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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 30 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 1,656,492 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 55,216 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 99. 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:

xml, id, lemma, pos, pc, reg, shall, will, take, horse, acp, haue, may, sentence, unit, make, good, much, one, sp, speaker, first, vvb, av, two, put, vpon, now, vp, together, must, let, po, vvi, well, like, water, yet, either, great, horses, cc, little, type, best, also, pns, doe, time, bee

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are Herod and Antipater, The Dumb Knight, and Cauelarice, or The English horseman contayning all the arte of horse-manship, as much as is necessary for any man to vnderstand, whether he be horse-breeder, horse-ryder, horse-hunter, horse-runner, horse-ambler, horse-farrier, horse-keeper, coachman, smith, or sadler. Together, with the discouery of the subtill trade or mistery of horse-coursers, & an explanatio[n] of the excellency of a horses vndersta[n]ding, or how to teach them to doe trickes like Bankes his curtall: and that horses may be made to drawe drie-foot like a hound. Secrets before vnpublished, & now carefully set down for the profit of this whole nation: by Geruase Markham..

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

pc xml, pos acp, unit sentence, pos vvb, vvb xml, pos po, pos vvi, po xml, vvi xml, pos av, cc xml, av xml, pos pns, pns xml, pos cc, cs xml, ab xml, pos vvz, sp xml, type contract, sentence speaker, pos pn, sp sp, pn xml, vvz xml, rendition hi, pos vmb, pos vvn, pos pno, vvn xml, pno xml, nn xml, pos crq, vmb xml, join left, contract lemma, pos vvd, vvd xml, pos cs, pos uh, lemma will, will pos, shall take, pos xx, xx xml, note note, uh xml, seg note, note target, sic seg

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are Herod and Antipater The Dumb Knight, and The Complete jockey, or, The most exact rules and methods to be observed for the training up of race-horses shewing how to prepare them for any heats or courses, with the manner of their keepings, instructions for their dressing and looking to their scourings, diets, matches, and racings, with every particular to be observed therein ... : to which is added, the most experienced way for buying horses, and instructions to avoid being cheated upon the like occasion, with a relation of the cheats and tricks the jockies and horse-coursers put on the unexpert buyers ....

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, horse, good, chap, water, haue, english, sunne, little, like, great, saddle, pease, oates, lord, land, king, husbandman, head, hand, giue, egges, butter, ale, xml, winter, white, wheate, wheat, vse, vpon, vinegar, veale, unit="sentence">.i,vs

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 xml, and The English house-vvife Containing the inward and outward vertues which ought to be in a compleate woman. As her skill in physicke, surgery, cookery, extraction of oyles, banqueting-stuffe, ordering of great feasts, preseruing of all sorts of wines, conceited secrets, distillations, perfumes, ordering of wooll, hempe, flax, making cloth, and dying, the knowledge of dayries, office of malting, of oates, their excellent vses in a family, of brewing, baking, and all other things belonging to an houshold. A worke generally approued, and now the fourth time much augmented, purged and made most profitable and necessary for all men, and the generall good of this kingdome. By G.M. 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:

1. xml - Herod and Antipater
2. shall - Cauelarice, or The English horseman contayning all the arte of horse-manship, as much as is necessary for any man to vnderstand, whether he be horse-breeder, horse-ryder, horse-hunter, horse-runner, horse-ambler, horse-farrier, horse-keeper, coachman, smith, or sadler. Together, with the discouery of the subtill trade or mistery of horse-coursers, & an explanatio[n] of the excellency of a horses vndersta[n]ding, or how to teach them to doe trickes like Bankes his curtall: and that horses may be made to drawe drie-foot like a hound. Secrets before vnpublished, & now carefully set down for the profit of this whole nation: by Geruase Markham.
3. thy - Marie Magdalens lamentations for the losse of her master Iesus

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:

1. xml, id, pos - Herod and Antipater
2. horse, shall, haue - Cauelarice, or The English horseman contayning all the arte of horse-manship, as much as is necessary for any man to vnderstand, whether he be horse-breeder, horse-ryder, horse-hunter, horse-runner, horse-ambler, horse-farrier, horse-keeper, coachman, smith, or sadler. Together, with the discouery of the subtill trade or mistery of horse-coursers, & an explanatio[n] of the excellency of a horses vndersta[n]ding, or how to teach them to doe trickes like Bankes his curtall: and that horses may be made to drawe drie-foot like a hound. Secrets before vnpublished, & now carefully set down for the profit of this whole nation: by Geruase Markham.
3. shall, haue, ground - The English husbandman. The first part: contayning the knowledge of the true nature of euery soyle within this kingdome: how to plow it; and the manner of the plough, and other instruments belonging thereto. Together with the art of planting, grafting, and gardening after our latest and rarest fashion. A worke neuer written before by any author: and now newly compiled for the benefit of this kingdome. By Garuis Markham
4. water, shall, make - The English house-vvife Containing the inward and outward vertues which ought to be in a compleate woman. As her skill in physicke, surgery, cookery, extraction of oyles, banqueting-stuffe, ordering of great feasts, preseruing of all sorts of wines, conceited secrets, distillations, perfumes, ordering of wooll, hempe, flax, making cloth, and dying, the knowledge of dayries, office of malting, of oates, their excellent vses in a family, of brewing, baking, and all other things belonging to an houshold. A worke generally approued, and now the fourth time much augmented, purged and made most profitable and necessary for all men, and the generall good of this kingdome. By G.M.
5. vo, ram, slope - A schoole for young souldiers containing in breife the whole discipline of vvarre, especially so much as is meet for captaine to teach, or the souldior to learne, that is, to trayne or to bee trayned : fit to be taught throughout England.

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?":

xml, pc, l, horse, p, id="a06975, pos="n1, water, >, pos="n2, horses, pos="vvi, time, ground, part, day, cs, place, hand, manner, head, man, vse, body, halfe, earth, nature, foure, cleane, euery, side, againe, fire, way, wine, others, selfe, end, strength, thing, hee, oyle, times, morning, cure, mouth, men, pound, labour, quantity

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, take, are, make, put, let, being, haue, made, come, giue, was, lay, were, according, set, vse, see, bee, do, did, bring, done, know, stand, keepe, hauing, lemma="i, cut, have, called, vpon, drinke, boyle, shal, draw, had, doe, say, lemma="your, taken, grow, ouer, beate, note, making, neuer, finde, call

Proper Nouns

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

w, id="a06982, id="a06975, pos="acp, pos="d, pos="j, pos="vvb, xml, pos="po, pos="cc, pos="n, haue, pos="pns, lemma="be, pos="vvz, unit="sentence"/, sp, lemma="and, speaker, pos="pn, lemma="the, pos="av, chap, doe, ●, 〉, pos="vmb, pos="pno, vp, pos="vvn, lemma="my, lemma="i, pos="crq, lemma="a, ◊, hath, 〈, bee, horse, type="contract2, lemma="you, lemma="of, lemma="it, downe, pos="vvi, lemma="in, lemma="that, pos="uh, owne, lemma="have

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, you, his, your, them, him, they, i, he, their, my, her, our, we, me, she, vp, thy, its, mine, thee, himself, one, vnto, yours, themselves, us, s, lemma="thyself, lemma="breast, ours, lemma="throw, hay, theirs, em, w, hey, tart, lemma="back, ile, hers, foorth, >, ●, your

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?"

pos="n1, other, good, such, much, great, little, unit="sentence">.