Distant Reader - subject-thirtyYears-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 13 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 578,474 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 44,498 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 89. 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:

might, great, king, made, men, much, army, good, duke, time, one, souldiers, horse, himselfe, also, french, many, well, colonell, towne, forces, enemy, towards, hee, generall, make, enemies, without, owne, yet, though, place, first, therefore, spaniards, come, letter, page, swedes, us, two, taken, march, shall, may, majesty, side, will, majestie, doe

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are An history of the late warres and other state affaires of the best part of Christendom beginning with the King of Swethlands entrance into Germany, and continuing in the yeare 1640 / written in Italian by the Count Galliazzo Gualdo Priorato and in English by the Right Honourable Henry Earle of Monmouth., Monro his expedition vvith the vvorthy Scots Regiment (called Mac-Keyes Regiment) levied in August 1626. by Sr. Donald Mac-Key Lord Rhees, colonell for his Majesties service of Denmark, and reduced after the Battaile of Nerling, to one company in September 1634. at Wormes in the Paltz Discharged in severall duties and observations of service; first under the magnanimous King of Denmark, during his warres against the Emperour; afterward, under the invincible King of Sweden, during his Majesties life time; and since, under the Directour Generall, the Rex-chancellor Oxensterne and his generalls. Collected and gathered together at spare-houres, by Colonell Robert Monro ... for the use of all worthie cavaliers favouring the laudable profession of armes. To which is annexed the abridgement of exercise, and divers practicall observations, for the younger officer his consideration; ending with the souldiers meditations going on service., and The Svvedish discipline, religious, civile, and military The first part, in the formes of prayer daily used by those of the Swedish nation, in the armie. Together with two severall prayers, uttered upon severall occasions by that pious King; which God immediately heard and granted him. The second part, in the excellent orders observed in the armie; whereof we here present you the articles, by which the souldiery is governed. The third part, in the Kings commission for levying of a regiment: his order for drawing vp of a private company; of a squadron; and of a brigade: with his manner of enquartering a private regiment; and of an army royall: vnto which is added the best manner of building and fortifying of a towne of warre. All, in fiue severall figures expressed and explained. Last of all, is the famous Battell of Leipsich, in two fayre figures also set forth: and now this second time more fully and particularly described..

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

dutch miles, lievetenant colonell, generall major, taken prisoners, might easily, next day, greatest part, marched towards, march towards, early english, english books, every one, generall tilly, right hand, good order, hee might, good will, next morning, books online, gustavus horne, ryxe dollars, sir iohn, strong holds, might make, whole army, dayes dutch, left wing, one another, thousand men, make use, prince thomas, every day, left hand, french forces, three dayes, page images, creation partnership, taken prisoner, text creation, dutie discharged, common souldiers, much troubled, roman catholiques, elector palatine, make good, meane time, chiefe commanders, one side, things necessary, five hundred

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are A declaration or manifesto, vvherein the Roman Imperiall Majesty makes known to the states & peers of Hungarie, what reasons and motives have compelled him to proceed in open warre against the Prince of Transylvania. VVhereby also his Imperiall Majesty admonisheth them to a due consideration of their loyaltie and obedience, as also to a zealous and joynt opposition against the said Prince of Transylvania, bearing date the 23. of February, 1644. An history of the late warres and other state affaires of the best part of Christendom beginning with the King of Swethlands entrance into Germany, and continuing in the yeare 1640 / written in Italian by the Count Galliazzo Gualdo Priorato and in English by the Right Honourable Henry Earle of Monmouth., and An English-mans loue to Bohemia with a friendly farewell to all the noble souldiers that goe from great Britaine to that honorable expedition. As also, the names of the most part of the kings, princes, dukes, marquisses, earles, bishops, and other friendly confederates, that are combined with the Bohemian part. By Iohn Taylor..

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:

king, tcp, duke, army, generall, emperour, towne, prince, officers, god, garrison, enemy, empire, country, colonell, swedish, souldiers, river, regiment, lord, letters, leaguer, imperiall, imperialists, horse, governour, english, elector, early, dutch, court, castle, captaine, cannon, armie, armes, warre, walesteine, voyage, transylvania, territories, tei, swedes, swedens, state, spanish, spaniards, scots, saxons, romanists

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 did, and Mayeres his travels containing a true recapitulation of all the remarkable passages which befell in the authors peregrination and voyages, as namely in these imployments following: viz. his 1 voyage for the wars in Ireland in Queen E.R. 2 At Breda, under one of the four English Colonell regiments. 3 With Count Mansfield. 4 To Cales. 5 To the Ile of Rhee. Wherunto is added a speech the author held with great King Hunger in his journey over the alpes. Collected and written by him who was both an actor, and an eye witnesse in the above named severall imployments, the space of forty yeeres, R.M.S. Gent. Published with license and authority. 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, time, place, enemies, page, enemy, souldiers, side, part, himselfe, horse, day, forces, man, others, way, service, hee, againe, reason, people, things, night, rest, death, end, order, hand, owne, places, losse, quarters, parts, nothing, feare, thence, officers, country, meanes, times, kings, orders, letter, life, march, occasion, manner, foote, state, selfe

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:

was, were, be, being, had, is, did, having, made, have, are, make, come, taken, said, sent, see, came, commanded, put, take, marched, set, thought, brought, done, went, resolved, give, given, lost, found, been, kept, left, tooke, making, seeing, received, called, lay, let, get, got, vnto, fight, keepe, bring, desired, taking

Proper Nouns

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

king, duke, army, colonell, towne, french, generall, spaniards, swedes, majesty, majestie, horse, cannon, souldiers, letter, prince, imperialists, god, forces, emperour, princes, france, armie, foot, doe, regiment, armes, garrison, captaine, owne, ●, hee, state, lord, warre, sweden, count, bohemia, germany, majesties, officers, imperiall, major, elector, hath, march, castle, thou, tilly, dutch

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?"

his, their, he, they, it, them, him, our, we, i, themselves, my, us, me, her, you, your, thy, she, its, thee, himself, theirs, vp, ours, one, mine, vnto, whereof, ourselves, yours, yourself, ye, trye, therevnto, there, shou''d, severall, pappenheim, obey''d, o, lye, itself, ian, hitherto, ee, beg''d

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?"

other, great, good, many, such, much, more, little, strong, first, whole, able, same, best, last, greater, new, himselfe, most, better, former, next, worthy, old, greatest, french, wise, few, full, common, small, true, noble, dutch, ready, right, free, second, present, swedish, dead, lievetenant, valiant, long, desirous, brave, like, sufficient, particular, chiefe

not, so, then, also, well, more, much, therefore, very, out, up, as, there, here, likewise, now, together, onely, thereof, most, yet, in, never, off, ever, thus, away, first, rather, over, on, too, afterwards, neere, still, thereby, long, once, about, easily, before, even, already, presently, forth, formerly, better, therein, sometimes, no

Next steps

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