Summary of your 'study carrel' ============================== This is a summary of your Distant Reader 'study carrel'. The Distant Reader harvested & cached your content into a collection/corpus. It then applied sets of natural language processing and text mining against the collection. The results of this process was reduced to a database file -- a 'study carrel'. The study carrel can then be queried, thus bringing light specific characteristics for your collection. These characteristics can help you summarize the collection as well as enumerate things you might want to investigate more closely. This report is a terse narrative report, and when processing is complete you will be linked to a more complete narrative report. Eric Lease Morgan Number of items in the collection; 'How big is my corpus?' ---------------------------------------------------------- 3 Average length of all items measured in words; "More or less, how big is each item?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 21291 Average readability score of all items (0 = difficult; 100 = easy) ------------------------------------------------------------------ 81 Top 50 statistically significant keywords; "What is my collection about?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 left 2 Sword 1 thrust 1 sword 1 stick 1 right 1 position 1 point 1 illustration 1 hand 1 guard 1 fig 1 edge 1 cut 1 body 1 Vesta 1 Time 1 Jester 1 Hand 1 Aldebaran Top 50 lemmatized nouns; "What is discussed?" --------------------------------------------- 213 thrust 192 point 188 time 187 sword 184 man 177 hand 171 body 157 guard 155 foot 120 cut 119 stick 111 order 106 edge 103 arm 91 position 83 blade 79 illustration 75 weapon 68 way 68 measure 67 right 67 motion 62 part 60 line 59 side 59 one 57 shoulder 57 play 53 left 53 case 49 front 48 thing 48 head 46 use 43 reason 43 adversary 42 attack 41 hilt 39 other 39 day 38 wrist 38 staff 38 bayonet 37 hit 36 length 36 exercise 34 advantage 33 place 33 face 32 leg Top 50 proper nouns; "What are the names of persons or places?" -------------------------------------------------------------- 1292 _ 189 Sword 96 Time 94 Guard 93 Hand 79 Foot 77 Wrist 76 Quart 75 Tierce 75 Adversary 72 Enemy 68 Point 68 Feeble 67 Fig 66 Fort 65 Parade 63 Quarte 60 Blade 59 Seconde 50 Feint 41 Motion 41 Aldebaran 40 Thrust 36 Left 35 Lunge 31 CHAP 28 Fencing 27 Master 27 Manner 26 Body 25 Pass 22 thou 22 Parts 20 Plate 20 Counter 18 strait 18 Right 18 Engagement 17 Swiftness 17 Rispost 17 Jester 17 Foil 17 Distance 16 Mr. 16 Line 15 Practice 15 Men 15 Inside 15 Height 14 sabre Top 50 personal pronouns nouns; "To whom are things referred?" ------------------------------------------------------------- 810 you 777 it 393 he 228 i 194 him 154 they 103 them 52 we 45 yourself 41 me 35 himself 27 themselves 21 us 18 one 16 itself 11 his 9 she 9 myself 6 thee 4 yours 4 her 3 shou''d 2 ye 2 thyself 2 ours 1 theirs 1 ourselves 1 mine 1 mayhap Top 50 lemmatized verbs; "What do things do?" --------------------------------------------- 2630 be 508 have 337 make 215 do 182 take 167 push 138 give 118 parry 107 come 101 turn 101 say 89 cut 87 use 86 keep 86 go 85 bring 75 know 75 draw 70 hit 70 find 62 see 61 get 55 disengage 55 advance 53 avoid 52 let 50 put 49 carry 48 oppose 46 think 42 follow 41 return 41 raise 41 engage 38 observe 37 leave 36 hold 36 attack 35 learn 34 thrust 34 call 34 accord 33 recover 32 show 32 place 32 begin 31 pass 31 lower 30 want 30 meet Top 50 lemmatized adjectives and adverbs; "How are things described?" --------------------------------------------------------------------- 436 not 200 well 180 more 173 good 171 left 150 right 140 as 138 so 135 only 134 very 131 other 131 first 115 little 107 same 100 back 96 great 95 then 88 much 78 too 78 most 78 long 72 also 71 up 65 necessary 60 low 54 now 53 far 50 out 47 many 47 high 45 always 44 down 43 short 43 on 41 second 41 almost 39 even 39 again 37 single 36 old 36 forward 36 enough 35 in 35 hard 34 such 34 strong 34 possible 34 never 33 about 32 quick Top 50 lemmatized superlative adjectives; "How are things described to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 37 good 22 most 11 least 6 near 6 great 6 bad 6 Most 5 slight 5 brave 4 short 4 early 3 strong 3 easy 2 low 2 heavy 2 hard 1 worthy 1 weak 1 tough 1 temp 1 sure 1 smooth 1 small 1 simple 1 rough 1 old 1 noble 1 nice 1 new 1 mere 1 long 1 kingli 1 handsome 1 furth 1 fit 1 fine 1 few 1 close 1 cheap Top 50 lemmatized superlative adverbs; "How do things do to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 56 most 2 well 1 least Top 50 Internet domains; "What Webbed places are alluded to in this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Top 50 URLs; "What is hyperlinked from this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------- Top 50 email addresses; "Who are you gonna call?" ------------------------------------------------- Top 50 positive assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-noun?