be, are, was, have, were, do, had, come, being, say, been, made, did, has, said, make, rise, see, done, let, according, know, raised, take, concerning, says, give, think, live, am, put, believe, go, called, tells, receive, hath, rising, given, written, raise, appear, having, taken, arise, tell, found, makes, brought

Proper Nouns

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

◊, 〉, 〈, god, resurrection, christ, world, lord, soul, doctrine, heaven, body, c., thou, dead, life, st., earth, men, cor, man, church, flesh, judgment, spirit, bodies, new, paul, book, jews, jesus, tcp, gods, hath, rom, john, text, faith, holy, saviour, power, christians, ye, humane, word, l., est, christian, apostle, mat

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, he, they, his, their, i, we, them, our, him, us, you, my, its, himself, me, thy, her, themselves, ''em, your, she, thee, one, em, ours, vp, theirs, ye, mine, itself, †, myself, herself, elias, ‖, yourself, urg''d, thou, ourselves, join''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?"

same, other, great, first, good, many, such, more, dead, own, last, true, whole, new, much, glorious, full, little, better, present, second, capable, saith, least, several, proper, wicked, certain, very, old, general, able, most, common, necessary, holy, former, plain, early, ancient, long, greatest, greater, particular, united, like, worthy, spiritual, humane, english

not, so, then, now, up, also, therefore, again, more, here, as, very, only, most, first, well, thus, yet, even, ever, out, down, together, much, onely, never, forth, all, there, that, is, ver, far, away, secondly, in, just, plainly, rather, indeed, no, before, too, always, off, long, thirdly, still, otherwise, else

Next steps

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