Summary of your 'study carrel' ============================== This is a summary of your Distant Reader 'study carrel'. The Distant Reader harvested & cached your content into a collection/corpus. It then applied sets of natural language processing and text mining against the collection. The results of this process was reduced to a database file -- a 'study carrel'. The study carrel can then be queried, thus bringing light specific characteristics for your collection. These characteristics can help you summarize the collection as well as enumerate things you might want to investigate more closely. Eric Lease Morgan May 27, 2019 Number of items in the collection; 'How big is my corpus?' ---------------------------------------------------------- 6 Average length of all items measured in words; "More or less, how big is each item?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 108991 Average readability score of all items (0 = difficult; 100 = easy) ------------------------------------------------------------------ 7 Top 50 statistically significant keywords; "What is my collection about?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4 Cicero 3 roman 3 man 3 Scipio 3 Scaevola 3 Cato 2 thing 2 good 2 friendship 2 footnote 2 Sulpicius 2 State 2 Rome 2 Latin 2 Laelius 2 Greek 2 Cotta 2 Caius 2 Brutus 2 Antonius 2 Africanus 1 old 1 nature 1 mind 1 life 1 let 1 history 1 great 1 god 1 deity 1 age 1 Zeno 1 Velleius 1 Stoics 1 Speaker 1 Socrates 1 Servius 1 Romulus 1 Quintus 1 Pythagoras 1 Publius 1 Pompeius 1 Plato 1 Pansa 1 Orator 1 Orations 1 Mutina 1 Marcus 1 Lælius 1 Lucius Top 50 lemmatized nouns; "What is discussed?" --------------------------------------------- 3306 man 1434 thing 949 time 829 people 812 one 761 law 716 kind 701 mind 701 life 678 nature 668 nothing 656 word 578 cause 578 case 551 opinion 547 manner 546 part 542 friend 521 reason 466 power 466 place 460 republic 441 argument 438 name 423 death 416 virtue 415 friendship 410 body 399 day 386 person 381 other 375 war 371 subject 357 order 346 city 344 father 343 way 340 language 335 topic 325 age 320 question 317 citizen 315 character 314 anything 311 orator 298 speech 297 action 292 year 286 sort 285 number Top 50 proper nouns; "What are the names of persons or places?" -------------------------------------------------------------- 4312 _ 405 senate 402 Antonius 309 Brutus 304 Caesar 287 Scipio 236 Gods 235 Cicero 207 Greek 188 C. 186 M. 182 Marcus 173 Greeks 171 Caius 170 Orator 160 Rome 144 Lucius 129 Plato 121 Eloquence 113 God 106 Cato 104 P. 98 Crassus 97 Laelius 94 Epicurus 90 Greece 90 Africanus 88 A. 87 Italy 86 Footnote 84 State 83 Stoics 83 Aristotle 82 Romans 80 Dolabella 80 Cotta 79 Publius 79 Pompeius 79 Latin 77 heaven 76 Sulpicius 76 Quintus 76 Jupiter 75 Gracchus 74 Socrates 73 Lælius 73 Athens 70 L. 70 Commonwealth 69 Scaevola Top 50 personal pronouns nouns; "To whom are things referred?" ------------------------------------------------------------- 6486 it 5646 he 4828 i 3996 you 3112 we 2726 they 1626 them 1557 him 1010 us 893 me 793 himself 423 itself 371 themselves 231 myself 221 she 163 one 145 yourself 116 ourselves 86 her 58 herself 48 yours 26 his 23 theirs 14 mine 13 oneself 10 ours 4 yourselves 3 thee 3 hers 1 ye 1 veniret_--"she 1 tychas.]--med 1 theseus 1 ripen''d 1 metaphorically,--"_you 1 mariners?--they 1 agreeable,--that 1 --"what 1 --"_nobody Top 50 lemmatized verbs; "What do things do?" --------------------------------------------- 28371 be 8694 have 2792 do 2184 say 966 make 900 think 847 give 840 call 817 speak 697 take 671 see 589 appear 479 come 450 know 445 consider 427 let 394 use 371 seem 367 bear 358 find 329 wish 329 bring 282 follow 279 show 278 hear 272 mention 261 go 258 mean 252 become 249 live 246 receive 241 allow 229 write 228 employ 227 leave 218 explain 216 put 216 look 215 derive 205 concern 200 suppose 198 happen 197 add 195 proceed 195 pass 192 produce 191 ask 189 understand 186 seek 185 require Top 50 lemmatized adjectives and adverbs; "How are things