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?' ---------------------------------------------------------- 11 Average length of all items measured in words; "More or less, how big is each item?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1132 Average readability score of all items (0 = difficult; 100 = easy) ------------------------------------------------------------------ 68 Top 50 statistically significant keywords; "What is my collection about?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8 time 6 great 6 Mr. 5 old 5 little 5 New 5 Indians 5 England 4 St. 4 Sir 4 Lord 4 Don 3 man 3 like 3 good 3 english 3 dutch 3 day 3 York 3 Spain 3 Simon 3 Master 3 Lady 3 Julia 3 Island 3 Hall 3 Fort 3 Colonel 2 spanish 2 history 2 french 2 footnote 2 british 2 William 2 Washington 2 Virginia 2 Van 2 Tibbets 2 Squire 2 Slingsby 2 Seville 2 Phoebe 2 Peter 2 Pennsylvania 2 Netherlands 2 Money 2 Miss 2 Lillycraft 2 Juan 2 Jack Top 50 lemmatized nouns; "What is discussed?" --------------------------------------------- 2850 man 2790 time 2051 day 1467 country 1425 part 1325 place 1165 troop 1020 enemy 1002 letter 993 year 978 house 933 way 899 hand 820 army 801 family 789 head 781 life 775 island 774 night 767 officer 765 force 747 ship 744 name 724 river 699 kind 677 work 670 side 669 eye 665 land 663 friend 639 nothing 638 heart 631 mind 629 war 608 mile 602 people 596 world 593 horse 588 city 587 fire 572 spirit 572 command 570 order 567 course 554 word 553 camp 538 manner 526 party 523 other 514 town Top 50 proper nouns; "What are the names of persons or places?" -------------------------------------------------------------- 2270 Washington 1102 _ 1073 Columbus 995 New 995 General 687 Goldsmith 650 Colonel 604 Indians 540 Congress 533 Sir 519 de 512 Mr. 508 Fort 492 York 478 St. 453 Don 444 Lord 390 Virginia 372 England 359 Johnson 348 Spain 332 Van 295 John 290 Peter 289 French 283 Master 280 Simon 278 Lee 276 Diego 274 William 272 Americans 270 George 269 Henry 265 Island 260 Governor 255 Hudson 245 Boston 236 Arnold 234 River 234 Adelantado 220 Philadelphia 218 lib 218 Point 217 Hall 216 America 210 Greene 208 Spaniards 204 Roldan 204 House 202 Captain Top 50 personal pronouns nouns; "To whom are things referred?" ------------------------------------------------------------- 15800 he 9097 it 6766 i 5568 they 5232 him 3556 them 1714 she 1643 himself 1581 we 1421 me 1380 you 840 her 595 themselves 523 us 311 myself 208 itself 119 herself 100 one 67 thee 51 ourselves 28 mine 21 yourself 14 his 13 yours 13 thyself 10 ours 8 hers 6 theirs 3 delf 3 ''s 3 ''em 2 tart 2 em 1 yourselves 1 ye 1 wigwam 1 viz.--they 1 trite 1 soothe 1 oft 1 o''er 1 note.--we 1 je 1 hymself 1 haply 1 hallow''d 1 ha Top 50 lemmatized verbs; "What do things do?" --------------------------------------------- 42818 be 17562 have 3009 make 2569 take 2128 give 2002 say 1999 do 1442 find 1423 see 1390 come 1062 go 1029 send 1002 receive 996 know 976 bring 930 call 912 pass 908 leave 838 write 816 think 784 keep 773 arrive 749 become 745 seem 721 return 716 set 705 look 699 follow 695 put 670 appear 656 remain 619 hear 584 consider 579 carry 559 get 558 hold 552 throw 544 draw 542 turn 540 bear 530 tell 514 stand 496 fall 492 meet 473 form 455 observe 455 continue 454 show 439 feel 414 lie Top 50 lemmatized adjectives and adverbs; "How are things described?" --------------------------------------------------------------------- 4306 not 2445 great 2288 up 1990 so 1926 more 1827 old 1778 now 1633 other 1446 little 1430 most 1334 out 1279 however 1278 very 1178 such 1178 good 1100 then 1100 much 1062 long 1057 first 1002 well 996 as 993 many 926 own 899 still 886 too 847 off 836 never 834 down 811 same 757 about 756 whole 743 several 735 soon 729 only 710 here 699 thus 683 young 648 even 624 therefore 621 general 615 ever 591 high 582 there 576 on 568 present 555 military 554 once 542 few 531 again 522 also Top 50 lemmatized superlative adjectives; "How are things described to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 250 most 206 good 175 least 116 great 56 high 45 early 33 near 32 eld 30 fine 29 bad 28 large 28 Most 20 happy 18 strong 17 rich 17 old 14 noble 13 young 13 sweet 13 deep 11 slight 10 proud 10 manif 10 brave 9 stout 9 full 9 fair 8 small 8 poor 8 late 8 l 8 dark 7 wise 7 warm 