Distant Reader - subject-sailors-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 18 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 185,610 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 10,311 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:

god, will, sea, may, shall, men, vs, yet, lord, great, christ, one, now, blood, man, make, text, many, world, day, therefore, soul, time, haue, sin, first, must, death, let, doth, things, see, vpon, way, made, life, much, heart, good, like, come, tcp, psal, ship, us, though, vnto, say, without, wee

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are Navigation spiritualiz''d: or, A new compass for seamen consisting of XXXII points of pleasant observations, profitable applications, and serious reflections: all concluded with so many spiritual poems. Whereunto is now added, I. A sober consideration of the sin of drunkenness. II. The harlots face in the Scripture-glass. III. The art of preserving the fruit of the lips. IV. The resurrection of buried mercies and promises. V. The sea-mans catechism. Being an essay toward their much desir''d reformation from the horrible and destable [sic] sins of drunkenness, swearing, uncleanness, forgetfulness of mercies, violation of promises, and atheistical contempt of death. Fit to be seriously recommmended to their profane relations, whether sea-men or others, by all such as unfeignedly desire their eternal welfare. By John Flavel, minister of the Gospel., The true honor of navigation and navigators: or, holy meditations for sea-men Written vpon our sauiour Christ his voyage by sea, Matth. 8. 23. &c. Whereunto are added certaine formes of prayers for sea trauellers, suited to the former meditations, vpon the seuerall occasions that fall at sea. By Iohn Wood, Doctor in Diuinitie., and An account of the nature, causes, symptoms, and cure of the distempers that are incident to seafaring people with observations on the diet of the sea-men in His Majesty''s navy : illustrated with some remarkable instances of the sickness of the fleet during the last summer, historically related / by W.C..

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

early english, english books, books online, iesus christ, creation partnership, text creation, let vs, page images, early works, sauiour christ, great deal, wee may, characters represented, image sets, tcp schema, represented either, animal spirits, god will, call vpon, let us, must needs, without asking, tiff page, tcp assigned, encoded text, proquest page, providing financial, gap elements, image set, asking permission, pfs batch, creative commons, bit group, batch review, images scanned, iv tiff, work described, text transcribed, markup reviewed, mona logarbo, institutions providing, online text, encoded edition, xml conversion, commercial purposes, financial support, giue vs, will make, doe blow, may say

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are A proclamation for re-calling and prohibiting sea-men from the services of forreign princes and states. At Edinburgh, the seventh day of June, one thousand six hundred and sixty four. Reasons for the taking off the Q--s and R--s in the Navy books; together with proposals humbly offered to the honourable House of Commons for the expeditious payment of saylors., and The watermens case, in relation to the bill for increase and encouragement of seamen.

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, sea, lord, man, psal, observation, god, christ, world, watermen, thy, tei, spirit, soul, ship, scripture, saylors, sauiour, saints, saint, reflection, queen, pulse, prov, prophet, powder, poem, patient, ocean, navy, mercy, men, medicins, matth, mat, master, majesty, majesties, lusts, life, king, iesus, hell, great, gods, genes, fleet, fit, fever, father

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 god, and Neptunes raging fury, or, The gallant sea-mens sufferings. Being a relation of their perils and dangers, and of the extraordinary hazards they undergo in their noble adventures. Together with their undaunted valor, and rare constancy, in all their extremities. And the manner of their rejoycing on shore at their return home. To the tune of, When the stormy windes doe blow. / By J.P. 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?":

men, blood, sea, day, time, man, things, sin, way, death, world, heart, text, life, t, soul, ship, parts, body, power, ▪, word, place, doth, thy, danger, part, hath, thing, name, people, hand, faith, self, works, nature, end, work, art, quantity, reason, others, none, image, nothing, times, peace, texts, page, mercy

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, have, was, were, had, do, make, been, being, let, made, see, come, did, say, take, said, know, ''s, go, set, give, am, put, has, find, according, done, consider, encoded, haue, produce, hath, call, cast, given, vnto, brought, taken, think, fall, die, makes, bee, came, sent, bring, seeing

Proper Nouns

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

god, thou, lord, christ, sea, tcp, ●, 〉, ◊, hath, psal, 〈, wee, haue, c., doe, soul, cor, text, heaven, iohn, english, hast, hell, church, vs, mat, disciples, y, yea, saint, gods, iesus, ye, world, i., e., tei, eebo, t, s, england, spirit, sauiour, rom, man, father, bee, vp, prophet

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, i, his, they, their, he, our, them, we, you, him, my, thy, your, me, its, thee, us, her, themselves, himself, she, vp, one, mine, itself, yours, ye, vnto, theirs, s, ''em, y, whereof, vvith, us''d, u, o, myself, f, 〈, ʒ, youl, vy, vvill, vs, vntill, thou, there, si

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?"

great, other, such, many, more, good, first, same, little, own, much, true, greater, full, last, whole, early, able, small, greatest, poor, next, natural, second, best, necessary, english, least, dreadful, wicked, saith, new, most, few, former, doth, better, high, ready, due, strong, general, available, present, haue, common, right, strange, different, sweet

not, so, then, now, more, therefore, very, thus, as, out, up, only, yet, vs, most, also, here, never, onely, well, even, first, too, away, much, ever, there, no, sometimes, in, down, off, forth, still, especially, again, together, thereof, therein, once, indeed, before, rather, easily, often, else, secondly, long, thereby, early

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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