Distant Reader - subject-tavernsInns-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 6 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 28,613 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 4,768 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 91. 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:

one, iohn, king, good, two, tcp, tavernes, text, towne, ale, time, will, house, may, thomas, eebo, english, much, william, henry, three, great, town, first, tei, kings, london, made, richard, market, edward, texts, head, now, shall, england, like, early, elizabeth, men, many, characters, also, within, george, called, yet, neere, books, county

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are The honorable, and memorable foundations, erections, raisings, and ruines, of divers cities, townes, castles, and other pieces of antiquitie, within ten shires and counties of this kingdome namely, Kent, Sussex, Hampshire, Surrey, Barkshire, Essex, Middlesex, Hartfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Oxfordshire: with the description of many famous accidents that have happened, in divers places in the said counties. Also, a relation of the wine tavernes either by their signes, or names of the persons that allow, or keepe them, in, and throughout the said severall shires. By John Taylor., Poor Robins perambulation from Saffron-Walden to London performed this month of July, 1678., and By the King, a proclamation concerning ale-houses.

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

early english, english books, books online, text creation, creation partnership, king henry, page images, market towne, two tavernes, king edward, good market, represented either, characters represented, tcp schema, image sets, kings head, market townes, wine tavernes, white hart, one taverne, princes armes, kings armes, using tcp, texts based, markup guidelines, placeholder characters, instances will, images scanned, will never, true nature, tcp tei, syntactic tagging, notably latin, keying companies, tcp data, issued variously, every monographic, drinking establishments, providing financial, create accurately, text transcribed, characters marked, encoded texts, ann arbor, iv tiff, user contributors, tcp files, per text, first edition, text selection

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are Sot''s paradise, or, The humours of a Derby-ale-house with a satyr upon the ale. Poor Robins perambulation from Saffron-Walden to London performed this month of July, 1678., and The character of a tavern with a brief draught of a drawer..

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, ale, tei, william, towne, town, thomas, tavernes, richard, market, lyon, london, kings, journey, iustices, iohn, henry, george, england, edward, early, derby, county, beer

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 hath, and Suff. ss. memorandum that the [blank] day of [blank] anno Dom. [blank] in the countie aforesaid, vpon his recognisance acknowledged according to the forme of the statute in that case made and prouided, is licensed, assigned and allowed by [blank] Iustices of the Peace of the said countie, to keepe a common victaulling and ale-house ... 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?":

time, tavernes, text, texts, t, house, characters, men, head, towne, kings, faire, day, market, hath, xml, books, images, houses, works, place, town, signes, man, image, way, edition, work, project, page, keying, encoding, elements, eebo, data, street, title, persons, reason, raigne, name, doth, beer, users, tho, thing, sets, selection, schema, purposes

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, was, be, are, did, have, were, hath, had, said, been, do, made, called, encoded, being, make, kept, allowed, ''s, built, take, keepe, come, based, having, call, think, named, know, came, went, go, drink, according, published, divided, create, told, represented, marked, created, corrected, -, suffer, see, say, meet, makes, stay

Proper Nouns

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

iohn, king, tcp, ●, ale, thomas, william, towne, henry, hath, london, richard, edward, england, elizabeth, george, text, tei, eebo, county, tavernes, lyon, english, anne, oxford, castle, house, 〉, mary, ◊, wine, town, 〈, white, robert, bull, _, thou, armes, proquest, phase, peace, partnership, k., creation, taylor, iustices, hart, bell, rose

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, he, my, you, they, their, them, we, him, me, our, her, your, she, us, thee, themselves, one, its, himself, wag''d, us''d, thy, theirs, judg''d, hers, gray''s

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?"

good, other, such, much, great, same, many, famous, early, first, english, old, true, little, available, strong, rich, next, more, second, most, goodly, illegible, general, ancient, large, honest, own, sweet, small, poor, last, high, due, better, third, mighty, greater, full, drunk, subject, fine, common, clear, best, wide, usual, textual, syntactic, structural

not, so, there, then, very, now, also, therefore, neere, here, out, more, in, as, up, thus, too, namely, much, most, well, sometimes, first, once, yet, online, never, down, over, ever, still, only, soon, all, usually, on, indeed, again, above, variously, respectfully, often, notably, mainly, even, away, almost, accurately, yeere, truly

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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