Distant Reader - subject-treason-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 48 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 316,332 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 6,590 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 85. 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:

mr, king, lord, will, one, may, shall, text, parliament, time, england, treason, law, man, colledge, now, english, say, made, know, sir, tcp, great, god, ireland, kings, first, men, never, peers, thing, coll, just, us, good, must, well, make, persons, house, early, take, irish, yet, without, smith, right, court, came, therefore

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are The arraignment, tryal and condemnation of Stephen Colledge for high-treason, in conspiring the death of the King, the levying of war, and the subversion of the government Before the Right Honourable Sir Francis North, Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common-Pleas, and other commissioners of oyer and terminer and gaol-delivery held at the city of Oxon. for the county of Oxon. the 17th and 18th of August 1681. I do appoint Thomas Basset and John Fish to print the arraignment, tryal and condemnation of Stephen Colledge, and that no others presume to print the same. Fr. North., The proceedings at the Sessions House in the Old-Baily, London on Thursday the 24th day of November, 1681 before His Majesties commissioners of Oyer and Terminer upon the bill of indictment for high-treason against Anthony Earl of Shaftsbury : published by His Majesties special command., and Reflections upon a treasonable opinion, industriously promoted, against signing the National association and the entring into it prov''d to be the duty of all subjects of this kingdom..

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

english books, early english, books online, page images, creation partnership, text creation, early works, irish peers, high treason, lord shaftsbury, image sets, tcp schema, represented either, characters represented, magna charta, asking permission, tiff page, commercial purposes, proquest page, text transcribed, image set, encoded edition, markup reviewed, bit group, pfs batch, tcp assigned, institutions providing, iv tiff, financial support, providing financial, creative commons, xml conversion, encoded text, images scanned, without asking, work described, online text, batch review, sovereign lord, privy council, textual changes, will never, kings bench, gap elements, lord chief, chief justice, sir john, great britain, two witnesses, sir george

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are A proclamation, for delivery in of the arms and ammunition &c. lately brought into this Kingdom by the late Earl of Argile, and other rebels. A proclamation, for bringing in horses out of some vvestern shires. Edinburgh, the 25. of March, 1667., and A proclamation for apprehending the persons after-named, as having been in France contrair to the acts of Parliament..

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, king, parliament, lord, english, early, william, treason, people, god, england, earl, sir, scotland, realm, oates, master, majesties, lords, laws, law, kings, house, court, commons, authority, act, woman, witnesses, tryal, truth, treasons, traytors, thomas, subjects, strafford, statute, states, state, speaker, son, smith, sibbald, shaftsbury, ser, scaffold, realme, queen, protector, popish

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 mr, and A collection of several treatises concerning the reasons and occasions of the penal laws 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, man, text, thing, men, coll, kings, persons, words, nothing, evidence, person, life, t, case, others, works, things, people, death, hath, texts, day, self, books, matter, reason, subjects, images, jury, xml, king, p., way, part, place, witnesses, characters, discourse, page, body, work, image, title, power, end, none, right, times, manner

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, be, is, have, had, were, said, are, did, do, been, being, say, made, know, make, take, came, tell, done, told, come, go, give, has, think, see, according, taken, given, speak, says, am, encoded, let, heard, pray, put, sent, having, concerning, brought, believe, went, ask, committed, call, thought, called, found

Proper Nouns

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

mr., king, lord, c., england, parliament, colledge, treason, sir, law, l., god, tcp, ireland, j., h., peers, english, smith, court, majesty, house, oxford, commons, london, act, realm, kingdom, irish, john, jeff, lords, hath, justice, crown, earl, statute, tryal, text, gen., william, e., shaftsbury, jones, plot, laws, att, kings, dugdale, treasons

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?"

i, you, it, he, his, they, my, him, their, them, your, me, we, our, her, us, himself, themselves, she, thy, its, thee, yours, theirs, ''em, one, ours, mine, vvhat, vvith, em, ''s, whereof, whence, vp, s, ostendendo, ose, l, ib, f, ee, def, ce

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, such, great, same, own, good, many, first, true, more, early, several, english, last, guilty, late, common, whole, much, very, general, available, irish, high, present, little, most, particular, next, wicked, former, textual, second, new, lawful, sure, ready, due, better, greater, certain, least, honest, right, large, open, old, long, full, illegible

not, so, then, now, never, here, there, as, only, just, very, well, therefore, up, ever, out, more, most, in, yet, first, down, also, even, much, too, before, away, again, over, all, truly, early, together, online, n''t, off, thus, thereof, long, else, rather, still, above, far, indeed, further, at, afterwards, on

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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