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Eric Lease Morgan Number of items in the collection; 'How big is my corpus?' ---------------------------------------------------------- 15 Average length of all items measured in words; "More or less, how big is each item?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 129428 Average readability score of all items (0 = difficult; 100 = easy) ------------------------------------------------------------------ 82 Top 50 statistically significant keywords; "What is my collection about?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 9 Cape 7 January 7 Island 7 Captain 6 South 6 Pole 6 March 6 Hut 5 Point 5 Glacier 5 Evans 5 December 5 Bay 5 Barrier 4 Wilson 4 Scott 4 Party 4 P.M. 4 Oates 4 New 4 February 4 Expedition 4 Camp 4 Atkinson 3 Polar 3 November 3 Meares 3 Land 3 Garrard 3 Discovery 3 Cherry 3 Bowers 3 Antarctic 3 A.M. 2 ship 2 ice 2 boy 2 antarctic 2 Zealand 2 Wild 2 Terra 2 Sea 2 S.W. 2 S.E. 2 Ross 2 Nova 2 N.W. 2 N.E. 2 Mr. 2 Mount Top 50 lemmatized nouns; "What is discussed?" --------------------------------------------- 5573 day 5221 ice 4305 time 3583 mile 3505 man 3245 wind 3240 ship 2798 snow 2603 sledge 2595 sea 2543 dog 2474 water 2319 foot 2229 party 2134 night 2042 way 1922 hour 1725 morning 1682 work 1675 weather 1655 land 1555 side 1494 surface 1467 place 1428 tent 1411 thing 1349 pony 1308 part 1204 island 1196 temperature 1190 journey 1186 one 1167 course 1138 end 1099 food 1096 hand 1092 north 1067 boat 1012 ° 1006 camp 992 south 982 year 972 condition 967 point 929 nothing 914 winter 910 bag 907 sun 907 expedition 894 board Top 50 proper nouns; "What are the names of persons or places?" -------------------------------------------------------------- 7507 _ 1849 Scott 1413 Cape 1104 Evans 1044 S. 1019 Barrier 889 Island 867 hut 847 Captain 834 Hut 804 Wilson 758 South 730 E. 689 Point 622 Pole 594 January 582 Land 578 Expedition 548 Bay 535 W. 514 December 509 Glacier 505 Camp 474 New 466 March 441 February 435 P.M. 427 Mr. 425 Atkinson 420 Discovery 411 Fram 407 Antarctic 401 Party 386 Frank 371 November 361 A.M. 360 Mr 357 Aurora 343 Ross 339 F. 338 Polar 335 Oates 331 Sea 323 Bowers 315 S.E. 309 Jack 294 Crean 289 Zealand 288 Campbell 278 Southern Top 50 personal pronouns nouns; 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"How are things described?" --------------------------------------------------------------------- 8859 not 4661 up 4133 very 3870 so 3672 out 3505 more 2987 good 2784 then 2720 well 2699 now 2661 only 2650 great 2362 first 2266 as 2254 little 2252 other 2143 much 2128 long 2042 down 1848 again 1781 last 1714 most 1601 on 1589 about 1573 away 1530 off 1513 soon 1453 small 1446 few 1416 far 1406 back 1382 same 1369 many 1333 here 1277 bad 1258 in 1249 still 1237 next 1203 high 1158 several 1143 also 1140 large 1109 just 1107 such 1065 there 1026 too 1022 never 1013 heavy 967 even 957 all Top 50 lemmatized superlative adjectives; "How are things described to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 580 good 540 most 385 least 219 bad 217 great 105 near 99 high 83 large 66 Most 48 fine 46 strong 46 slight 44 small 44 low 44 hard 38 farth 33 heavy 31 long 28 late 22 early 18 young 18 warm 18 big 16 short 16 cold 12 wild 11 steep 11 easy 10 southernmost 10 old 10 deep 9 happy 9 dark 9 close 8 weak 8 simple 8 full 7 light 7 keen 7 bare 6 thick 6 brave 5 windy 5 wide 5 weird 5 strange 5 quick 5 pleasant 5 nice 5 grave Top 50 lemmatized superlative adverbs; "How do things do to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1174 most 96 least 50 well 5 worst 3 near 3 hard 1 warmest 1 southernmost 1 quick 1 grimmest 1 greatest 1 freest 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?" ------------------------------------------------- 1 gcowling@laurel.ocs.mq.edu.au Top 50 positive assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-noun?