7 tall 7 low 7 bright 7 able 6 wild 6 j 6 hard 6 foremost 5 weak 5 vile 5 simple 5 short 5 lovely 5 long 5 lofty 5 hot Top 50 lemmatized superlative adverbs; "How do things do to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1180 most 27 well 26 least 6 tempest 3 soon 1 youngest 1 oldest 1 near 1 lookest 1 lest 1 infest 1 eldest Top 50 Internet domains; "What Webbed places are alluded to in this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 www.gutenberg.net Top 50 URLs; "What is hyperlinked from this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------- 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/4/2/2/14228/14228-h/14228-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/4/2/2/14228/14228-h.zip Top 50 email addresses; "Who are you gonna call?" ------------------------------------------------- Top 50 positive assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-noun?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 12 washington set out 6 washington did not 6 washington set off 6 washington was not 5 army was now 5 man is apt 5 troops were now 5 washington received intelligence 4 army was not 4 columbus was not 4 enemy did not 4 men are always 4 troops had not 4 washington gave up 4 washington had repeatedly 4 washington was now 3 columbus does not 3 enemy was close 3 troops sent out 3 washington sent out 3 washington set up 2 army did not 2 army was general 2 army was regularly 2 columbus set sail 2 columbus was exceedingly 2 columbus was now 2 countries found happiness 2 country are safe 2 country was forthwith 2 country was land 2 country was thoroughly 2 day came gloomy 2 day is fond 2 day passed away 2 day passed off 2 day was about 2 days were never 2 enemy was thus 2 enemy were now 2 family is always 2 force did not 2 force was thus 2 hands were now 2 house called fort 2 house had probably 2 house has always 2 house is full 2 house look up 2 house took fire Top 50 negative assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-no|not-noun?" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 man does not still 1 _ is no reason 1 _ is not _ 1 columbus made no reply 1 columbus makes no mention 1 columbus was no longer 1 columbus was not singular 1 country is not advanced 1 day is not over 1 days were no doubt 1 days were not sufficient 1 enemy had no present 1 enemy were not aware 1 head has no share 1 island were not yet 1 letter had no effect 1 letter is not extant 1 life was not favorable 1 man gave no ideas 1 name is not frequently 1 name was not ringwood 1 officer being not yet 1 officers had no longer 1 part had not strength 1 place do not so 1 place was no longer 1 place was not then 1 places having no possible 1 ships had no room 1 ships were no longer 1 time was not aware 1 time was not so 1 washington had no pride 1 washington had not merely 1 washington took no prominent 1 washington was no more 1 washington was not always 1 years received no bounty Sizes of items; "Measures in words, how big is each item?" ---------------------------------------------------------- 297728 32987 189043 8519 136959 13515 129300 7002 121794 13042 104968 7993 83947 7994 65041 8571 50003 7948 47673 14228 18746 1850 Readability of items; "How difficult is each item to read?" ----------------------------------------------------------- 74.0 7948 72.0 7994 71.0 7993 70.0 14228 70.0 13515 69.0 8571 68.0 1850 68.0 8519 66.0 7002 64.0 32987 60.0 13042 Item summaries; "In a narrative form, how can each item be abstracted?" ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 13042 And the people lifted up their voices and blessed the good St. Nicholas, and from that time forth the sage Van Kortlandt was held in more which, for a long time, New Amsterdam held but little intercourse. time among the old men and women of New Amsterdam but the vast genius of About this time, the testy little governor of the New Netherlands appears a mighty and great little man, and worthy of being utterly renowned, city of New Amsterdam." "I doubt me much," said Peter Stuyvesant, "that And now my worthy reader is, doubtless, like the great and good Peter, occasioned great surprise in the city of New Amsterdam; nay, certain great a man as Peter Stuyvesant should depend upon the pen of so little a In the proud days of Peter Stuyvesant, however, the good old Dutch