Distant Reader - author-gatakerThomas-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 34 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 1,177,753 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 34,639 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 96. 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, may, non, de, one, haue, man, yet, vs, saith, est, will, shall, good, gods, christ, hee, therefore, much, men, either, well, ad, vnto, also, doe, yea, say, psal, make, himselfe, many, like, now, things, vpon, though, first, owne, doth, time, might, wee, word, onely, ibid, life, quod, roman, faith

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are Of the nature and vse of lots a treatise historicall and theologicall; written by Thomas Gataker B. of D. sometime preacher at Lincolnes Inne, and now pastor of Rotherhith., A plaine and pithy exposition of the second Epistle to the Thessalonians. By that learned & judicious diuine Mr William Bradshaw, sometime fellow of Sidney Colledge in Cambridge. Published since his deceasse by Thomas Gataker B. of D. and paster of Rotherhith, and The ballance of the sanctuarie shewing hovv vve must behaue our selues when wee see and behold the people of God in miserie and oppression vnder the tyranny of their enemies. Written by William Teelinck, minister of the Word of God at Midlebrough in Zealand..

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

roman non, christs body, let vs, may well, haue beene, vnto vs, non est, early english, english books, gods word, vnto god, de temp, books online, like manner, many times, must needs, man may, idem de, de verb, god himselfe, page images, thomas gataker, gods children, haue done, text creation, creation partnership, wee haue, whole world, heathen man, good conscience, wee may, gods people, much lesse, iesus christ, saith salomon, shall haue, may bee, euery one, saith augustine, saith hee, non potest, regard whereof, may haue, holy ghost, de euchar, god will, qui non, might well, shall neuer, make vs

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are A discours apologetical; wherein Lilies lewd and lowd lies in his Merlin or Pasqil for the yeer 1654. are cleerly laid open; his shameful desertion of his own cause is further discovered; his shameless slanders fullie refuted; and his malicious and murtherous mind, inciting to a general massacre of Gods ministers, from his own pen, evidentlie evinced. Together with an advertisement concerning two allegations produced in the close of his postscript. And a postscript concerning an epistle dedicatorie of one J. Gadburie. By Tho. Gataker B.D. autor [sic] of the annotations on Jer. 10.2 and of the vindication of them. Antinomianism discovered and confuted: and free-grace as it is held forth in Gods word: as well by the prophets in the Old Testament, as by the apostles and Christ himself in the New, shewed to be other then is by the Antinomian-party in these times maintained. / By Thomas Gataker, B.D. and pastor of Rotherhith., and Tvvo funeral sermons much of one and the same subiect; to wit, the benefit of death. The former on Philip. 1. 23. The latter on Eccles. 7. 1. By Thomas Gataker B. of D. and pastor of Rotherhith..

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, tcp, psal, gods, lord, cor, apostle, man, christ, haue, matth, church, sauiour, king, est, prophet, non, faith, august, law, good, father, saith, prov, plut, iob, hee, eccles, children, vers, spirit, parents, mr., deus, wife, text, sen., scripture, saviour, psalmist, ibid, heathen, hath, gen., act, wotton, wee, walker, thess, state

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 Antinomianism discovered and confuted: and free-grace as it is held forth in Gods word: as well by the prophets in the Old Testament, as by the apostles and Christ himself in the New, shewed to be other then is by the Antinomian-party in these times maintained. / By Thomas Gataker, B.D. and pastor of Rotherhith. 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, men, ad, things, time, life, others, p., word, one, body, part, day, hee, manner, way, nothing, place, faith, thing, themselues, people, regard, matter, world, times, words, reason, selfe, death, l, r, quod, hand, himselfe, bread, againe, hath, t, truth, p, nature, vse, meanes, grace, end, heart, cap, c, children

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, were, had, have, say, make, haue, being, did, do, made, said, see, come, let, take, done, hath, know, vnto, concerning, saith, taken, been, neuer, doe, bee, set, put, doth, vsed, according, found, liue, called, am, 〈, stand, came, cast, desire, consider, euen, hold, heard, thinke, selfe

Proper Nouns

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

〉, 〈, ◊, god, ●, c., l., de, est, christ, gods, haue, m, psal, q, hath, m., d, s, thou, c, t, g, f, k, doe, lord, yea, y, l, wee, e, christs, u, non, aug., r, hee, b, cor, sed, qui, p, lib, owne, vt, h, vs, church, lot

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, he, his, they, them, i, him, their, we, our, you, my, me, her, us, your, thy, himself, thee, she, its, themselves, vp, u, theirs, s, mine, ours, one, f, vnto, yours, whereof, ye, y, p, o, †, non, k, e, gods, g, z, nō, l, hers, em, ſ, à

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, other, good, non, saith, many, more, same, -, roman, great, much, true, first, whole, like, former, own, able, better, least, most, haue, present, little, greater, free, himselfe, very, wicked, common, holy, godly, christian, second, last, sure, old, best, wise, latter, bad, few, long, worthy, doth, particular, full, due, religious

not, so, then, therefore, more, yet, well, also, as, here, now, onely, out, much, rather, vs, thus, there, indeed, most, first, sometime, very, all, away, long, in, too, before, otherwise, therein, together, ibid, at, nt, thereby, still, that, no, once, is, further, oft, thereof, never, else, far, especially, ever, up

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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