Distant Reader - author-taylorThomas-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 25 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 2,439,770 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 97,590 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, christ, must, man, will, men, good, shall, hee, one, may, himselfe, lord, gods, things, word, sinne, haue, many, first, owne, church, yet, now, vs, us, faith, life, grace, heart, onely, bee, great, world, wee, spirit, doe, time, without, much, see, selfe, come, let, also, make, vnto, therefore, death, power

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are A commentarie vpon the Epistle of S. Paul written to Titus. Preached in Cambridge by Thomas Taylor, and now published for the further vse of the Church of God. With three short tables in the end for the easier finding of 1. doctrines, 2. obseruations, 3. questions contained in the same, Christs victorie over the Dragon: or Satans downfall shewing the glorious conquests of our Saviour for his poore Church, against the greatest persecutors. In a plaine and pithy exposition of the twelfth chapter of S. Iohns Revelation. Delivered in sundry lectures by that late faithfull servant of God, Thomas Taylor Doctor in Divinitie, and pastor of Aldermanbury London. Perfected and finished a little before his death., and Christs combate and conquest: or, The lyon of the tribe of Iudah vanquishing the roaring lyon, assaulting him in three most fierce and hellish temptations. Expounded, and now (at the request of sundry persons) published for the common good, by Tho. Taylor, preacher of the word of God, at Reeding in Barkeshire.

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

jesus christ, iesus christ, wee must, wicked men, let vs, holy ghost, let us, christ himselfe, must bee, gods word, god will, gods people, high priest, much lesse, good heart, good things, shall bee, hee will, good men, god himselfe, man may, euery man, every man, vnto god, wee may, may bee, must needs, thine owne, godly man, good workes, every one, vnto vs, eternall life, one another, lord iesus, two things, new testament, good conscience, right hand, wicked man, cast downe, three things, one day, will make, euery one, shall see, difference betweene, hee must, gods children, new creature

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are Peter his repentance shewing, among other things, these two points for edification I. what weakenes remaines in Gods owne children, especially in times of triall and danger, and to, what little cause they have to trust their hearts, or be confident of themselves, but get to be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. II. what is the power of Gods grace and covenant, for renewing His children by repentance, and so, what encouragement they have to return after every fall, and goe on in their course of watchfulnesse, humiliation, prayer, and magnifying of Jesus Christ / by Dr. Thomas Taylor. Moses and Aaron, or, The types and shadovvs of our Saviour in the Old Testament opened and explained / by T. Taylor ..., and The Kings bath Affording many sweet and comfortable obseruations from the baptisme of Christ. Gathered by Thomas Taylor, preacher of the word of God at Redding in Barkshire..

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:

lord, god, church, christ, gods, psal, man, tcp, christian, spirit, saints, law, father, word, rom, king, gospell, apostle, kingdome, cor, act, sonne, scripture, master, mat, iesus, ghost, angels, temple, saviour, satan, religion, prophet, papists, moses, israelites, israel, iohn, iewes, good, disciples, dauid, testament, sunne, scriptures, sauiour, salomon, prou, prince, pope

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 A mappe of Rome liuely exhibiting her mercilesse meeknesse, and cruell mercies to the Church of God: preached in fiue sermons, on occasion of the Gunpowder Treason, by T.T. and now published by W.I. minister. 1. The Romish furnace. 2. The Romish Edom. 3. The Romish fowler. 4. The Romish conception. To which is added, 5. The English gratulation. 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, things, life, faith, heart, grace, sinne, word, world, time, hee, death, power, way, selfe, himselfe, people, truth, day, others, thing, meanes, nothing, place, sinnes, hand, earth, part, doctrine, soule, nature, themselues, owne, children, glory, light, peace, hath, end, body, spirit, enemies, reason, none, conscience, persons, house, religion, fire

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, see, come, being, let, make, did, made, called, set, bee, say, haue, take, cast, know, said, put, hath, seeing, neuer, doe, according, bring, done, came, do, vse, vnto, stand, consider, taken, keepe, get, hold, brought, found, heare, makes, fall, thinke, become, give, having

Proper Nouns

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

god, christ, thou, lord, church, gods, 〉, 〈, ◊, hath, wee, owne, hee, doe, spirit, c., haue, yea, law, himselfe, word, king, satan, bee, heaven, cor, christs, rom, israel, father, downe, sinne, christian, moses, jesus, psal, apostle, vp, paul, gospell, sonne, loue, christians, holy, lords, iesus, peter, vs, iohn, mans

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, they, their, them, him, our, we, i, thy, her, us, my, you, themselves, thee, me, she, your, himself, vp, theirs, ours, one, its, mine, vnto, ye, elias, yours, thou, †, hee, yee, whereof, ourselves, ‖, whosoever, hers, gods, itself, non, instructiō, wil, thēselues, o, lye, heareth, givē

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, such, many, other, great, more, true, same, whole, wicked, first, holy, much, godly, former, himselfe, little, new, most, second, high, full, dead, least, common, better, best, old, able, christian, present, false, right, own, strong, free, wise, sound, greater, last, greatest, outward, haue, sweet, rich, pure, saith, small, faithfull, like

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

Next steps

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