Day, during the reign of Peter Stuyvesant, New Amsterdam was the most 13515 To a man from a young country, all old things are in a manner great ones of the earth;" and the little village near the Hall looks old family of this kind, are rarely to be met with at the present day; It is certain that the old lady will, to this day, dwell on the looks The old lady is a great friend of Master Simon, who, indeed, pays a Squire is fond of promoting, is story telling, "a good, old-fashioned love of every thing that smacks of old times, has held so many grave his own way, from having lived time out of mind on the place. the Squire, who considers the race as belonging to the good old times; customs of the good old times were always so very loving and innocent and to look forward, like other great men, to the time when he should 14228 me, in a few days, some rare sport of the good old-fashioned kind. It is certain that the old lady will, to this day, dwell on the looks of The old lady is a great friend of Master Simon, who, indeed, pays a Indeed all the children in the house look up to the old lady with He is, as Master Simon observed, a soldier of the old school, with general seems to have taken Master Simon in hand, and talks of showing Ready-Money Jack Tibbets, that I got Master Simon, a day or two since, squire, Master Simon, and old Christy, came every now and then to a the squire, who considers the race as belonging to the good old times; accomplishments of the good old times, to the squire''s heart''s content, Master Simon and the old general reconnoitred the ground together, and 1850 of the good old gentleman to make his children feel that home was the for so it had certainly been in old times, and the Squire had evidently with his humour in respect to old times, and by having a scrap of an was called on for a good old Christmas song. on Christmas eve but good old English; upon which the young minstrel, The party now broke up for the night with the kind-hearted old custom of household at church on a Christmas morning; considering it a day of little study, the pages of old times were to him as the gazettes of the song, at great tables on Christmas Day. though the old hall may have resounded in its time with many a scene The old ceremony of serving up the boar''s head on Christmas day is still Maskings or mummeries were favourite sports at Christmas in old times; 32987 aides-de-camp, written by the general''s order, inviting Washington to The great object of Washington at present was to force the enemy to The general, accompanied by Mrs. Washington, departed from New York on prevent the men-of-war and enemy''s ships from coming into New York detachment of troops from New York, succeeded to the command; General very few troops to defend that post, having detached Colonel St. Clair, with six or seven hundred men, to Three Rivers, about fifty landing on Gravesend Bay. Washington remained all day, aiding General Putnam with his counsels, The general command of the Hudson was offered by Washington to Arnold; A letter from General Greene received about this time, gave Washington enemy retired before the arrival of the troops detached by Washington. placed him entirely under the command of General Washington. Washington, in general orders, congratulated the army on the arrival 7002 Lawrence Washington had something of the old military spirit of the family, INDIANS--WAR DANCE--GERMAN SETTLERS--RETURN HOME--WASHINGTON AS PUBLIC expect the Governor of New York will be present." [Footnote: Letter of Col. Johnson to Gov. Clinton.--Doc. Hist. the French Commander-general had marched this force from Canada, and made said, had nearly a thousand men with him at the fort, beside Indian allies; COLONIAL ASSEMBLIES--DINWIDDIE''S MILITARY MEASURES--WASHINGTON QUITS THE by the general''s order, inviting Washington to join his staff; the letter MARCH FROM FORT CUMBERLAND--THE GREAT SAVAGE MOUNTAIN--CAMP AT THE LITTLE The general ordered the officers to form the men, tell them off ARRIVAL AT FORT CUMBERLAND--LETTERS OF WASHINGTON TO HIS FAMILY--PANIC OF Washington remained ten days in Boston, attending, with great interest, the MILITARY ARRANGEMENTS--WASHINGTON COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF THE VIRGINIA Washington still was commander-in-chief of the Virginia troops, now desire