Distant Reader - author-raleighWalterSir-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 677,044 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 25,075 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 90. 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:

great, men, king, one, may, also, many, yet, will, good, people, made, god, first, things, man, time, shall, prince, state, much, well, make, without, kings, two, therefore, now, reason, every, like, lord, years, power, war, princes, doth, either, part, thousand, end, others, life, world, might, common, must, take, ships, though

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are An abridgement of Sir Walter Raleigh''s History of the world in five books ... : wherein the particular chapters and paragraphs are succinctly abrig''d according to his own method in the larger volume : to which is added his Premonition to princes., Ravvleigh his ghost. Or a feigned apparition of Syr VValter Rawleigh to a friend of his, for the translating into English, the booke of Leonard Lessius (that most learned man) entituled, De prouidentia numinis, & animi immortalitate: written against atheists, and polititians of these dayes. Translated by A. B., and Remains of Sir Walter Raleigh ....

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

sir walter, early english, english books, books online, one hundred, good lord, thousand foot, liuing creatures, every man, page images, walter raleigh, two hundred, text creation, creation partnership, many times, two thousand, like sort, every one, hundred thousand, three hundred, take heed, thousand horse, lord cobham, one thousand, wise men, two sorts, great men, walter rawleigh, without respect, taken away, years old, common people, six hundred, diuine power, popular state, two years, majesties ships, shall find, three things, euery one, many things, may seem, set downe, native commodities, thousand men, three thousand, whole world, hundred horse, four hundred, great difficulty

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are Remains of Sir Walter Raleigh ... An abridgement of Sir Walter Raleigh''s History of the world in five books ... : wherein the particular chapters and paragraphs are succinctly abrig''d according to his own method in the larger volume : to which is added his Premonition to princes., and England''s interest asserted, in the improvement of its native commodities; and more especially the manufacture of wool plainly shewing its exportation un-manufactured, amounting unto millions of loss to His Majesty, and kingdom. With some brief observations of that worthy author Sir Walter Rawley, touching the same. All humbly presented to His Majesty, and both Houses of Parliament. By a true lover of His Majesty, and native country. Licensed by Roger L''estrange..

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:

king, tcp, majesty, government, state, prince, kingdom, country, people, man, lord, land, god, chap, war, subjects, sir, nations, magistrates, english, england, city, walter, trade, soldiers, sea, romans, princes, power, myne, men, majesties, majestie, laws, fortune, council, common, commodities, authority, warre, vertue, spaniards, son, ships, shipping, river, realm, popular, popes, persons

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 great, and The secrets of government and misteries of state plainly laid open, in all the several forms of government in the Christian world / published by John Milton, Esq. 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?":

men, things, people, time, man, reason, kings, part, years, others, end, power, life, nothing, death, thing, body, cause, world, state, nature, example, hath, place, parts, ships, rest, doth, king, way, sort, force, wealth, subjects, times, text, year, peace, means, self, selfe, matter, day, one, respect, course, manner, places, necessity, hand

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, was, are, had, were, have, being, do, made, make, been, did, having, take, sent, called, said, say, taken, found, set, come, done, give, according, know, used, came, given, brought, put, hath, took, forced, thought, see, left, gave, lost, let, find, seeing, hold, held, serve, become, began, call, use

Proper Nouns

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

king, god, prince, c., lord, 〉, men, ◊, princes, 〈, ●, state, sir, hath, war, england, thou, sea, son, majesty, rome, chap, kingdom, government, walter, army, english, tcp, man, father, romans, parliament, city, land, france, lords, alexander, majesties, ships, authority, peace, law, raleigh, owne, fortune, world, trade, haue, power, justice

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, it, he, their, they, them, him, i, my, we, our, your, you, themselves, himself, her, me, us, thy, its, she, thee, theirs, ours, one, vp, yours, mine, whereof, ''em, ye, ●, vnto, tollit, shou''d, lye, yf, whosoever, wh, us''d, unlock, thyself, thou, thēselues, sufficiēt, s, rn, immortall, hé, hiasself

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, great, many, such, good, same, own, more, first, true, common, much, most, whole, little, small, last, second, better, greater, new, old, few, wise, former, best, like, able, least, necessary, greatest, present, long, certain, strong, private, dangerous, rich, contrary, third, fit, free, particular, worthy, next, publick, due, doth, high, general

not, so, then, also, more, most, therefore, only, now, well, as, never, much, out, yet, ever, there, rather, first, very, up, thus, thereof, long, away, far, otherwise, thereby, here, in, over, even, easily, especially, too, likewise, together, off, before, all, often, just, sometimes, therein, indeed, else, onely, down, greatly, chiefly

Next steps

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