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Eric Lease Morgan Number of items in the collection; 'How big is my corpus?' ---------------------------------------------------------- 14 Average length of all items measured in words; "More or less, how big is each item?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 71 Average readability score of all items (0 = difficult; 100 = easy) ------------------------------------------------------------------ 77 Top 50 statistically significant keywords; "What is my collection about?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 9 man 7 word 5 time 5 sentence 5 good 5 Mr. 4 thing 4 like 4 great 4 form 4 Shakespeare 4 John 4 English 4 England 3 subject 3 paragraph 3 art 3 York 3 Sir 3 Plato 3 New 3 God 2 write 2 work 2 verb 2 past 2 nature 2 mean 2 love 2 life 2 follow 2 exercise 2 description 2 clause 2 argument 2 Use 2 United 2 Thomas 2 Stevenson 2 States 2 Socrates 2 Rome 2 Professor 2 Old 2 Literature 2 Greek 2 Europe 2 Burke 2 Athenians 1 wrong Top 50 lemmatized nouns; "What is discussed?" --------------------------------------------- 2603 man 2058 word 1469 sentence 1394 time 1370 life 1119 thing 972 form 929 subject 858 part 848 way 816 paragraph 808 nature 788 thought 769 person 750 mind 743 day 733 idea 719 one 701 fact 682 place 677 point 655 reader 638 world 637 story 636 use 628 character 626 power 616 order 586 effect 573 case 567 purpose 561 action 554 example 545 art 536 book 532 writer 531 work 510 matter 497 hand 492 line 491 kind 487 side 481 question 480 sense 478 argument 472 language 471 writing 470 end 466 interest 465 description Top 50 proper nouns; "What are the names of persons or places?" -------------------------------------------------------------- 20118 _ 1034 | 415 Shakespeare 326 e 294 Macbeth 271 Strep 267 U 266 English 251 Mr. 212 Richard 203 Lear 192 New 192 God 191 Action 187 Cæsar 180 Sidenote 162 Socrates 161 John 160 Sir 151 Plato 145 England 144 Fol 138 Nemesis 136 King 136 Drama 131 thou 128 c. 126 Milton 125 York 118 Soc 107 George 107 Character 107 Brutus 105 Rome 98 Plot 98 Dramatic 97 Greek 96 Story 94 q 93 bee 93 Shylock 92 Macaulay 92 Literature 91 Movement 91 Criticism 89 thei 89 doe 89 Antonio 87 Passion 86 United Top 50 personal pronouns nouns; "To whom are things referred?" ------------------------------------------------------------- 9331 it 6267 he 5362 i 4706 you 3977 we 3294 they 1970 them 1730 him 1232 me 1149 us 784 she 523 himself 479 itself 305 themselves 277 her 268 one 165 yourself 155 myself 134 ourselves 63 yours 63 herself 43 ii 42 thee 23 ours 22 mine 21 theirs 16 hymself 16 his 9 oneself 8 thyself 6 ''s 4 ye 4 theim 3 yourselves 3 ay 3 ''em 2 hers 1 wordsworth:-- 1 with:-- 1 whence 1 west,--they 1 vp 1 verbs.+--a 1 tympanum 1 trodden 1 thou 1 sik 1 result:= 1 pelf 1 o- Top 50 lemmatized verbs; "What do things do?" --------------------------------------------- 36395 be 8979 have 3552 do 2444 make 1725 say 1506 use 1498 see 1493 give 1286 know 1188 take 1169 come 1150 find 1137 write 1100 go 935 follow 798 call 784 think 659 become 658 tell 618 seem 582 show 568 look 532 bring 526 mean 502 speak 501 begin 488 get 483 read 431 express 425 let 416 keep 414 leave 409 feel 405 set 405 hear 396 fall 382 put 379 stand 376 pass 373 consider 361 learn 360 understand 359 live 358 appear 327 love 324 ask 312 need 311 bear 310 believe 305 hold Top 50 lemmatized adjectives and adverbs; "How are things described?" --------------------------------------------------------------------- 6810 not 2367 so 2133 more 1867 other 1423 great 1410 good 1390 first 1354 then 1330 only 1207 well 1070 such 1036 most 1004 up 977 very 977 many 945 as 922 now 847 out 835 same 821 much 789 own 784 long 780 even 677 little 665 also 664 never 657 old 605 general 579 common 578 high 573 too 557 whole 557 here 552 thus 549 last 538 always 532 far 523 often 513 again 510 just 503 true 500 down 497 still 486 human 463 different 447 less 433 yet 424 new 418 however 406 once Top 50 lemmatized superlative adjectives; "How are things described to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 406 good 245 most 191 least 163 great 97 high 46 bad 45 Most 30 strong 28 noble 25 simple 22 common 21 low 20 early 19 fine 18 slight 18 near 18 manif 16 large 15 easy 15 deep 14 wise 13 small 13 rich 12 old 12 l 11 mean 11 late 10 wide 10 sure 10 long 9 eld 9 close 9 anap 8 tall 8 able 7 true 7 sweet 7 full 7 bitter 6 clear 6 brave 5 weak 5 pure 5 keen 5 heavy 5 grand 5 fair 5 dear 5 dark 4 young Top 50 lemmatized superlative adverbs; "How do things do to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 791 most 67 well 30 least 3 worst 3 goethe 2 lest 2 hard 2 bothe 1 strangest 1 soon 1 near 1 greatest 1 eldest Top 50 Internet domains; "What Webbed places are alluded to in this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 www.gutenberg.net 1 gallica.bnf.fr.