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3 _ hit _ 2 _ do _ 2 man is strong 2 thrust is not 2 time pushing strait 2 wrist turned in 1 _ be so 1 _ be unfortunately 1 _ be very 1 _ being necessarily 1 _ cut _ 1 _ cutting _ 1 _ do n''t 1 _ draw _ 1 _ drawing _ 1 _ finding _ 1 _ hits _ 1 _ is dangerous 1 _ is easy 1 _ is independent 1 _ kept _ 1 _ made strong 1 _ see _ 1 adversary being unable 1 adversary does not 1 adversary going more 1 adversary has not 1 adversary is quick 1 adversary is unskilful 1 adversary pushes _ 1 arm being close 1 arm being merely 1 arm is _ 1 arm is necessary 1 arm is ready 1 arm is unduly 1 arm is well 1 blade be as 1 blade be parallel 1 blade being horizontal 1 blade coming out 1 blade is bent 1 blade is nearly 1 blade is now 1 blade was sword 1 blades are justly 1 blades being unweildy 1 body are wrong 1 body be so 1 body does not Top 50 negative assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-no|not-noun?" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 thrust is not good 1 adversary has not only 1 body does not only 1 body has not sufficient 1 foot were not so 1 stick does not properly 1 sword is not firm A rudimentary bibliography -------------------------- id = 31214 author = Headley, Rowland George Allanson-Winn, Baron title = Broad-Sword and Single-Stick With Chapters on Quarter-Staff, Bayonet, Cudgel, Shillalah, Walking-Stick, Umbrella and Other Weapons of Self-Defence date = keywords = cut; edge; fig; guard; hand; illustration; left; point; position; right; stick; sword summary = usual for a right-handed man to stand with his left foot in advance of In quarter-staff, as in stick-play, broad-sword exercise, fencing, etc., in all cuts, points, or guards, the second knuckles of the fingers in their hands _pointing_ and _cutting_ weapons, and make slashing guard,'' where the point of the sword is necessarily directed upwards, to angles, right foot pointing towards target; shoulders square to left, _First Point._--Turn the wrist, with the edge of the sword upwards, to _Second Point._--Turn the edge upwards to the left, draw the elbow _Guard Three._--Turn wrist and edge to the left, the hand being rather _Guard Five._--Wrist and edge to the left, with blade pointing _Guard Six._--Wrist and edge to the right, with blade pointing right to left of your body, the sword returning to its position as of it, the point of the sword lowered to the left front, edge upwards. id = 39385 author = Johnston, Annie F. (Annie Fellows) title = The Jester''s Sword How Aldebaran, the King''s Son Wore the Sheathed Sword of Conquest date = keywords = Aldebaran; Jester; Sword; Vesta summary = How Aldebaran, the King''s Son, Wore the Sheathed Sword of Conquest When the great day came at last for the Sword to be put into his hands, king knew that Aldebaran would fail not in the keeping of that oath. ''Twas passing wonderful how soon Aldebaran began to taste the sweets of Most of all Aldebaran thought of Vesta. Aldebaran hid his face within his hands. "Because thou _art_ a king''s son," said the Jester. The Jester looked down on Aldebaran''s wan face. "At any rate," he said, "for one whole day thou hast kept thy oath. "Yet it would show still greater courage if thou couldst face thy fate So Aldebaran went out determined to be glad in heart as well as speech, "As Aldebaran the star shines in the heavens" (_no light within itself, Jester, and in time Aldebaran began to feel the gladness that he only id = 12135 author = Labat, maître d''armes title = The Art of Fencing; Or, The Use of the Small Sword date = keywords = Hand; Sword; Time; body; left; thrust summary = Volting, Passing, and Lowering the Body, are three things which Mr. _L''Abbat_ disapproves of, in which Opinion I join; because the Sword Body forward, and give more Swiftness to the Thrust: The Left Hand easy, by pushing _Quart_; and to avoid a second Thrust from the Enemy at Adversary''s Sword, the Wrist turned in _Quart_, but a little lower: The In case the Adversary pushes _Quart_, in order to take the Time, you Thrust, Feint, Engagement, or Rispost; and if the Enemy parrys, you must time and push _Quarte_, if he comes to your Sword with his Fort, you the same time the Guard of his Sword with your Left-hand and carrying the Left-hand, risposting in _Quarte_; if he takes the Time cutting the Left-hand: This Thrust is good against a Man that pushes at the same pushing _Quarte_ afterwards, opposing with the Left-hand: This Thrust