Distant Reader - author-prestonJohn-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 26 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 1,558,052 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 59,925 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:

god, will, man, doe, hee, christ, may, shall, therefore, things, lord, men, must, yet, us, now, good, say, see, bee, heart, wee, know, thing, sinne, spirit, love, come, one, faith, life, first, much, doth, take, though, haue, grace, make, himselfe, every, time, great, saith, let, many, another, consider, nothing, goe

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are The saints qualification: or A treatise I. Of humiliation, in tenne sermons. II. Of sanctification, in nine sermons whereunto is added a treatise of communion with Christ in the sacrament, in three sermons. Preached, by the late faithfull and worthy minister of Iesus Christ, Iohn Preston, Doctor in Divinitie, chaplaine in ordinary to his Majestie, Master of Emmanuel Colledge in Cambridge, and sometime preacher of Lincolnes Inne., The breast-plate of faith and love. A treatise, wherein the ground and exercise of faith and love, as they are set upon Christ their object, and as they are expressed in good workes, is explained. / Delivered in 18 sermons upon three severall texts, by the late faithfull and worthy minister of Iesus Christ, Iohn Preston, Dr. in Divinity, chaplaine in ordinary to his Maiesty, Master of Emmanuel Colledge in Cambridge, and sometimes preacher of Lincolnes Inne., and Riches of mercy to men in misery, or, Certain excellent treatises concerning the dignity and duty of Gods children by the late Reverend and Faithfull Minister of Jesus Christ, John Preston ....

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

inward man, every man, will say, shall finde, holy ghost, hee will, man may, god will, shall see, will doe, may bee, let us, iesus christ, will make, take heed, must know, lord iesus, man will, two things, will come, will bee, new creature, wee must, every thing, may know, must needs, must bee, shall know, shall bee, may see, many things, every one, know whether, wee may, one thing, take christ, difference betweene, lord will, good workes, man doth, apostle saith, nothing else, take away, bring forth, taken away, may doe, hee doth, many times, wee see, wee will

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are Sun-beams of gospel-light shining clearly from severall texts of Scripture, opened and applyed. 1. A heavemly [sic] treatise of the devine love of Christ. 2. The Christians freedome. 3. The deformed forme of a formall profession. 4. Christs fulnesse, and mans emptinesse. By John Preston, doctor in divinity, chaplaine in ordinary to King James, Mr. of Emmanuel Colledge in Cambridge, and sometimes preacher at Lincolnes Inne. Riches of mercy to men in misery, or, Certain excellent treatises concerning the dignity and duty of Gods children by the late Reverend and Faithfull Minister of Jesus Christ, John Preston ..., and The position of John Preston, Doctor in Divinity ... concerning the irresistiblenesse of converting grace.

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, christ, lord, man, tcp, spirit, apostle, law, church, word, saints, hee, gods, ghost, iesus, father, thing, scripture, sacrament, thou, gospell, cor, sonne, sinne, paul, king, grace, doe, psal, love, life, holy, heart, creature, bee, wee, text, sunne, kingdome, gospel, fulnesse, david, churches, christian, yee, world, vse, truth, thee, testament

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 Sun-beams of gospel-light shining clearly from severall texts of Scripture, opened and applyed. 1. A heavemly [sic] treatise of the devine love of Christ. 2. The Christians freedome. 3. The deformed forme of a formall profession. 4. Christs fulnesse, and mans emptinesse. By John Preston, doctor in divinity, chaplaine in ordinary to King James, Mr. of Emmanuel Colledge in Cambridge, and sometimes preacher at Lincolnes Inne. 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, men, heart, hee, thing, life, faith, sinne, grace, time, love, nothing, way, reason, hearts, selves, selfe, nature, world, part, power, hath, end, strength, soule, spirit, death, sinnes, doth, word, sin, case, creature, himselfe, day, affections, others, manner, meanes, knowledge, place, answ, actions, evill, againe, prayer, light, truth, flesh

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, have, was, say, see, know, come, were, doe, take, had, make, bee, let, did, consider, said, made, do, hath, done, makes, put, haue, love, set, comes, give, thinke, doth, bring, being, goe, get, finde, am, keepe, live, taken, answer, given, according, shew, pray, came, receive, humbled, follow

Proper Nouns

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

god, thou, christ, lord, doe, wee, hath, hee, spirit, bee, gods, 〉, ◊, 〈, againe, law, c., haue, owne, goe, sinne, hast, paul, yee, word, mans, heaven, iesus, cor, david, himselfe, apostle, holy, thee, rom, church, ghost, iohn, pag, art, father, gospell, ●, downe, beene, ye, sonne, shalt, wilt, new

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, he, his, they, him, i, we, them, our, your, us, their, thy, my, thee, me, themselves, her, its, she, himself, one, yours, ours, vp, mine, ye, theirs, yee, hee, gods, ourselves, vnto, worke, whosoever, tollit, o, hers, ●, yourselves, whereof, whence, vvith, u, thou, elias, ''s, ‖, yeere

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?"

good, other, great, many, more, such, much, able, true, first, same, new, strong, holy, saith, dead, full, second, little, inward, ready, better, himselfe, outward, perfect, particular, greater, best, right, whole, willing, common, doth, sure, last, own, old, present, least, subject, greatest, wicked, sufficient, third, contrary, wee, rich, haue, hard, enough

not, so, therefore, then, now, is, that, more, yet, first, onely, up, thus, as, out, never, away, much, well, secondly, there, in, else, also, all, here, still, even, indeed, most, off, before, forth, no, ever, whatsoever, thirdly, together, long, very, too, likewise, only, sometimes, hence, otherwise, once, on, vs, further

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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