Distant Reader - author-prynneWilliam-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 178 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 8,283,469 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 46,799 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 86. 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:

de, et, king, ad, quod, kings, god, per, non, shall, parliament, est, cum, church, may, ut, will, one, qui, pro, made, great, without, men, now, first, see, others, england, vel, bishop, people, bishops, lords, lord, christ, many, anno, yet, therefore, law, rex, quae, power, much, si, ecclesiae, us, time, pope

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are The first-[third] tome of an exact chronological vindication and historical demonstration of our British, Roman, Saxon, Danish, Norman, English kings supreme ecclesiastical jurisdiction from the original planting, embracing of Christian religion therein, and reign of Lucius, our first Christian king, till the death of King Richard the First, Anno Domini 1199 ... / by William Prynne, Esq., The first-[third] tome of an exact chronological vindication and historical demonstration of our British, Roman, Saxon, Danish, Norman, English kings supreme ecclesiastical jurisdiction from the original planting, embracing of Christian religion therein, and reign of Lucius, our first Christian king, till the death of King Richard the First, Anno Domini 1199 ... / by William Prynne, Esq., and Histrio-mastix The players scourge, or, actors tragædie, divided into two parts. Wherein it is largely evidenced, by divers arguments, by the concurring authorities and resolutions of sundry texts of Scripture ... That popular stage-playes ... are sinfull, heathenish, lewde, ungodly spectacles, and most pernicious corruptions; condemned in all ages, as intolerable mischiefes to churches, to republickes, to the manners, mindes, and soules of men. And that the profession of play-poets, of stage-players; together with the penning, acting, and frequenting of stage-playes, are unlawfull, infamous and misbeseeming Christians. All pretences to the contrary are here likewise fully answered; and the unlawfulnes of acting, of beholding academicall enterludes, briefly discussed; besides sundry other particulars concerning dancing, dicing, health-drinking, &c. of which the table will informe you. By William Prynne, an vtter-barrester of Lincolnes Inne..

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

rege apud, teste rege, ecclesiae de, regni nostri, king edward, apud westm, king henry, domini regis, persona ecclesiae, ut supra, ita quod, vobis mandamus, de la, usque ad, ex parte, hac parte, dei gratia, et ad, ad hoc, super hoc, et de, english books, early english, mandatum est, quod si, anno regni, et si, commons house, dominus rex, holy ghost, high treason, quod de, much lesse, quod cum, et quod, books online, king john, domini papae, per ipsum, de bonis, et ideo, quod non, print touching, eo quod, de jure, johannes de, ad nos, rex angliae, eodem modo, curia christianitatis

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are To the honourable the knights, citizens, and burgesses in this present Parliament assembled The humble petition of Clement VValker, and William Prynne, Esquires. A vindication of VViliam Prynne Esquire from some scandalous papers and imputations, nevvly printed and published, to traduce and defame him in his reputation., and A vindication of the imprisoned and secluded Members of the House of Commons, from the aspersions cast upon them, and the majority of the House, in a paper lately printed and published: intituled, An humble answer of the Generall Councel of the officers of the Army under his Excellency Thomas Lord Fairfax, to the demands of the Honourable Commons of England in Parliament assembled: concerning the late securing or secluding some Members thereof..

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:

parliament, king, church, god, lord, house, army, england, law, members, lords, officers, religion, english, commons, churches, ministers, anno, government, bishops, laws, realm, christ, popish, pope, kingdome, kingdom, william, london, father, archbishop, priests, nation, majesty, edward, cor, clergy, city, christians, acts, mat, court, act, tcp, subjects, souldiers, scripture, liberties, iohn, new

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 et, and A true and ful relation of the officers and Armies forcible seising of divers eminent Members of the Commons House, Decemb. 6. & 7. 1648. As also, a true copy of a letter / lately written by an agent for the Army in Paris, dated 28 of Novemb. 1648, to a Member of the said House, a great creature and patriot of the Army; clearly discovering, that their late remonstrance and proceedings do drive on and promote the Jesuits and Papists designes, to the subversion of religion, Parliament, monarchy, and the fundamental laws and government of the kingdom. 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?":

p., ad, quod, kings, men, et, others, people, time, power, day, man, things, king, part, cap, persons, year, name, death, times, words, place, life, apud, c., reason, grace, end, members, peace, m., p, ▪, subjects, way, thing, cause, d, text, years, none, person, hands, world, case, order, h, manner, e

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, is, was, are, have, were, had, being, made, see, said, did, make, do, die, been, take, sent, done, let, put, granted, give, come, according, set, concerning, taken, having, given, say, called, sit, qui, read, printed, used, brought, came, received, summoned, touching, receive, answer, gave, doe, hath, found, held, elected

Proper Nouns

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

de, c., et, king, ●, god, parliament, cum, l., est, church, d., england, lord, christ, lords, bishop, e., rex, vel, quod, anno, h., bishops, qui, 〉, ecclesiae, pope, law, regis, ◊, 〈, london, commons, p, nos, quam, kings, ab, r., ut, house, angliae, popes, non, william, nec, quae, regni, ad

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, it, them, they, he, him, i, our, you, we, your, my, us, themselves, me, her, himself, thy, its, she, thee, theirs, ours, ye, mine, one, yours, vp, u, s, non, whereof, ne, f, em, ian, ●, quo, yow, †, hers, vnto, tollit, diu, quae, oleo, o, yee, severall

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?"

other, such, great, many, same, own, good, first, whole, more, new, true, most, pro, present, very, common, much, late, last, former, non, sundry, old, publike, large, least, second, private, like, free, particular, full, high, contrary, lawfull, next, ancient, holy, certain, due, false, special, greater, necessary, christian, greatest, popish, several, long

not, then, so, now, only, therefore, thus, most, as, more, up, onely, well, there, very, here, first, yet, ever, never, much, out, together, even, likewise, thereof, also, away, all, too, in, especially, long, else, rather, therein, just, before, at, formerly, thereupon, secondly, once, super, whatsoever, off, still, alone, no, over

Next steps

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