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 15 weather was so 12 surface was so 12 weather was very 11 dogs were not 11 surface was very 11 weather was clear 11 weather was fine 10 ice was very 10 weather did not 9 weather was not 9 wind was not 9 wind was now 8 ice was still 8 surface was good 8 wind was still 7 days went by 7 ice was not 7 scott was not 7 ship did not 7 ship was not 7 weather became fair 7 weather was still 6 dogs came up 6 men did not 6 party did not 6 party got away 6 ponies were not 6 scott was very 6 snow was so 6 thing is certain 6 things are not 6 weather is very 6 weather was bad 5 day was calm 5 day was only 5 dogs did not 5 dogs had not 5 ice became more 5 ice did not 5 ice had not 5 ice was too 5 land was visible 5 night making short 5 party had not 5 party went out 5 ponies are very 5 scott was able 5 sea was not 5 ship was once 5 ship was so Top 50 negative assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-no|not-noun?" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3 land was not far 3 things are not so 3 things get no worse 2 ice had not yet 2 man has not only 2 weather was no better 1 _ had not meantime 1 day was not altogether 1 day was not enough 1 dog was not so 1 dogs are not too 1 dogs do not greatly 1 dogs had not already 1 dogs have not yet 1 dogs was no child 1 dogs were not able 1 dogs were not fastidious 1 dogs were not much 1 dogs were not there 1 dogs were not yet 1 feet are not so 1 feet made no noise 1 foot were not large 1 hours brought no relief 1 hours is not so 1 ice does not always 1 ice have no enemies 1 ice is not far 1 ice is not often 1 ice is not over 1 ice was not far 1 ice was not more 1 ice was not nearly 1 ice was not negotiable 1 ice were not always 1 lands had no future 1 man is no better 1 men see no one 1 men were not capable 1 night brought not only 1 night is no longer 1 night was not sufficient 1 parties was not as 1 parties were not absent 1 party did not already 1 party found no difficulty 1 party is no light 1 party was not as 1 party was not so 1 party were not yet A rudimentary bibliography -------------------------- id = 4229 author = Amundsen, Roald title = The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian Antarctic expedition in the "Fram," 1910-12 — Volume 1 and Volume 2 date = keywords = Aires; Atlantic; Barrier; Bay; Bjaaland; Buenos; Captain; December; February; Fram; Framheim; Hanssen; Hassel; January; Land; Lindström; March; Mount; November; Polar; Pole; Ross; Scott; Sea; South; Stubberud; Whales; Wisting; antarctic summary = New Year''s Day came and went without any change in the ice. but these men succeeded in working their way on foot over sea-ice place came the south-west wind with rain, fog, and foul weather in carry dogs, too, aboard this ship," he would say, every time he came on days, and before the month was half over we had come a good way into long sea voyage, and probably many on board the Fram looked forward dogs themselves saw to its covering with ice, and for the time being a mass of dogs it took some little time before they came across each this way for the first time going south, Hanssen''s dogs had fallen That day we crossed the last crevasse for a long time to come, and reached our good little house again, with two sledges and eleven dogs; was the best day''s work the Fram had done up to that time. id = 14363 author = Cherry-Garrard, Apsley title = The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913 date = keywords = A.M.; Antarctic; Atkinson; Barrier; Beardmore; Bill; Camp; Campbell; Cape; Crean; Depôt; Discovery; Evans; Expedition; February; Glacier; Hut; Island; January; Journey; March; Mount; New; Nova; November; Oates; P.M.; Party; Point; Polar; Pole; Ross; Scott; South; Terra; Wilson; bower; illustration summary = share in all the big journeys and bad times which came to Scott''s main big sea running and the dogs and ponies were having a bad time. Scott, Wilson and Evans walked away over the sea-ice, but were soon back. miles of sea-ice and a good deal of Barrier, but also the end of Glacier sea, and land meet, called Pram Point by Scott in the Discovery days. returning party, for Scott talked of camping on the sea-ice. fourteen days was a long time for a Spring Party to be away sledging and After the motors had been two days on the sea-ice on their way to Hut "To-day we have