Distant Reader - author-bunyanJohn-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 2021-05-23 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 35 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 1,371,549 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 39,187 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 100. 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:

god, will, christ, shall, man, also, now, us, lord, one, sin, say, yet, come, things, jesus, soul, men, therefore, may, first, must, good, grace, law, heart, world, made, doth, life, faith, saith, day, make, word, spirit, fear, way, let, see, yea, even, heaven, great, though, time, thing, holy, self, father

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are A treatise of the fear of God shewing what it is, and how distinguished from that what is not so : also whence it comes, who has it, what are the effects, and what the priviledges of those that have it in their hearts / by John Bunyan., The doctrine of the law and grace unfolded, or, A discourse touching the law and grace the nature of the one and the nature of the other, shewing what they are as they are the two covenants ... wherein for the better understanding of the reader there is several questions answered touching the law and grace ... : also several titles set over the several truths contained in this book, for thy sooner finding of them, which are those following the epistle / published by that poor and contemptible creature, John Bunyan of Bedford., and Seasonable counsel, or, Advice to sufferers by John Bunyan..

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

jesus christ, lord jesus, holy ghost, every one, god will, shall come, take heed, christ jesus, must needs, let us, will make, eternal life, early english, english books, shall see, books online, right hand, will give, god doth, man may, first place, first day, good works, humane nature, john bunyan, text creation, creation partnership, page images, will say, shew us, wise cast, biggest sinners, saith god, god shall, new covenant, christ will, broken heart, will come, may see, lord god, will never, new testament, man sin, take away, may say, one thing, every man, another place, two things, many things

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are The work of Jesus Christ as an advocate clearly explained and largely improved for the benefit of all believers ... / by John Bunyan, author of The pilgrims progress. The advocateship of Jesus Christ clearly explained, and largely improved, for the benefit of all believers by John Bunyan ..., and Sighs from hell, or, The groans of a damned soul discovering from the 16th of Luke the lamentable state of the damned : and may fitly serve as a warning-word to sinners, both old and young, by faith in Jesus Christ, to avoid the same place of torment : with a discovery of the usefulness of the Scriptures as our safe conduct for avoiding the torments of hell / by John Bunyan..

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:

god, lord, christ, law, world, spirit, soul, grace, father, jesus, tcp, gospel, cor, church, son, sin, man, life, word, faith, house, children, saints, psal, people, hell, scriptures, mercy, men, king, joh, heart, devil, water, text, sins, saviour, satan, rom, priest, office, jerusalem, doctrine, death, city, christian, cause, book, body, blood

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 god, and Grace abounding to the chief of sinners, or, A brief and faithful relation of the exceeding mercy of God in Christ, to his poor servant John Bvnyan wherein is particularly shewed, the manner of his conversion, his fight and trouble for sin, his dreadful temptations, also how he despaired of Gods mercy, and how the Lord at length thorow [sic] Christ did deliver him from all the guilt and terrour that lay upon him : whereunto is added, a brief relation of his call to the work of the ministry, of his temptations therein, as also what he hath met with in prison : all which was written by his own hand there, and now published for the support of the the weak and tempted people of God. 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?":

man, things, sin, men, heart, day, way, soul, thing, time, life, self, faith, sins, place, fear, death, people, grace, t, word, doth, advocate, name, world, blood, glory, hath, words, work, body, sinners, nothing, thy, none, one, hand, saints, nature, reason, love, others, thee, truth, righteousness, end, art, cause, souls, works

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, be, are, was, have, do, had, say, were, come, did, said, made, make, let, see, has, take, been, being, go, know, give, done, put, am, think, called, set, given, shew, according, came, saith, hath, believe, speak, stand, find, found, fear, coming, pray, saved, look, doth, cast, keep, bring, tell

Proper Nouns

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

god, christ, thou, lord, jesus, law, heaven, father, spirit, hath, world, 〉, grace, soul, ◊, yea, gospel, church, 〈, man, son, cor, hell, faith, word, rom, holy, life, chap, john, ●, covenant, text, ye, satan, hast, devil, c., city, men, temple, joh, doctrine, righteousness, christian, children, judgment, house, mr., gods

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?"

he, it, his, i, they, them, him, their, you, my, we, us, me, our, thy, thee, your, himself, her, themselves, she, its, mine, one, ye, ours, theirs, ''s, yours, thou, s, u, itself, herself, f, ''em, ●, †, ourselves, l, ay, vvhat, trodden, myself, job, hey, hers, em, elias, cana''n

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, good, own, great, other, many, first, more, same, true, little, poor, holy, saith, much, wise, eternal, very, dead, last, full, old, wicked, whole, second, high, able, right, better, best, doth, new, godly, bad, least, few, glorious, sure, righteous, most, everlasting, open, general, present, like, strong, weak, evil, several, next

not, so, then, also, now, therefore, thus, up, again, yet, here, even, out, as, more, first, only, there, in, away, ever, never, indeed, down, most, well, that, is, very, too, thereof, before, secondly, forth, much, together, still, off, far, all, hence, sometimes, else, rather, once, over, onely, thirdly, further, long

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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