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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 8 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 209,002 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 26,125 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:

may, will, al, yet, see, heart, god, doth, one, shall, doe, though, much, make, now, like, great, good, time, men, things, bee, first, let, thine, man, therefore, made, world, without, emblem, well, haue, lord, take, must, whose, embleme, book, light, virgin, life, still, grace, many, illvstr, emb, art, owne, nature

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are A collection of emblemes, ancient and moderne quickened vvith metricall illustrations, both morall and divine: and disposed into lotteries, that instruction, and good counsell, may bee furthered by an honest and pleasant recreation. By George VVither. The first booke., Schola cordis, or, The heart of it selfe, gone away from God brought back againe to him & instructed by him in 47 emblems., and Partheneia sacra. Or The mysterious and delicious garden of the sacred Parthenes symbolically set forth and enriched with pious deuises and emblemes for the entertainement of deuout soules; contriued al to the honour of the incomparable Virgin Marie mother of God; for the pleasure and deuotion especially of the Parthenian sodalitie of her Immaculate Conception. By H.A..

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

mine heart, blessed virgin, thine emblem, thine heart, early english, english books, thine owne, may bee, books online, al things, contemplate first, nothing els, page images, ponder lastly, virgin marie, sacred parthenes, incomparable virgin, al vertues, creation partnership, text creation, let us, mine owne, may seeme, bring forth, wee may, may make, shalt see, men may, aboue al, will make, good counsell, al graces, sir john, may well, honi soit, qvi mal, shall see, may appeare, whole world, original sinne, soit qvi, will give, many times, one another, may see, characters represented, tcp schema, take heed, shall make, virginal womb

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are Partheneia sacra. Or The mysterious and delicious garden of the sacred Parthenes symbolically set forth and enriched with pious deuises and emblemes for the entertainement of deuout soules; contriued al to the honour of the incomparable Virgin Marie mother of God; for the pleasure and deuotion especially of the Parthenian sodalitie of her Immaculate Conception. By H.A. A sight of ye trans-actions of these latter yeares emblemized with ingraven plats, which men may read without spectacles., and The ages of sin, or Sinnes birth & groweth With the stepps, and degrees of sin, from thought to finall impenitencie..

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, lord, time, thy, man, god, thou, soule, love, king, heart, good, embleme, world, wit, wealth, virgin, violet, vertues, truth, thine, thee, sword, sun, starre, spring, spirit, sonne, soit, sin, sea, rose, qvi, psal, prince, parliament, palme, oliue, ode, nature, mother, morals, morall, moon, minde, men, marshall, mal, majesty, lot

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 thou, and A collection of emblemes, ancient and moderne quickened vvith metricall illustrations, both morall and divine: and disposed into lotteries, that instruction, and good counsell, may bee furthered by an honest and pleasant recreation. By George VVither. The first booke. 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?":

heart, things, men, time, doth, man, book, world, life, thy, embleme, others, nothing, light, death, day, art, hath, hand, grace, earth, t, way, eyes, mind, selfe, none, thine, place, nature, thee, soule, againe, self, love, part, vertues, waters, rest, owne, thing, feare, end, fire, faire, head, hands, flowers, text, vaine

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, was, have, see, were, had, make, being, let, made, take, did, say, know, do, come, ''s, makes, wil, been, give, am, set, hath, doe, haue, found, grow, find, done, bring, put, bee, brought, become, appeare, thinke, thought, behold, dost, stand, lost, keepe, thou, neuer, according, consider, beare

Proper Nouns

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

thou, al, god, doe, emblem, lord, hath, emb, virgin, illvstr, thy, 〉, sun, mother, bee, thine, sonne, ●, wee, thee, 〈, heauen, ◊, owne, parliament, haue, lot, hast, king, diuine, tcp, sea, christ, soule, yea, vp, nature, ladie, rose, marie, holie, downe, vertue, time, loue, grace, garden, ✚, starre, doth

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, i, they, her, their, his, she, you, thy, my, he, them, our, your, we, me, him, thee, us, its, herself, himself, itself, themselves, mine, vp, theirs, thyself, ours, one, hers, ''s, yours, myself, ha, ye, us''d, thēselues, pelf, wil, vnto, vnseuer''d, urg''d, unhallow''d, thoughhe, thou, testimonie, observ''d, mai''st, iarr''d

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, great, good, more, same, much, many, true, little, best, most, first, last, sweet, better, whole, doth, high, glorious, least, precious, greater, common, rich, new, litle, blessed, full, wise, old, honest, sacred, pure, mine, long, due, able, wee, proper, free, perfect, like, certain, present, worth, sure, worse, pleasant, few

not, so, then, now, more, most, yet, therefore, as, still, too, forth, well, thus, out, much, first, here, away, there, indeed, very, also, only, rather, alone, likewise, up, never, no, truly, perhaps, ever, quite, else, once, in, long, sometimes, onely, often, oft, especially, lastly, together, that, is, fast, before, all

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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