< Top 50 URLs; "What is hyperlinked from this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------- 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/8/0/9/28097/28097-h/28097-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/8/0/9/28097/28097-h.zip 1 http://gallica.bnf.fr.

Top 50 email addresses; "Who are you gonna call?" ------------------------------------------------- Top 50 positive assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-noun?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 45 _ is _ 35 _ means _ 26 _ see _ 18 _ were _ 13 _ have _ 11 _ are _ 11 _ do _ 11 _ was _ 9 _ is not 8 _ had _ 7 _ do n''t 7 _ does not 7 _ write _ 6 _ go _ 6 one does not 6 time goes on 5 _ am _ 5 _ are not 5 _ be _ 5 _ come _ 5 _ did _ 5 _ done _ 5 _ got _ 5 _ is often 5 man does not 5 men are mortal 5 men do not 5 nature is not 4 _ are examples 4 _ began _ 4 _ does n''t 4 _ has _ 4 _ is generally 4 _ is here 4 _ make _ 4 _ speaks _ 4 subject is not 3 _ begin _ 3 _ give _ 3 _ is also 3 _ is frequently 3 _ is more 3 _ let _ 3 _ seeing _ 3 _ speak _ 3 _ takes _ 3 _ writing _ 3 facts are not 3 life is so 3 man is not Top 50 negative assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-no|not-noun?" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 _ does not _ 1 _ are not only 1 _ are not ordinarily 1 _ does not vaguely 1 _ has no antecedent 1 _ have no apostrophe 1 _ is no better 1 _ is not likely 1 _ is not so 1 characters are not something 1 day gives no inkling 1 facts are not necessary 1 facts are not thus 1 idea is not really 1 ideas are not clear 1 ideas were not well 1 life being no more 1 life has not even 1 life is not life 1 man do not suddenly 1 man had no difficulty 1 man had no such 1 man has no such 1 man is not only 1 man writes not well 1 men are not all 1 men are not always 1 men were no impassioned 1 men were not soldiers 1 mind is not especially 1 mind is not only 1 nature having no test 1 nature is no sentimentalist,--does 1 nature is not generous 1 nature is not less 1 nature is not slow 1 one has no possible 1 one is not directly 1 person is not likely 1 person was no instructor 1 place is not somewhere 1 placed is not private 1 points do not necessarily 1 power brought no relief 1 reader has no place 1 sentence have no logical 1 sentence have not equal 1 sentences have no connection 1 sentences is not sufficient 1 story has no moral A rudimentary bibliography -------------------------- id = 2562 author = Aristophanes title = The Clouds date = keywords = Clouds; Jupiter; Phid; Socrates; Strep; Strepsiades summary = Soc. Do you wish to know clearly celestial matters, what Soc. It becomes the old man to speak words of good omen, Soc. Come then, ye highly honoured Clouds, for a display Soc. For you do not know, by Jupiter! Soc. Will you not, pray, now believe in no god, except Soc. Come now, tell me your own turn of mind; in order the old man who speaks the verses beat the person near Soc. Come now; what do you now wish to learn first of Soc. But you must learn other things before these; Soc. Come now; I will first see this fellow, what he is Soc. Come then, wrap yourself up, and having given your Soc. He shall learn it himself from the two causes in Cho. Come now, which of the two shall speak first? Pas. By great Jupiter and the gods, you certainly shall id = 42580 author = Curl, Mervin James title = Expository Writing date = keywords = American; Boston; Charles; City; Co.; Company; England; English; Europe; George; Goldsmith; Henry; John; London; Mifflin; Mr.; New; Old; Shakespeare; States; Stevenson; Thomas; United; Washington; York; definition; fact; good; great; life; like; man; reader; subject; thing; time; word; work; writing summary = reactions to life and things; or choose a new subject. fact of choice at once to human feelings and needs--and the subject as soon as he brings his subject into relation with human life and shows the controlling purpose is the means of making writing interesting, accomplish some definite end, which, in writing, is to make the reader As a matter