Distant Reader - author-essexArthurCapelEarlOf-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 2021-05-24 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 27 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 47,911 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 1,774 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 80. 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:

tcp, text, eebo, english, lord, majesties, tei, lieutenant, ireland, shall, council, essex, texts, kingdom, early, characters, books, encoded, day, persons, dublin, will, oxford, county, xml, online, encoding, partnership, phase, title, within, th, general, first, images, given, whereas, image, time, one, project, proquest, based, available, markup, work, works, data, page, keying

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are Whereas wee are informed, that divers merchants, strangers, & others, have lately brought into this kingdom several peices [sic] of Dutch coyne, commonly known by the name of new lyon dollars, stamped with a lyon rampant on the one side ... by the Lord Lieutenant and Council, Essex., Whereas we are informed, that the price of corn, and all sorts of grain and meal, is grown excessive great in severall parts of this kingdom, and the same doth arise (as is conceived) not so much from the scarcity of the store, as from the great quantities of corn that have been of late carried out of this countrey into foreign parts, and also from the ill disposed minds of the countrey-farmers and corn-masters at home ... by the Lord Lieutenant and Council, Essex., and Whereas we are informed, that in many cities and towns corporate within this kingdom, greater customers, tolls and duties than are really due, have been of late exacted in right of the said corporations, upon goods imported or exportd into or out of the said cities and towns corporate, to the great prejudice of His Majestie his customers, the decay of trade, and the discouragement of merchants ... by the Lord Lieutenant and Council, Essex..

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

lord lieutenant, english books, early english, books online, creation partnership, text creation, page images, image sets, characters represented, represented either, tcp schema, joseph wilde, benjamin tooke, th day, mona logarbo, bearing date, arthur capel, without asking, tcp aimed, meet qa, later edition, diplomatic transcriptions, one copy, critical editions, first editions, monographic english, publisher proquest, within braces, external keying, proquest via, produce large, characters will, strings within, tcp texts, tcp project, anonymous work, markup reviewed, public domain, markup guidelines, qa standards, text transcribed, tcp files, character entities, text encoding, mnemonic sdata, text selection, general aim, creative commons, using tcp, providing financial

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are Whereas wee are informed, that divers merchants, strangers, & others, have lately brought into this kingdom several peices [sic] of Dutch coyne, commonly known by the name of new lyon dollars, stamped with a lyon rampant on the one side ... by the Lord Lieutenant and Council, Essex. Whereas we are informed, that the price of corn, and all sorts of grain and meal, is grown excessive great in severall parts of this kingdom, and the same doth arise (as is conceived) not so much from the scarcity of the store, as from the great quantities of corn that have been of late carried out of this countrey into foreign parts, and also from the ill disposed minds of the countrey-farmers and corn-masters at home ... by the Lord Lieutenant and Council, Essex., and Whereas we are informed, that in many cities and towns corporate within this kingdom, greater customers, tolls and duties than are really due, have been of late exacted in right of the said corporations, upon goods imported or exportd into or out of the said cities and towns corporate, to the great prejudice of His Majestie his customers, the decay of trade, and the discouragement of merchants ... by the Lord Lieutenant and Council, Essex..

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, majesties, lieutenant, lord, county, town, sir, port, officers, majesty, kingdom, john, esqs, act

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 text, and Whereas application hath been made to His Majestie by John Forth, and other the late farmers of His Majesties revenue in this kingdom, setting forth, that there are still due and owing to them several great arreares and other summs of mony ... by the Lord Lieutenant and Council, Essex. 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?":

text, texts, characters, day, persons, xml, books, title, images, image, time, works, work, project, page, keying, encoding, elements, eebo, edition, data, purposes, users, sets, selection, schema, markup, instances, guidelines, editions, letters, date, extent, subjects, reason, king, arms, nature, kingdom, quantities, companies, year, print, leaves, quality, number, mind, process, web, variety

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:

be, said, are, have, was, is, been, were, encoded, do, given, based, according, represented, published, take, sold, marked, made, created, create, corrected, -, did, make, remain, require, known, issued, granted, sent, remaining, meet, intended, give, carried, use, returned, performed, transcribed, produce, included, bear, appears, using, understanding, transformed, simplify, scanned, reviewed

Proper Nouns

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

tcp, lord, majesties, lieutenant, ireland, essex, council, text, tei, eebo, dublin, kingdom, oxford, english, county, proquest, phase, partnership, creation, majesty, sir, joseph, utf-8, unicode, p5, online, ncbel, michigan, john, transcribed, benjamin, wilde, tooke, general, majestie, thomas, officers, mac, o, arthur, act, mona, logarbo, january, esq, william, earl, vs, proclamation, port

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, we, them, they, our, it, your, themselves, i, us, he, him, you, whereof, himself

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, early, other, english, first, available, same, due, several, general, illegible, good, respective, great, own, late, greater, usual, true, large, possible, clear, subject, second, wide, textual, syntactic, structural, readable, quality, public, overall, original, monographic, lossless, light, later, last, keyboarded, financial, external, eligible, editorial, displayable, diplomatic, critical, compelling, commercial, basic, aware

not, then, therefore, so, online, now, thereof, very, also, in, hereby, out, even, usually, sometimes, over, never, variously, respectfully, notably, mainly, accurately, above, whatsoever, therein, late, thereby, most, next, strictly, much, further, hereafter, up, thereupon, lately, onely, commonly, more, well, unto, there, straightly, as, only, oge, graciously, together, still, immediately

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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