worked hard and covered a good distance 12 miles, surface Scott travelled from Hut Point to the South Pole in 75 days, and time to-day I think Scott meant trying the right hand of the island or id = 15777 author = Cook, James title = A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World, Volume 1 date = keywords = Account; Adventure; Bay; CHAPTER; Cape; Captain; Forster; Furneaux; Island; N.E.; N.W.; New; Otaheite; Otoo; S.E.; S.W.; Zealand summary = At length day-light came and brought us fair weather; and having stood into Bay. Having got clear of the land, I directed my course for Cape Circumcision. the sea; and some on board thought they saw land also over the ice, bearing This weather continued till near noon the next day; at which time we Having got on board this supply of water, and the Adventure about twothirds as much (of which we stood in great need,) as we had once broke the In the afternoon having but little wind, I brought-to under an island of as the sea run high, we made our course no better than S.S.W. At four o''clock the next morning, the gale had a little abated; and the At day-light in the morning of the 16th, we saw an island of ice to the id = 15869 author = Cook, James title = A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World Volume 2 date = keywords = Account; Bay; CHAPTER; Cape; Captain; Cook; E.S.E.; Island; Isle; Mallicollo; N.E.; N.W.; New; Port; S.E.; S.S.W.; S.W.; Sandwich; Tanna; Wales; Zealand; ship summary = west, we stood to the north for the two high islands; but the wind, verified at three in the afternoon, when high land was seen bearing S.W. Upon this we took in the small sails, reefed the top-sails, and hauling up At sun-rise, having discovered a new land bearing south, and the head, and steered S.S.E. for the south end of the island, having a fine three leagues, to a pretty high point or head-land, situated in latitude could look up to the head of the bay; but as the breeze was faint, a N.E. swell hurtled us over to the west shore; so that, at half past four o''clock the north wind by the island; the other isles lay to the west, and still in doubt if it was an island; for, at this time, land was seen we had seen land several times, but it proved to be high islands of ice id = 6973 author = Goldfrap, John Henry title = The Boy Aviators'' Polar Dash; or, Facing Death in the Antarctic date = keywords = Barrington; Ben; Billy; Captain; Cross; Eagle; Frank; Golden; Harry; Hazzard; Rastus; Southern; Stubbs; Viking; boy; look; professor summary = "That''s the spirit, my boy," exclaimed the captain warmly, as Harry, "Say, Harry," said Frank earnestly, as the boys, having bade their Captain Hazzard evidently wishes kept a mystery till the time comes to As Frank had anticipated, Captain Hazzard agreed to ship Billy Barnes "I beg your pardon," exclaimed Frank, as Captain Hazzard looked up, "Come on, boys," exclaimed Frank, drawing his revolver, "get your The delighted boys followed the old man to Captain Hazzard''s cabin, "Perhaps you are right, my boy," said Captain Hazzard at length, "at "All right, professor," said Ben, with a wink at the boys, "maybe ice "My gracious," suddenly cried the professor as the boys came out from "I want to speak to you boys for a minute," said Captain Hazzard, as "Captain Hazzard knows best," said Frank, shortly. which Captain Hazzard believes the ship is ice-bound," announced Frank id = 6137 author = Mawson, Douglas, Sir title = The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 date = keywords = A.M.; Adelie; Aurora; Australia; Base; Bay; Cape; Captain; Cave; Davis; December; Dr.; Expedition; February; Glacier; Hamilton; Harrisson; Hobart; Hurley; Hut; Island; January; Land; Macquarie; Madigan; Main; March; Mertz; Mr.; New; Ninnis; November; P.M.; Party; September; South; Wild; antarctic summary = Sastrugi furrowed by the mighty winds of the plateau, 250 miles S.S.E. of winter quarters, Adelie Land Working the sledge through broken sea ice, 46 miles off King George V Wild''s party working their sledges through the crushed ice at the foot The wind was blowing at eighty miles per hour, making it tedious work half