of fact, in writing of such subjects a writer finds that likely to attain success with subject and with reader when you come to time writes novels to be called a statesman or a man of letters? definition of college spirit the author has followed the method of regard him as a person desirous of knowing, your subject as a thing V. Write themes on the following subjects, bearing in mind that the 6. Write a similar criticism on any of the following subjects: 2. Write an appreciative criticism of the American Business Man id = 6409 author = Devlin, Joseph title = How to Speak and Write Correctly date = keywords = Anglo; Greek; John; Mr.; New; Sir; York; chapter; english; good; language; love; man; past; person; sentence; sing; tense; verb; word summary = writers and polite speakers use simple words. able to write and express his thoughts and ideas upon paper in the right A _pronoun_ is a word used in place of a noun; as, "John gave his pen to inflections of the verb express _number_, _person_, _time_ and _manner_. sense or meaning, in other words, to express a complete thought or idea. writings causes us to reiterate the literary command--"Never use a big word As in the case of words in sentences, the most important places in a In _Figurative Language_ we employ words in such a way that they differ use of the proper words and forms becomes a second nature to them. are acknowledged masters of language, and study how they use their words, and present, which means that the words are in current use by the best words, and these, after a time, come into such general use that they take id = 30294 author = Greever, Garland title = The Century Handbook of Writing date = keywords = Mr.; Shall; Use; change; clause; come; exercise; faulty; follow; good; like; man; mean; note; noun; past; place; right; sentence; subject; time; verb; word; write; wrong summary = Right: The fact that a man wears old clothes is no proof that necessary, insert a word, a phrase, or even a sentence, to carry the Do not use two or three short sentences to express ideas which will Do not attach to a main clause by means of _and_, a word, phrase, or By the use of pronouns, participles, and other dependent words, language refer to a noun or pronoun, correct the following sentences. preposition, and may be followed by a noun; _as_ is in good use Use the word which accurately expresses the thought. 1. Write the present participle of the following words: _use_, Note 1.--The following words have more than one correct form, the one Right: He said, "The time has come." have good ideas, and to use emphatic sentence structure in expressing Right: "When a word is followed by both a quotation mark and id = 12088 author = Hubbard, Marietta title = Composition-Rhetoric date = keywords = Adverb; Dennis; England; John; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; New; St.; States; United; Use; York; adjective; american; argument; description; exercise; follow; form; general; good; idea; know; man; notice; order; paragraph; point; section; sentence; subject; term; theme; time; word; write summary = Theme VII.--_Write a short story suggested by one of the following +Theme X.+--_Write a short story suggested by one of the subjects below. +Theme XI.+--_Write a short story suggested by one of the following Image Making.+--Read the following selection from Hawthorne and form Many words do not cause us to form images; for example, _goodness, +Theme XII.+--_Form a clear mental image of some incident, person, or Word Relations.+--In order to get the thought of a sentence, we must own writing that kind of paragraph which best expresses our thought. Details Related in Time-Order.+--The experiences of daily life follow establishing the correct time-order, the writer should generally state the use of the forms which show relations in thought between sentences, +Theme XXXVII.+--_Write a general description of one of the following:_-following a given time-order, so may we make a paragraph or a whole theme +Theme LV.