Distant Reader - subject-cornwallEnglandCounty-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 11 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 130,816 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 11,892 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 86. 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:

one, de, king, haue, vpon, cornwall, sir, also, prince, will, first, vnto, time, may, great, yet, part, feod, two, hee, ten, like, made, county, many, wales, good, now, called, three, text, whose, cornish, fee, name, iohn, edward, england, sea, towne, hundred, ibid, thereof, shall, place, castle, english, vp, much, yeere

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are The survey of Cornvvall. Written by Richard Carew of Antonie, Esquire, The history of the ancient and moderne estate of the principality of Wales, dutchy of Cornewall, and earldome of Chester Collected out of the records of the Tower of London, and diuers ancient authours. By Sir Iohn Dodridge Knight, one of his Maiesties iudges in the Kings Bench. And by himselfe dedicated to King Iames of euer blessed memory., and Master Peters messuage from Sir Thomas Fairfax, delivered in both Houses of the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled: with the whole state of the west, and all the particulars about the disbanding of the Princes and Sir Ralph Hoptons army. Also the totall routing of Sir Jacob Ashley himselfe, and 1500. taken prisoners, their carriages and ammunition also taken by Colonell Morgan and Sir William Brereton. Commanded to be printed at the desire of divers members of Parliament, and published according to order..

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

king edward, king henry, early english, english books, books online, sir iohn, early works, yeerly rent, summe totall, heire apparant, yeerly fee, idem ten, sir william, haue beene, iohannes de, yeerely fee, page images, betweene three, hundred de, hee beareth, idem will, text creation, creation partnership, textual changes, cheuron betweene, great sessions, summa totalis, last yeere, letters patents, blacke prince, iohn arundel, fee farme, mona logarbo, iohn arundell, sir thomas, sir nicholas, sir richard, haue bene, bit group, images scanned, online text, encoded text, without asking, asking permission, eldest sonne, tcp assigned, whose yeerely, xml conversion, tiff page, encoded edition

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are The case of William Coryton, Esq; for the burrough of Michell in the county of Cornwall. To be heard on Monday the 25th of November, 1689. A declaration of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament for the protection of Sir George Chudleigh, Sir John Northcott, Sir Samuel Rolle, and Sir Nicholas Martyn, in the countie of Devon, who have lately beene proclaimed traytors by his Majestie., and Master Peters messuage from Sir Thomas Fairfax, delivered in both Houses of the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled: with the whole state of the west, and all the particulars about the disbanding of the Princes and Sir Ralph Hoptons army. Also the totall routing of Sir Jacob Ashley himselfe, and 1500. taken prisoners, their carriages and ammunition also taken by Colonell Morgan and Sir William Brereton. Commanded to be printed at the desire of divers members of Parliament, and published according to order..

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:

sir, king, gent, tynne, tcp, prince, iustices, henry, england, early, castle, william, willi, west, wales, tynners, south, sea, richard, realme, plymmouth, parliament, north, master, march, mannor, majesties, lord, load, liskerd, iohn, inhabitants, iland, haue, gentlemen, generall, esq, english, enemies, edward, easterne, east, earle, dutchie, deuon, crowne, county, countrie, countrey, counties

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 said, and The survey of Cornvvall. Written by Richard Carew of Antonie, Esquire 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?":

time, part, name, fee, place, text, water, sonne, house, daughter, yeere, others, towne, sea, euery, side, men, life, father, certaine, themselues, rent, hee, kings, diuers, yeeres, land, fish, places, way, people, day, vpon, times, profits, parts, end, heire, man, hands, foure, persons, lands, houses, hath, betweene, againe, works, seuerall, head

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, was, said, be, are, were, had, being, made, called, make, did, take, haue, taken, vnto, have, bee, found, do, brought, touching, say, hath, come, according, vpon, set, been, see, tooke, kept, hold, came, sent, belonging, hauing, married, let, cast, encoded, bound, allowed, left, put, created, maried, serue, vntill, find

Proper Nouns

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

s., l., de, king, d., cornwall, sir, prince, wales, county, haue, iohn, hath, edward, feod, england, castle, ibid, tynne, parliament, henry, mannor, lord, h., doe, m., earle, english, richard, thomas, deuon, chester, master, hee, q., vp, duke, cornewall, west, tcp, dutchie, b., counties, ob, idem, william, beene, iustice, gent, sea

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, their, it, they, i, them, he, him, our, my, you, her, your, we, me, us, vp, themselves, she, mine, himself, thy, one, theirs, thee, ours, ten, vnto, itself, yours, whereof, tro, its, honours, berthey

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, same, such, great, many, good, first, little, cornish, last, more, former, much, ancient, like, most, whole, long, yeerly, better, next, large, third, best, least, common, early, new, haue, english, greater, late, second, present, particular, due, high, few, ouer, strong, small, full, fresh, sundry, ordinary, old, yeerely, open, able, strange

not, so, then, also, now, there, out, thereof, yet, more, onely, well, first, as, yeerely, together, sometimes, thus, most, very, therefore, rather, here, away, much, once, therein, often, neere, somewhat, vpon, before, afterwards, long, likewise, in, forth, partly, early, commonly, too, lastly, thereby, only, lately, yeerly, about, no, better, online

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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