miles south of the Hut lying on the ice quite well, but there was reached the land just in time; and the sea-ice drifted away to the Next day the light was very bad and the wind fifty miles per hour. Next day the wind was due south at thirty miles per hour. fifty miles per hour, with scarce a day without drifting snow. At twelve miles, blue, wind-swept ice gave place to an almost flat snow ice in a fifty-mile wind with moderate drift close to the Hut and, on id = 18129 author = Mountevans, Edward Ratcliffe Garth Russell Evans, baron title = South with Scott date = keywords = Atkinson; Barrier; Bowers; Campbell; Cape; Captain; Cherry; Evans; Expedition; Garrard; Glacier; Hut; January; Lashly; March; Meares; Nova; Oates; Party; Point; Pole; Scott; South; Terra; Wilson summary = Dogs, ponies, motor sledges and man-hauling parties on ski were to landed on the sea ice and walked a mile or so over it to the little cape For the next few days we continued marching over the Great Ice Barrier, the sea ice from the Barrier edge to reach Hut Point on March 1. some way towards Hut Point over good strong sea ice, cracks became forthcoming pony-sledge work over the Great Ice Barrier. took a small sledge party counting Bowers, Seaman Evans, and Simpson away Great Ice Barrier itself, Scott and his party cheered wildly, and Day Lashly got on to the Barrier, Scott took his party away and they returned sledges, and Lashly and Day got the snow out of the motor, a long and going at a mile an hour pace until 8 p.m. I had left a note at the Corner Camp depot which told Scott of our trying id = 19731 author = Rockwood, Roy title = Under the Ocean to the South Pole; Or, the Strange Cruise of the Submarine Wonder date = keywords = Andy; Bill; Henderson; Jack; Johnson; Mark; Mr.; Porpoise; Professor; Tom; Washington; boy; ship summary = "Hand me that wrench, Mark," called Professor Amos Henderson to a boy "Do you think the ship will work, Professor?" he asked. "Now boys, we''ll see if she works so far," said the professor. "We are only going down a little way," the professor said, "and only At the sound of the voice the professor started and Mark and Jack "I think I''ll go a little nearer the surface," said the professor to "What is it?" asked Mark, as, followed by Jack, he came forward. "I think you and Mark will have to make a trip to town," he said to Jack "It''s Washington!" cried Mark, as he saw Professor Henderson''s colored The manhole cover was opened and Andy, with Jack and Mark, went out on water had come to the surface, the professor, came up on deck to take a "Reverse the ship!" cried Professor Henderson. id = 36802 author = Scott, G. Firth title = The Romance of Polar Exploration Interesting Descriptions of Arctic and Antarctic Adventure from the Earliest Time to the Voyage of the "“Discovery”" date = keywords = Antarctic; Arctic; August; Bay; Cape; Captain; Discovery; Eskimo; Fram; Franklin; Greenland; Island; Land; Lieutenant; Nansen; North; Peary; Polar; Pole; Sir; South; ice summary = notions about ice-ships and dog-sledges, and trusting themselves and ice and so severely crushed that as soon as the winter passed and escape them, a great mass of old ice, over six miles in length and drifting at The following day the main camp was reached, and the white men at once Party take to the Ice and are Cast Away--They build themselves Snow men were on the ice was abandoned, and, as the water was fairly open, On September 4 new ice formed on the water in which the ship was reach the ship in time for relief to come for another day or two, and no winter pressure of the great ice packs in the far North. from the ice, and they were in the water before the men could reach A small party from the _Fram_ was out on the ice at the time, id = 11579 author = Scott, Robert Falcon title = Scott''s Last Expedition, Volume I Being the journals of Captain R. F. Scott date = keywords = A.M.; Atkinson; Barrier; Bowers; Camp; Cape; Cherry; Crozier; December; Evans; February; Friday; Garrard; Glacier; Hut; Island; January; March; Meares; Monday; Oates; P.M.; Party; Point; Pole; Saturday; School; Sunday; Thursday; Tuesday; Wednesday; Wilson summary = Well--A Head Wind--Bad Conditions Continue--At One Ton Camp--Winter We have run 190 miles to-day: a good start, but inconvenient in one Crozier on New Year''s Day. 8 P.M.