+--_Write a descriptive paragraph, using one of the following id = 43435 author = Moulton, Richard G. (Richard Green) title = Shakespeare as a Dramatic Artist A Popular Illustration of the Principles of Scientific Criticism date = keywords = Action; Antonio; Banquo; Bassanio; Brutus; Character; Criticism; Cæsar; Drama; Dramatic; Jessica; Jew; Julius; King; Lady; Lear; Macbeth; Movement; Nemesis; Passion; Plot; Portia; Richard; Scene; Shakespeare; Shylock; Story; Venice summary = the work is an attempt, in very brief form, to present Dramatic Criticism of only five plays--_The Merchant of Venice_, _Richard III_, _Macbeth_, solved the action of a drama by some leading plot, or some central idea the scenes of the play itself, which from the nature of the stories traces the rise of Macbeth, is a complete Nemesis Action--a career of [_The fall of Macbeth a separate Nemesis Action._] whole play, setting in motion alike the rise and fall of the action. different stages of a dramatic movement like that in the present play; action underlying the main plot of _King Lear_ is different from any we the dramatic analysis of leading points in Shakespeare''s plays. the one hand life _presented in action_--so the word ''Drama'' may be Main =Nemesis= Action: Life and Death of Richard. +--Main =Character= Action: Rise and Fall of Macbeth. =Illustrations= of Enveloping Action: _Richard III_ 273, _Macbeth_ id = 1636 author = Plato title = Phaedrus date = keywords = God; Lysias; Plato; SOCRATES; art; great; like; love; man; nature; phaedrus; soul; truth summary = of philosophy to love and to art in general, and to the human soul, will PHAEDRUS: My tale, Socrates, is one of your sort, for love was the theme PHAEDRUS: What do you mean, my good Socrates? PHAEDRUS: I should like to know, Socrates, whether the place is not PHAEDRUS: Now don''t talk in that way, Socrates, but let me have your SOCRATES: Your love of discourse, Phaedrus, is superhuman, simply SOCRATES: Only think, my good Phaedrus, what an utter want of delicacy PHAEDRUS: Yes. SOCRATES: And a professor of the art will make the same thing appear to PHAEDRUS: I quite admit, Socrates, that the art of rhetoric which these SOCRATES: And do you think that you can know the nature of the soul PHAEDRUS: You may very likely be right, Socrates. PHAEDRUS: Yes. SOCRATES: Do you know how you can speak or act about rhetoric in a id = 1682 author = Plato title = Menexenus date = keywords = Athenians; Hellenes; Menexenus; Plato; Socrates summary = genuineness of ancient writings are the following: Shorter works are Dialogues of Plato are but a part of a considerable Socratic literature Plato, under their own names, e.g. the Hippias, the Funeral Oration, the writings, are the Lesser Hippias, the Menexenus or Funeral Oration, the genuineness of the dialogue will find in the Hippias a true Socratic The author of the Menexenus, whether Plato or not, is evidently character of Socrates, Plato, who knows so well how to give a hint, or Whether the Menexenus is a genuine writing of Plato, or an imitation PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE: Socrates and Menexenus. MENEXENUS: Nay, Socrates, let us have the speech, whether Aspasia''s or MENEXENUS: Far otherwise, Socrates; let us by all means have the speech. for the men of Marathon only showed the Hellenes that it was possible to MENEXENUS: I have often met Aspasia, Socrates, and know what she is id = 17470 author = Quiller-Couch, Arthur title = On the Art of Writing Lectures delivered in the University of Cambridge 1913-1914 date = keywords = Burke; Cambridge; Chaucer; England; English; Gentlemen; Greek; Homer; Jargon; John; Latin; Literature; Lord; Oxford; Poetry; Professor; Rome; Saxon; Shakespeare; Sir; Thomas; University; William; art; great; history; man; thing; verse; word summary = repetitions, the scruples of an old man who, knowing that his time in English language had not, like the Greek, ''some definite words to of noble natures, and right reading makes a full man in a sense even spirited men endow Chairs in our Universities, sure that Literature is a But that the study of English Literature can be promoted in young minds By all means let us study the great writers of the past hardier) a hall-mark of all Cambridge style so far as our English School University ought to practise verse-writing; and will try to bring this drawing some distinctions to-day between verse and prose I shall use only moment men introduced music they made verse a thing essentially separate write good English, to study the Authorised Version of the Scriptures; to Literature and practise writing here in Cambridge, shall not pass out id = 26056 author = Rainolde, Richard title = A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike because all other partes of Rhetorike are grounded thereupon, euery parte sette forthe in an Oracion vpon questions, verie profitable to bee knowen and redde date = keywords = Alexander; Athenians; Cesar; Fol; God; Grece; Grecians; Helena; Lawe; Monarchie; Nero; Oracion; Prince; Rhetorike; Rome; Troie; Tullie; Wolues; Zopyrus; common; man; sidenote; state; thei summary = the king of the Macedonians your Oratours, by whose learnyng, knowlege and wisedome, the whole bodie of your dominions is saued, for thei as Bandogges, doe repell all mischeuous enterprises and chaunses, no doubte, but that rauenyng Wolfe Philip, will eate and consume your people, by and prouident, and also fore séeth in Sommer, the sharpe season of Winter: thei keepe order, and haue a kyng and a common wealthe as it were, as nature hath taught them. for his singularitie, his commendacion giueth, ample argument, in this singulare sentence, whiche preferreth a Monarchie aboue all states of common wealthes or kyngdome. publike wealth bée sought for a tyme, moche lesse thei continue in any good state: for in the ende, their rule and gouernement, will be without rule, order, reason, modestie, and their id = 37134 author = Strunk, William title = The Elements of Style date = keywords = Rule; clause; expression; form; paragraph; sentence; word; writer summary = preceding or following the main clause of a sentence. conjunction, are to form a single compound sentence, the proper mark of It is of course equally correct to write the above as two sentences The word _walking_ refers to the subject of the sentence, not to the 9. As a rule, begin each paragraph with a topic sentence, end it in 9. As a rule, begin each paragraph with a topic sentence, end it in This rule does not, of course, mean that the writer should entirely words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a The position of the words in a sentence is the principal means of The subject of a sentence and the principal verb should not, as a rule, Place the emphatic words of a sentence at the end. Place the emphatic words of a sentence at the end. id = 28097 author = Webster, W. F. (William Franklin) title = English: Composition and Literature date = keywords = Burke; Coherence; England; English; Hawthorne; Irving; Literature; Lowell; Macaulay; Mass; Milton; Newman; Old; Riverside; Series; Sir; Stevenson; argument; author; description; form; man; paragraph; sentence; story; thing; time; word summary = be given to parts; that is, to paragraphs, sentences, and words. Paragraphs, sentences, and words are well chosen when form of paragraph, who always uses periodic sentences, who chooses school course, the essay, the paragraph, the sentence, the word, are demands that those parts of a composition, paragraph, or sentence quite correct in the choice of words, sentences, and paragraphs, and paragraphs the sentences have an average of fifteen words. Paragraph structure, sentence structure, and choice of words are taken Right words in well-massed paragraphs of vivid description should be words and phrases, there are employed sentences and paragraphs of What arrangement of sentences in the paragraph does he use most, Does he place the topic sentence near the beginning of the paragraphs? the study of paragraphs, sentences, and words. A sentence is a group of words expressing a complete thought. end contains words of distinction, and the sentence forms a climax. id = 12025 author = nan title = English Prose A Series of Related Essays for the Discussion and Practice of the Art of Writing date = keywords = Christ; Dante; Dr.; English; Europe; Footnote; God; Heidegger; Huxley; Markheim; Mr.; Plato; Professor; Shakespeare; Stoics; Walden; art; book; day; education; find; form; good; great; greek; high; human; knowledge; life; like; little; long; look; man; manner; matter; mean; mind; nature; old; power; roman; thing; time; way; work; world summary = Let a man then know his worth, and keep things under his feet. house and common day''s work: but the things of life are the same to things pass away,--means, teachers, texts, temples fall; it lives now, connection with the life of a great workaday world like the United Such a man will pass his life happily in collecting natural power of relating the modern results of natural science to man''s Natural talk, like ploughing, should turn up a large surface of life, Men feel that a certain course of life is the natural end of meaning of life, and, as I personally believe, into the nature of the this power is due to the very fact that man also is one of nature''s than a naturalism--humanized merely by the thought that man, being, appearances of nature and the thoughts and feelings of men--being