Distant Reader - subject-soldiers-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 2021-05-25 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 42 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 129,267 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 3,077 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 84. 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, text, god, will, souldiers, may, men, one, haue, early, great, many, english, time, tcp, parliament, lord, us, bee, officers, peace, good, yet, without, man, army, warre, church, books, now, england, much, thomason, make, like, world, commons, enemies, king, online, life, works, also, discipline, therefore, first, made, wee, warres, pay

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are The building and glory of the truely Christian and spiritual church. Represented in an exposition on Isai. 54, from vers. 11. to the 17. Preached to His Excellency Sir Tho. Fairfax and the general officers of the army, with divers other officers, and souldiers, and people, at Marston, being the head-quarter at the leaguer before Oxford, June. 7. 1646. / By William Dell, minister of the Gospel, attending on His Excellencie Sir Thomas Fairfax in the Army. Together with a faithful testimony touching that valiant and victorious army, in the epistle to the reader. Published by authority., Foure paradoxes, or politique discourses 2 concerning militarie discipline, written long since by Thomas Digges Esquire. 2 of the worthinesse of warre and warriors, by Dudly Digges, his sonne. All newly published to keepe those that will read them, as they did them that wrote them, from idlenesse., and The souldiers march to salvation wherein is shewn the lawfulness of voluntary serving upon the assured knowledge of a just cause, how it is lawful and necessary for prest souldiers to obey authority in case of doubting ....

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

early english, english books, books online, early works, textual changes, creation partnership, text creation, page images, great britain, commons assembled, xml conversion, providing financial, encoded edition, tiff page, images scanned, batch review, markup reviewed, without asking, work described, creative commons, institutions providing, financial support, asking permission, commercial purposes, tcp assigned, image set, text transcribed, bit group, iv tiff, proquest page, pfs batch, encoded text, online text, thomas fairfax, many walks, enrichments aim, title catalog, changes aim, digital transcription, notre dame, project evanston, metadata enrichments, linguistically annotated, earlyprint project, fully proofread, based collaborative, includes standard, tcp digital, proofread approx, stationer meant

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are The noble souldiers advice to his comrades: or, The red-coats resolution. Written by a member of the army. Serious and seasonable advice to the English soldiers of His Majesty''s army, and A proclamation prohibiting His Majesties subjects to enter into the service of foreign Princes and lands James R..

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, parliament, lord, souldiers, king, god, warre, lords, fairfax, commons, church, peace, officer, man, haue, generall, word, treasurers, treasure, thy, thomason, thing, text, statute, states, spirit, souldier, soldier, saints, regiment, prince, oxford, officers, non, nation, mr., moderne, martiall, majesties, london, law, israel, ireland, houses, great, gates, free, excise, essex, ensignes

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 souldiers sad complaint. Per I.H. 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?":

text, men, souldiers, time, man, world, enemies, works, life, peace, warres, people, books, images, xml, image, page, persons, themselues, end, officers, day, discipline, changes, work, others, transcription, warre, things, hands, death, thing, edition, hath, power, times, soldiers, keying, texts, eebo, purposes, honour, pay, place, part, cause, owne, hee, users, markup

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:

be, is, are, have, was, were, been, had, make, said, do, being, made, did, take, according, encoded, let, haue, has, come, say, bee, see, assembled, aim, given, set, published, based, ordered, pay, making, fight, -, read, put, performed, done, doe, assigned, taught, distributed, described, providing, asking, give, scanned, reviewed, owned

Proper Nouns

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

god, tcp, lord, parliament, england, thomason, church, commons, army, english, haue, london, text, christ, thou, hath, king, wee, souldiers, martiall, lords, officers, warre, transcribed, generall, bee, wales, spirit, lib, prince, fairfax, c., state, great, thomas, ●, printed, proquest, phase, partnership, de, creation, britain, doe, house, souldier, john, discipline, online, wing

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?"

their, it, they, his, our, them, i, he, we, you, your, him, my, us, me, thy, her, themselves, thee, himself, its, ye, she, theirs, vp, ours, one, mine, vnto, imploymēt, gods

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?"

such, other, many, great, good, early, more, english, same, true, own, textual, first, most, much, new, available, due, free, best, better, able, honourable, greater, last, keyboarded, financial, commercial, common, precious, honest, little, worthy, tractable, suitable, easier, whole, standardized, standard, seekest, proofread, professional, late, honorable, full, enriched, digital, collaborative, present, priuate

not, so, then, more, now, also, most, therefore, as, onely, early, well, online, even, up, much, yet, rather, only, very, out, too, together, thus, here, forth, away, indeed, first, in, ever, above, still, thereof, fully, there, thereby, linguistically, computationally, never, hereby, all, otherwise, once, long, whatsoever, vs, sometimes, further, likewise

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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