--Our calm soon came to an end, the breeze at 3 P.M. coming ice for water, snow for the animals, good slopes for ski-ing, vast ponies to come out, and we commenced a good day''s work. 1/4 mile off Hut Point got a clear run to Glacier Tongue. and 2 from Hut Point--a cold east wind; to-night the temperature 19°. Last night the temperature fell to -6° after the wind dropped--to-day Started on a bad surface--ponies plunging a good deal for 2 miles or blowing from 30 to 40 miles an hour all day; drift bad, and to-night Have exercised the ponies to-day and got my first good look at them. Light snow has fallen during the day--to-night the wind id = 5199 author = Shackleton, Ernest Henry, Sir title = South! The Story of Shackleton''s Last Expedition, 1914-1917; Includes both text and audio files date = keywords = Antarctic; Aurora; Caird; Camp; Cape; December; Elephant; Endurance; Evans; Expedition; Georgia; Hut; Island; James; January; Joyce; Mackintosh; March; Point; Sea; South; Stancomb; Weddell; Wild; Wills; Worsley; ice summary = "Two sledging parties will operate from the base on the Weddell Sea. One will travel westwards towards Graham Land, making observations, the afternoon, but at midnight the ship was stopped by small, heavy icefloes, tightly packed against an unbroken plain of ice. I had never seen such a large area of unbroken ice in the Ross Sea. We waited with banked fires for the strong easterly breeze to moderate squally with snow-flurries, and I did not order a start till 11 p.m. The pack was still close, but the ice was softer and more easily east and south-west had no apparent effect upon the ice, and the ship have set the ice in strong movement towards the north, and the southwesterly and west-south-westerly winds that prevailed two days out of boat drifted down towards the ice-floe, where her position was likely S. The pack was well broken a mile from the ship, and the ice was id = 35426 author = Stilson, Charles B. (Charles Billings) title = Polaris of the Snows date = keywords = Polaris; dog; eye; man; snow summary = Kicking an accumulation of loose snow away from the door, the man took dog-team out of the stockade onto the prairie of snow, closing the gate "Of old a great general in that far world of men burned his ships that Polaris unharnessed the pack, and man and dogs crept on board the hulk. In an angle of the ice-wall, a few yards from the ship, Polaris pitched Whipping the dogs back, the son of the snows ran forward to meet the Polaris slept with the dogs, huddled in robes. Like a man in a dream, Polaris heard their voices raised in curses. The girl raised her eyes to his, and they gazed long at one another. fashion at the girl''s hands, and pushed his great head forward for more Crouched among the dogs in the camp, Polaris On the spine of the ridge stood Polaris, leaning on his long spear and id = 6721 author = Turley, Charles title = The Voyages of Captain Scott : Retold from the Voyage of the Discovery and Scott''s Last Expedition date = keywords = Atkinson; Barrier; Bowers; Camp; Cape; Cherry; December; Discovery; Evans; Garrard; Glacier; Hut; January; Lashly; Meares; Oates; P.M.; P.O.; Point; Pole; Scott; Wilson; page summary = days the ship had really to fight her way, and Scott gave high As the days of March went by Scott began really to wonder whether miles off, but hope it is not so much; nine hours'' work to-day work that when the second long Polar night ended, Scott was able to With ponies, motor sledges, dogs, and men parties working hard, following day Scott drove his team to the ship, and when the men For the depôt laying journey Scott''s party consisted of 12 men on Scott saw their sledge track leading round on the sea-ice. Armitage, Scott and his party soon started back to Safety Camp, Gran at Corner Camp, and on the following day Scott, Crean and Two days later another depôt party started to Corner Camp, E. every day, Scott hoped to march longer hours and to make the requisite