of General Washington to have the assistance of those officers, the 7948 morning, like a newspaper," said Scott. I found Johnny Bower a decent-looking little old man, in blue coat and The old man in question, I found, was a great favorite with Scott. The last time he saw Scott, he told him he believed he and the laird A small event of the kind makes a great stir in a little quiet country some days with me at the Abbey, we shall have time to examine the old length of the old Abbey garden, passing along the ancient stone wall In an old, time-worn, and mysterious looking mansion like Newstead When the Abbey came into the possession of the late Lord Byron, Joe "One time," said she, "Lord Byron took a notion young lady, a cousin of Lord Byron, who was staying in the Abbey and "You appear to like the memory of Lord Byron," said I. 7993 "You had better, Mr. Goldsmith, let me take care of your money," said Mrs. Milner one day, "as I do for some of the young gentlemen."--"In truth, boy," replied poor Goldsmith, with infinite good-humor; "I shall be richer a great measure, by the good-humored kindness of Goldsmith, who was always In this year Goldsmith became personally acquainted with Dr. Johnson, BOSWELL--DINNER OF DAVIES--ANECDOTES OF JOHNSON AND GOLDSMITH being called upon to give as a toast the ugliest man she knew, she gave Dr. Goldsmith, upon which a lady who sat opposite, and whom she had never met "I received one morning," says Johnson, "a message from poor Goldsmith that The comedy of The Good-Natured Man was completed by Goldsmith early in About this time Goldsmith''s friend and countryman, Lord Clare, was in great "Sir," said he to Boswell, "Goldsmith would no more have asked me to have talking." "Sir," replied Johnson, "Goldsmith knows nothing--he has made up Goldsmith and Johnson, with several other literary characters. 7994 good-natured man, who took the world as it went, and had a kind of laughing time consisted of little books covered with gilt paper, adorned with "Julia, my dear," said he, "Mr. Mountjoy would like to hear a little music Somerville," said I, "loves poetry, and I like her the better for it. time the inhabitants lived in a great state of indifference as to religious Like the great world, this little microcosm has its gradations of rank and Henrietta de Lenoncour, a young girl, of a noble family, of great beauty, "After a time old Barbara got better in mind and body, and matters were "I gave no time for the thought to cool, but entered the house, and stepped said they were going to see their Great Father, to talk about the good of The young men made way for him; an old man who 8519 Columbus arrived at San Domingo, wearied by a long and arduous voyage, and accounts sent home by Columbus of his late discoveries on the coast of Columbus on discovering the New World, and recorded by him in a letter to Don Diego Columbus supposed them to be ships sent from Spain with Columbus himself alludes in his letter sent to the sovereigns by Diego Departure of Columbus for San Domingo.--His Return to Spain. Departure of Columbus for San Domingo.--His Return to Spain. Columbus in his voyages among the West Indian islands, and along the coast The belief in this island has continued long since the time of Columbus. during the time of Columbus, was that of the Island of the Seven Cities. mentions having just received a letter from Columbus, by which it appears by Diego Columbus; forms a plan of returning to Spain; sets sail; his 8571 trees, half shutting out the prospect of the great Tappan Zee. As I looked round upon the scene, my heart yearned at the recollection Mediterranean Sea of the New-Netherlands, stands a little old-fashioned having in old times been subject to supernatural influences, during the this "working-day world" rather like a region of romance. The great gathering-place of Sleepy Hollow in those days was the church. But I have said enough of the good old times of my youthful days; let me had beheld the last lingerings of the good old Dutch times in this once in old times, were the courtesy and generosity of a Spanish cavalier. the good old Dutch times. on the Island of Manhattan, and founded the great city of New-Amsterdam. Thus was the little village of Communipaw for a time like the juvenility, I passed some little time at the ancient city of Catania,