Distant Reader - subject-drinkingOfAlcoholicBeverages-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 85,221 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 14,203 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 97. 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:

will, god, one, may, sin, shall, man, good, like, yet, make, drink, now, th, time, great, much, wine, men, many, made, drunkard, let, though, text, us, first, therefore, see, drunkards, never, others, take, know, devil, reason, children, two, body, world, another, come, think, things, tcp, well, must, say, heart, nothing

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are One come from the dead, to awaken drunkards and whoremongers being a sober and severe testimony against the sins and the sinners, in an exact description of the nature and danger of these two soul-destroying evils : together with proper and sovereign remedies / by Richard Garbut ... ; with epistles to the reader, by Mr. R. Baxter, and Mr. William Jenkins., The blemish of government, the shame of religion, the disgrace of mankind, or, A charge drawn up against drunkards and presented to His Highness the Lord Protector, in the name of all the Sober Party in the three nations, humbly craving that they may be kept alone by themselves from infecting others ... / by R. Younge of Roxwell in Essex., and A solemne ioviall disputation, theoreticke and practicke; briefely shadowing the lavv of drinking together, with the solemnities and controversies occurring: fully and freely discussed according to the civill lavv. Which, by the permission, priviledge and authority, of that most noble and famous order in the Vniversity of Goddesse Potina; Dionisius Bacchus being then president, chiefe gossipper, and most excellent governour, Blasius Multibibus, aliàs Drinkmuch ... hath publikely expounded to his most approved and improved fellow-pot-shots; touching the houres before noone and after, usuall and lawfull. ... Faithfully rendred according to the originall Latine copie..

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

english books, early english, books online, great sin, let us, page images, text creation, creation partnership, will make, god will, will never, sensual lusts, mine owne, may bee, thine owne, good reason, take heed, strong drink, avoid drunkenness, represented either, every one, image sets, may know, characters represented, will judge, may avoid, tcp schema, one day, godly heart, early works, wicked one, strange woman, holy ghost, smoaking age, batch review, good fellowship, shall never, tcp assigned, online text, image set, work described, take away, devils child, providing financial, commercial purposes, another special, know ye, iv tiff, proquest page, images scanned

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are Sot''s paradise, or, The humours of a Derby-ale-house with a satyr upon the ale. One come from the dead, to awaken drunkards and whoremongers being a sober and severe testimony against the sins and the sinners, in an exact description of the nature and danger of these two soul-destroying evils : together with proper and sovereign remedies / by Richard Garbut ... ; with epistles to the reader, by Mr. R. Baxter, and Mr. William Jenkins., and Fatal friendship, or, The Drunkards misery being a satyr against hard drinking / by the author of The search after Claret..

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:

tcp, man, lord, god, ale, world, woman, wine, tobacco, time, thy, thou, thee, tei, spirit, son, religion, reason, prov, pluto, pipe, men, like, judgment, holy, glass, father, english, early, drunkards, drunkard, drinking, devil, derby, cup, cor, citie, children, captaine, body, bee, bastard, bacchus, apostle, adultery

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 A Preparative to studie, or, The vertue of sack 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?":

sin, t, man, men, time, others, wine, things, reason, nothing, text, r, drink, child, s, heart, body, way, thing, sins, m, h, life, 〈, none, l, one, children, p, n, day, d, selfe, ●, ▪, death, place, name, hath, fire, self, p., world, pleasure, nature, art, woman, wickedness, thy, o

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, were, had, make, do, being, made, let, see, take, did, know, 〈, come, think, drink, say, been, go, does, makes, am, said, give, done, set, put, ''s, consider, look, find, brought, given, leave, found, hath, has, draw, called, taken, came, bee, having, fall, use, encoded

Proper Nouns

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

◊, 〉, 〈, ●, god, thou, drunkard, t, c., s, drunkards, devil, tcp, gods, tobacco, m, e, hath, christ, y, wine, man, lord, prov, ale, ye, time, cup, text, r., cor, world, l., adultery, w, spirit, heaven, son, judgment, english, father, d, lust, drunkenness, yea, house, st, children, vice, pluto

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, i, their, them, my, him, you, her, thy, we, your, our, me, thee, us, she, themselves, himself, its, one, mine, ''em, yours, ye, ts, mself, hee, em, ay, 〈, wag''d, vvhat, tho''you, theirs, pelf, ours, insull, hugg''d, herself, gs, gray''s, ch

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, good, great, other, more, many, own, very, little, much, true, same, first, best, drunk, better, second, like, early, special, full, old, most, whole, sensual, poor, english, few, common, worse, wicked, strong, strange, sober, next, right, least, last, former, young, long, greater, due, brave, proper, new, dead, worst, wise, single

not, so, then, now, more, up, out, thus, therefore, very, too, never, yet, as, much, ever, also, even, most, only, first, rather, down, well, onely, there, long, here, again, away, almost, just, over, in, sc, indeed, far, sometimes, perhaps, no, still, secondly, once, forth, on, commonly, especially, enough, together, off

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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