Distant Reader - subject-christianUnion-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 22 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 730,305 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 33,195 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 90. 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:

church, one, will, god, may, men, christ, us, churches, must, yet, communion, man, shall, things, another, many, power, love, much, make, true, say, good, great, therefore, now, spirit, first, peace, others, body, though, every, people, christian, way, world, thing, without, made, christians, faith, think, part, let, take, doth, government, necessary

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are The true and only way of concord of all the Christian churches the desirableness of it, and the detection of false dividing terms / opened by Richard Baxter., Irenicum, to the lovers of truth and peace heart-divisions opened in the causes and evils of them : with cautions that we may not be hurt by them, and endeavours to heal them / by Jeremiah Burroughes., and The way of true peace and unity in the true church of Christ in all humility and bowels of love presented to them / by William Dell..

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

one another, particular church, true church, let us, jesus christ, catholick church, one body, holy ghost, particular churches, every one, every man, universal church, one church, will never, english books, early english, must needs, christian church, amongst us, books online, will say, whole church, tell us, catholick communion, gods word, take heed, one spirit, much less, god will, true churches, christian world, page images, many things, text creation, creation partnership, men will, man may, godly men, tells us, men may, will make, church may, ipso facto, visible church, love one, one thing, one man, christian communion, christian religion, many churches

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are A briefe declaration of the universalitie of the Church of Christ, and the unitie of the Catholike faith professed therein delivered in a sermon before His Maiestie the 20th. of Iune 1624. at Wansted. By Iames Ussher, Bishop of Meath. An epistle for true love, unity, and order in the Church of Christ, against the spirit of discord, disorder and confusion &c. recommended to friends in truth, chiefly for the sake of the weak and unstable minded ... / by Anne Whitehead, Mary Elson., and The great necessity of unity and peace among all Protestants, and the bloody principles of the papists made manifest by the most eminently pious and learned Bishop Usher ....

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:

church, god, churches, christ, lord, tcp, spirit, communion, power, people, government, christians, scripture, ministers, love, law, christian, religion, man, king, covenant, bishops, world, pastors, men, magistrate, gospel, father, body, worship, state, schism, saints, repentance, pope, peace, office, kingdom, holy, head, gospell, ghost, general, faith, england, divisions, council, concord, city, catholick

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 church, and The way of true peace and unity in the true church of Christ in all humility and bowels of love presented to them / by William Dell. 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?":

men, man, things, others, power, churches, way, thing, people, body, peace, part, church, world, time, hath, members, faith, self, love, work, nothing, sin, p., none, words, truth, one, word, unity, reason, place, communion, doth, religion, spirit, name, parts, order, divisions, heart, nature, cause, hearts, life, selves, scripture, matter, case, mens

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, have, was, do, were, had, make, say, made, being, been, think, did, take, let, know, see, done, called, come, according, give, said, hath, set, live, put, given, believe, am, bound, prove, speak, hold, keep, call, cast, receive, tell, taken, agree, communicate, deny, use, go, love, having, received

Proper Nouns

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

church, god, christ, communion, 〉, churches, ◊, 〈, christians, hath, spirit, christian, c., lord, government, love, bishop, bishops, law, gods, covenant, ●, men, yea, holy, schism, catholick, christs, power, gospel, faith, ministers, world, authority, kingdom, pope, england, council, peace, tcp, father, mr., doctrine, ye, thou, rome, paul, concord, word, jesus

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?"

it, they, them, their, he, his, i, we, you, our, us, him, your, themselves, my, me, himself, its, her, thy, she, thee, one, theirs, ours, yours, ye, mine, itself, ourselves, whosoever, u, s, ay, yee, whereof, vvhat, ten, si, pe, o, l, i''shall, hugg''d, herself, hel, elias, ch, augustine, ''s

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?"

such, other, many, true, same, own, great, more, good, necessary, particular, much, first, common, whole, greater, little, least, few, better, contrary, most, false, christian, distinct, lawful, several, holy, present, due, able, new, old, second, very, spiritual, greatest, certain, humane, outward, ignorant, private, guilty, like, best, publick, godly, visible, sound, single

not, so, then, more, therefore, now, only, as, yet, up, never, much, out, also, thus, very, even, most, here, far, well, together, ever, first, too, all, indeed, in, rather, still, there, no, otherwise, off, that, onely, down, is, further, especially, before, long, forth, again, away, else, just, truly, better, once

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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