described?" --------------------------------------------------------------------- 5155 not 1907 so 1597 more 1380 then 1308 great 1166 other 1114 most 1028 very 969 only 942 same 877 even 823 own 810 many 804 such 797 also 772 good 741 now 735 first 711 therefore 671 well 625 indeed 591 much 523 still 507 as 499 never 481 too 389 up 388 often 374 long 366 rather 347 old 340 ever 337 thus 333 whole 332 always 323 roman 307 different 294 wise 294 far 293 out 288 common 287 yet 286 able 280 just 278 certain 277 all 269 however 269 here 261 proper 248 happy Top 50 lemmatized superlative adjectives; "How are things described to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 269 great 182 good 145 least 137 most 118 high 22 low 21 early 18 wise 13 bad 12 strong 12 noble 12 close 12 brave 11 near 11 able 10 slight 10 l 9 warm 9 large 8 manif 8 fine 6 small 6 easy 5 short 5 sharp 5 pure 5 old 5 happy 5 bright 4 sure 4 long 4 late 4 full 4 farth 3 true 3 ob 3 nice 3 lofty 3 heavy 3 foul 3 eld 3 deep 3 dear 3 clear 3 bitter 2 wealthy 2 sweet 2 soft 2 sage 2 rich Top 50 lemmatized superlative adverbs; "How do things do to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 977 most 32 well 19 least 2 lest 1 highest Top 50 Internet domains; "What Webbed places are alluded to in this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Top 50 URLs; "What is hyperlinked from this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------- Top 50 email addresses; "Who are you gonna call?" ------------------------------------------------- Top 50 positive assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-noun?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 20 nothing is more 14 man is always 9 man is not 7 men are not 6 man does not 6 nothing is so 5 death is not 5 nothing is good 4 _ mean _ 4 man is free 4 nothing is better 4 one was ever 3 case is different 3 man has ever 3 men are accustomed 3 men are so 3 nothing is superior 3 one does not 3 one is not 3 one is so 3 reason is there 3 things are not 3 things have not 2 _ is more 2 _ is not 2 _ was not 2 arguments are also 2 case is not 2 case is once 2 death is so 2 friendship is not 2 friendship is only 2 friendships are eternal 2 law does not 2 law was not 2 life be worth 2 life is happy 2 man be subject 2 man did not 2 man has not 2 man is better 2 man is liable 2 man is subject 2 manner was not 2 men are divine 2 men are miserable 2 men are more 2 men do not 2 men find fault 2 men had not Top 50 negative assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-no|not-noun?" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 death is not only 2 man is not subject 1 _ had no expansion 1 _ had not cicero 1 _ has no more 1 _ is not equally 1 _ was not so 1 argument does not always 1 arguments have not equal 1 body are not well 1 case is not admissible 1 case is not such 1 cause has no origin 1 cause is not apparent 1 death has no connection 1 death is no evil 1 death is not free 1 death was not so 1 friends are no less 1 friends are not infrequently 1 friendship has no greater 1 kind are not necessary 1 kind has no connexion 1 law was not deficient 1 law was not then 1 life is no life 1 man did not merely 1 man does not altogether 1 man has no bearing 1 man has not yet 1 man is not always 1 man is not capable 1 man is not happy 1 man makes no addition 1 men are not equally 1 men are not sensible 1 men are not simply 1 men are not therefore 1 men are not worthy 1 men has no need 1 men know no bound 1 mind has no name 1 name is not so 1 nature has not only 1 nature is not perfect 1 nature is not usually 1 one have no existence 1 one is not properly 1 one took no pains 1 opinion was no result Sizes of items; "Measures in words, how big is each item?" ---------------------------------------------------------- 225238 11080 182249 14988 79734 9776 30115 2808 27618 7491 2812 Readability of items; "How difficult is each item to read?" ----------------------------------------------------------- 75.0 2808 73.0 14988 72.0 7491 70.0 11080 62.0 9776 2812 Item summaries; "In a narrative form, how can each item be abstracted?" ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 11080 man of that rank in which the senate and people of Rome have placed reason for having a new law to inquire into the conduct of the man who Antonius was leading an army against the Roman people at the time At times he says that that man who set the senate house on fire the Roman people, given men kingdoms for bribes, imposed laws on the and such a man I think ought to be erased from the catalogue of men, the kind of cause under discussion requires; as if a man were For to many men a man appears to speak with brevity who things belong to persons, a name, nature, a way of life, fortune, And, in the first place, let us consider what kind of thing that is argument is a reason which causes men to believe a thing which would 14988 Grecians, men of no great courage, but as wise as human nature will I think you said that it was your opinion that a wise man was has great power to make all grief the less, a man should at all times worthy a great philosopher if you thought those things good which are things, so in like manner we naturally seek to avoid what is evil; and The body is said to be in a good state when all those things on and killing time in what I then said?--that the mind of a wise man was for in his books concerning the nature of the Gods no divine form is which is the mind and reason, is the great principle of nature, happy life than the nature of the Gods, because men enjoy various kinds that there was no such thing as natural law; that all men and 2808 TREATISES ON FRIENDSHIP AND OLD AGE wisest man of his day; in this Laelius speaks on friendship--Laelius, in recalling our friendship, that I look upon my life as having been a selection of our friends as never to enter upon a friendship with a man friends that a good (which may be regarded as equivalent to a wise) man old friends, just as we prefer young to aged horses? reason, for instance, which prevents good men from making friends with wish, to become old men--you would allow us to learn from you in good speak of myself; though that indeed is an old man''s way and is generally wisdom of old age--all have a certain natural advantage which should This kind of good fortune, then, it is in the power of old men to enjoy; a short time, especially in the case of an old man: after death, indeed, 2812 7491 5. True friendship can exist only among good men. friendship but while the relation of kindred minds and souls has lost friend of Scipio Africanus the Elder, was born B.C. 186, a little The friendship of Laelius and the younger Scipio Africanus well deserves Cicero and Atticus were as close friends as Scipio and Laelius; but they Love, which in our language gives name to friendship, [Footnote: is more difficult than for friendship to last through life; for friends friendship the authority of friends who give good counsel may be of the . He will yield so far to friendship as to wish his friend''s But, to return to Scipio, who was all the time talking about friendship, avail ourselves of friendships in which the characters of our friends or--what is the same thing--a wise man [Footnote: Wisdom and goodness That, however, is no friendship, in which one of the (so-called) friends 9776 Rutilius; neither of whom, indeed, had the reputation of being a firstrate Orator, though each of them pleaded a number of causes. critic, than admired as an eloquent speaker."--"Indeed," said Brutus, Brutus, "must be the art of speaking, when such consummate Orators as may likewise observe," said I, "in the present instance, that two Orators really an excellent Orator, and a man of good learning, should be willing next in merit to the first Orators of the age; and that merely, as I said of the Roman language of all the Orators that have yet appeared: and that Eloquence."--"You mean, I suppose," said Brutus, "C. good-manners of an Orator:--and every one who pretends to speak in public Orator; but that all in general who are truly eloquent, are likewise kind of _number_ to be observed by an Orator, which we shall treat of in