Distant Reader - subject-detentionOfPerson-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 15 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 47,897 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 3,193 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 85. 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:

law, text, may, parliament, king, house, sir, shall, lords, power, england, early, will, commons, without, now, john, kings, people, man, lawes, yet, english, ienkins, men, must, thomason, therefore, one, case, present, london, mr, persons, iohn, tower, lilburne, god, works, court, books, many, according, right, great, prisoner, online, tcp, justice, liberties

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are The lawes subversion: or, Sir John Maynards case truly stated Being a perfect relation of the manner of his imprisonment upon pleasure, for the space of five moneths by the House of Commons, and of the impeachment of high treason exhibited against him before the Lords, together with all the passages between him and the Lords, in messages to them, and speeches at their barre, as they were taken from his own mouth. VVherein also is contained a cleare discovery of the dangerous and destructive infringement of our native liberties, and of the arbitrary government now introduced by an aspiring faction over-awing the Parliament. Also that groundlesse false report concerning Sir Iohn Maynards submitting to the Lords jurisdiction refuted, to the shame of the reporters. By J. Howldin, Gent., The cordiall of Mr. David Ienkins: or His reply to H.P. barrester of Lincolnes-Inne, answered., and To the right honorable the Lords assembled in Parliament the humble petition of Sir John Gayer knight and alderman of London; sheweth, ....

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

early works, english books, early english, books online, sir iohn, textual changes, sir john, john lilburne, page images, master ienkins, iohn maynard, defects per, great britain, notre dame, professional end, based collaborative, providing financial, commercial purposes, creative commons, two houses, fully proofread, computationally tractable, preserves archaic, annotation includes, stationer meant, tcp digital, earlyprint project, collaborative curation, encoded edition, encoded text, creation partnership, enriched version, short title, images scanned, archaic forms, image set, english short, humble petition, end users, institutions providing, standardized format, text creation, markup reviewed, many walks, standard spellings, online text, includes standard, tiff page, tcp assigned, without asking

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are The lawes subversion: or, Sir John Maynards case truly stated Being a perfect relation of the manner of his imprisonment upon pleasure, for the space of five moneths by the House of Commons, and of the impeachment of high treason exhibited against him before the Lords, together with all the passages between him and the Lords, in messages to them, and speeches at their barre, as they were taken from his own mouth. VVherein also is contained a cleare discovery of the dangerous and destructive infringement of our native liberties, and of the arbitrary government now introduced by an aspiring faction over-awing the Parliament. Also that groundlesse false report concerning Sir Iohn Maynards submitting to the Lords jurisdiction refuted, to the shame of the reporters. By J. Howldin, Gent. Mr. Prynnes demand of his liberty to the Generall, Decemb. 26. 1648 with his answer thereto; and his declaration and protestation thereupon., and To the honorable the Commons in Parliament assembled the humble petition and remonstrance of Edmond Rolph, prisoner in the Gatehouse, Westminster.

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:

house, john, parliament, law, tower, lilburne, king, sir, rolph, petitioner, maynard, majesty, lords, lord, london, lawes, iohn, ienkins, humphrey, generall, england, commons, collonell

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 law, and A salva libertate sent to Colonell Francis West of the Tower of London, on Fryday the fourteenth of September 1649. by Lieutenant Collonell John Lilburne, vnjustly, and illegally imprisoned, in the said Tower, ever since the 28. of March, 1649. Occasioned by the receipt of a verball command (which in law is nothing, nor signefies nothing) whereby the said leiut. was seemingly authorized, to carry the said John Lilburne before Mr. Prideaux the nicknamed, and falsly so called Atturney General on Fryday 14. Sept. 1649. 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?":

text, power, ▪, 〈, people, man, t, men, kings, works, persons, case, d, reason, law, time, ●, end, life, s, pleasure, o, nothing, e, c, books, things, selfe, images, page, cause, prisoner, part, l, xml, imprisonment, changes, words, b, image, r, person, p, a, proceedings, p., n, justice, defects, transcription

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:

be, is, are, have, was, were, being, has, had, said, been, according, made, make, am, do, sent, 〈, encoded, aim, give, read, taken, say, answer, know, take, see, come, bee, assigned, s, publish, passed, did, co, providing, declared, assembled, performed, meant, making, let, includes, asking, tokenized, support, set, scanned, reviewed

Proper Nouns

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

●, 〉, 〈, ◊, law, parliament, king, sir, lords, house, england, commons, john, lawes, ienkins, c., thomason, london, tower, iohn, god, mr., lilburne, tcp, e, court, english, maynard, lord, m., liberties, kingdome, text, generall, transcribed, master, act, ▪, t, houses, lieutenant, judges, s, land, kings, hath, c, treason, justice, army

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, i, it, their, he, my, they, you, your, him, them, me, our, we, us, themselves, its, himself, her, thy, ye, she, mine, yours, u, theirs, thee, ng, kn, em, ay

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, such, early, many, present, more, english, humble, same, good, textual, least, whole, great, particular, free, own, first, common, high, contrary, last, true, new, legal, honourable, tractable, suitable, standardized, standard, seekest, professional, late, keyboarded, financial, enriched, easier, digital, commercial, collaborative, available, much, proofread, markup, absolute, ordinary, arbitrary, open, lawfull, innocent

not, then, so, now, therefore, more, early, only, most, as, yet, just, ever, also, online, even, onely, here, whatsoever, thus, never, up, very, there, fully, above, well, together, linguistically, computationally, rather, much, thereof, humbly, first, truly, otherwise, out, still, justly, further, all, long, in, else, better, at, thereupon, therein, no

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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