Distant Reader - subject-christianSaints-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 6 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 957,905 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 159,650 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 92. 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:

id, xml, pos, lemma, pc, reg, god, acp, one, vnto, great, sentence, holy, unit, will, religious, shall, francis, father, av, time, sp, speaker, haue, vvb, many, po, life, att, vvi, now, pns, made, world, much, king, cc, christ, man, hauing, hi, himselfe, rendition, first, may, brother, cs, like, also, yet

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are The Seven Champions of Christendom, The chronicle and institution of the Order of the seraphicall father S. Francis conteyning his life, his death, and his miracles, and of all his holie disciples and companions / set foorth first in the Portugall, next in the Spanish, then in the Italian, lastlie in the French, and now in the English tongue., and The famous history of the seven champions of Christendom St. George of England, St. Denis of France, St. James of Spain, St. Anthony of Italy, St. Andrew of Scotland, St. Patrick of Ireland, and St. David of Wales. Shewing their honourable battels by sea and land: their tilts, justs, turnaments, for ladies: their combats with gyants, monsters and dragons: their adventures in foreign nations: their enchantments in the Holy Land: their knighthoods, prowess, and chivalry, in Europe, Africa, and Asia; with their victories against the enemies of Christ. Also the true manner and places of their deaths, being seven tragedies: and how they came to be called, the seven saints of Christendom. The first part..

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

pc xml, pos acp, unit sentence, pos vvb, vvb xml, pos av, pos po, po xml, pos vvi, vvi xml, pos pns, pns xml, av xml, rendition hi, cc xml, cs xml, pos cc, iesvs christ, sp xml, pos pno, nn xml, holy father, sp sp, pno xml, pos vvn, vvn xml, pos vvz, type contract, ab xml, sentence speaker, pos vvd, vvd xml, pos vmb, vvz xml, pos pn, pos crq, pn xml, vmb xml, pos cs, contract lemma, join left, lemma will, will pos, pos uh, sainct francis, frere minors, pos xx, xx xml, one day, lemma shall

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are The Seven Champions of Christendom The enthusiasm of the church of Rome demonstrated in some observations upon the life of Ignatius Loyola., and The famous history of the seven champions of Christendom St. George of England, St. Denis of France, St. James of Spain, St. Anthony of Italy, St. Andrew of Scotland, St. Patrick of Ireland, and St. David of Wales. Shewing their honourable battels by sea and land: their tilts, justs, turnaments, for ladies: their combats with gyants, monsters and dragons: their adventures in foreign nations: their enchantments in the Holy Land: their knighthoods, prowess, and chivalry, in Europe, Africa, and Asia; with their victories against the enemies of Christ. Also the true manner and places of their deaths, being seven tragedies: and how they came to be called, the seven saints of Christendom. The first part..

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:

god, church, lord, francis, father, world, sir, saint, religious, religion, queen, pope, order, life, lady, king, england, court, clare, christ, chap, cardinall, body, bishop, agnes, xml, x_d, who="a04874-tarpax, who="a04874-george, who="a04874-clown, who="a04874-calib, who="a04874-brandron, unit="sentence">.i

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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 a04874, and The life & death of that renowned John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester comprising the highest and hidden transactions of church and state, in the reign of King Henry the 8th, with divers morall, historicall and political animadversions upon Cardinall Wolsey, Sir Thomas Moor, Martin Luther : with a full relation of Qu. Katharines divorce / carefully selected from severall ancient records by Tho. Baily ... 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?":

xml, pc, l, p, id="a04874, time, pos="n2, pos="n1, life, pos="vvi, man, day, world, death, chapter, place, >, order, body, cs, people, manner, himselfe, end, prayer, soule, men, way, others, night, selfe, eyes, wordes, hauing, grace, thing, hand, miracles, nothing, reason, diuine, themselues, p., sort, loue, child, glory, poore, head, woman

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:

was, be, had, were, is, being, said, did, made, are, have, hauing, vnto, came, began, make, called, see, heard, come, haue, went, att, found, know, sent, answeared, been, done, seemed, take, saw, say, according, having, brought, fell, caused, lemma="i, left, do, am, giue, appeared, lett, taken, neuer, desired, knew, took

Proper Nouns

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

id="a04874, w, god, pos="acp, s., pos="d, francis, pos="j, father, pos="vvb, holy, pos="po, christ, pos="pns, thou, xml, pos="cc, lemma="and, lemma="the, iesvs, religious, king, sp, lord, lemma="be, haue, brother, church, pos="av, st., pos="pno, speaker, ●, pos="vvz, sir, pos="vvn, pos="n, unit="sentence"/, 〉, lemma="i, knight, doe, pos="vmb, pos="pn, pos="crq, lemma="of, clare, lemma="a, lemma="my, hath

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, he, him, her, they, it, their, them, i, she, my, you, our, me, we, your, thy, himself, thee, themselves, us, one, its, vp, mine, theirs, vnto, herself, ours, w, myself, br, yours, ye, lemma="thyself, thēselues, lemma="throw, hers, thyself, itself, yee, wr, thou, s, o, lemma="himself, lemma="breast, foorth, ●, †

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?"

pos="n1, other, great, such, many, unit="sentence">.

not, so, then, most, very, more, also, now, only, thus, as, there, much, well, up, yet, together, out, no, therefore, never, att, first, often, here, presently, ever, likewise, away, exceedingly, down, rather, forth, before, off, sooner, far, neere, in, all, long, already, almost, again, vs, alone, thereof, afterward, sometimes, once

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adverbs

Next steps

There is much more to a study carrel than the things outlined above. Use this page's menubar to navigate and explore in more detail. There you will find additional features & functions including: ngrams, parts-of-speech, grammars, named entities, topic modeling, a simple search interface, etc.

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