Distant Reader - subject-conductOfLife-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 99 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 3,955,773 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 39,957 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 93. 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:

god, will, may, man, one, good, men, shall, us, yet, things, much, great, life, must, many, make, time, like, world, love, without, hee, now, first, well, let, therefore, others, thing, though, bee, made, nature, never, self, nothing, take, every, see, also, wee, say, lord, way, heart, haue, christ, death, reason

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are Man ashiv le-Yahoweh, or, A serious enquiry for a suitable return for continued life, in and after a time of great mortality, by a wasting plague (anno 1665) answered in XIII directions / by Tho. Doolitel., The practice of Christian graces, or, The whole duty of man laid down in a plaine and familiar way for the use of all, but especially the meanest reader : divided into XVII chapters, one whereof being read every Lords Day, the whole may be read over thrice in the year : with Private devotions for several occasions..., and Oberuations diuine and morall For the furthering of knowledg, and vertue. By Iohn Robbinson..

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

let us, many times, every one, early english, english books, every man, books online, wise man, may bee, roman non, one another, will never, will make, man may, take heed, jesus christ, god will, holy ghost, must needs, page images, creation partnership, text creation, every thing, good men, good man, wee may, one day, shall find, every day, many things, good things, may say, nothing else, one man, shall finde, make us, one thing, wise men, good conscience, wee shall, shall bee, wee must, represented either, characters represented, image sets, tcp schema, shall never, let vs, whole world, make use

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are By the directions of the Scriptures, and the examples of our blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Written for the good of all sorts of people, both rich and poore, in this miserable time of necessity. To the tune of Ayme not too high. A key to open heaven-gate. Or, a ready path to lead to heaven Written and printed for the benefit of all true Christians, to read hear and make good use of, before it be too late. And therefore I advise every man, and every woman to observe and give good heed to what is spoken in this little book, and they shall be sure to finde sweetnesse, and happinesse in this world, and eternall joys in the world to come, through the might, merits, and mercies of Jesus Christ; who saith, Aske and you shall have, seeke, and yee shall finde, knock and it shall be opened unto you. Written by Laurence Price., and Golden remains of Sir George Freman, Knight of the Honourable Order of the Bath being choice discourses on select subjects..

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, tcp, man, lord, world, good, christian, thing, life, spirit, religion, nature, king, gods, church, christ, soul, law, prince, great, father, hee, cor, bee, thy, men, haue, hath, apostle, time, thou, love, reason, honour, chap, self, conscience, common, body, wee, vertue, scripture, soule, poet, mind, gospel, death, people, glory, gentleman

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 god, and Christian letters full of spiritual instructions tending to the promoting of the power of godliness, both in person and families. 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?":

man, men, things, life, time, thing, others, nothing, self, way, world, heart, death, t, reason, day, love, nature, body, part, mind, hee, sin, end, selves, place, people, power, selfe, glory, one, hath, children, none, times, words, honour, name, pleasure, hand, truth, doth, knowledge, eyes, care, soul, matter, light, cause, good

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, being, make, let, made, said, take, did, see, say, come, know, give, been, bee, done, set, has, makes, am, think, put, live, find, hath, according, bring, consider, having, go, found, taken, become, haue, love, brought, given, called, keep, ''s, does, use, thought

Proper Nouns

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

god, thou, 〉, ◊, 〈, q, lord, hath, christ, wee, heaven, ●, gods, man, world, bee, hee, chap, c., doe, haue, spirit, king, owne, nature, father, tcp, men, prince, love, yea, law, church, mans, life, holy, hast, soul, christian, de, vertue, christians, earth, cor, fortune, grace, master, himselfe, honour, est

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, his, he, they, their, i, we, them, our, you, him, your, my, her, us, thy, me, she, himself, themselves, thee, its, one, ''em, theirs, mine, vp, ours, yours, ye, ''s, em, itself, vnto, whereof, thou, s, hers, l, hee, yee, thēselues, herself, ay, ourselves, †, wil, vvhat, ●, ha

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?"

other, good, such, great, many, more, own, much, same, true, first, little, better, best, common, wise, most, whole, greater, last, least, greatest, old, holy, like, very, wicked, young, second, new, necessary, sure, long, able, present, full, former, high, rich, happy, free, few, particular, worthy, ill, noble, excellent, worse, short, small

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

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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