subject-england-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 54 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 1,238,524 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 22,935 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 90. 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:

haue, king, one, great, vpon, will, first, time, now, many, sir, lord, may, de, yet, england, made, doth, men, good, man, hee, much, et, iohn, shall, god, like, church, english, name, bee, day, well, two, doe, whose, henry, make, vnto, also, kings, place, see, saint, earle, might, long, vs, thomas

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are Ancient funerall monuments within the vnited monarchie of Great Britaine, Ireland, and the islands adiacent with the dissolued monasteries therein contained: their founders, and what eminent persons haue beene in the same interred. As also the death and buriall of certaine of the bloud royall; the nobilitie and gentrie of these kingdomes entombed in forraine nations. A worke reuiuing the dead memory of the royall progenie, the nobilitie, gentrie, and communaltie, of these his Maiesties dominions. Intermixed and illustrated with variety of historicall obseruations, annotations, and briefe notes, extracted out of approued authors ... Whereunto is prefixed a discourse of funerall monuments ... Composed by the studie and trauels of Iohn Weeuer., Poly-Olbion by Michaell· Drayton Esqr, and A discouerie of the true causes why Ireland was neuer entirely subdued, nor brought vnder obedience of the crowne of England, vntill the beginning of his Maiesties happie raigne.

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

king henry, hic iacet, created baronet, sir iohn, english books, early english, king edward, haue beene, sir thomas, sir william, books online, orate pro, creation partnership, text creation, great seale, page images, sir robert, early works, pro anima, queene elizabeth, qui obijt, let vs, set downe, qui quidem, sir richard, long time, might haue, one hundred, sir henry, characters represented, cuius anime, tcp schema, represented either, image sets, king richard, many times, lord maior, haue bin, vxor eius, may bee, lieth buried, vt supra, sir edward, anno domini, ye shall, sir francis, euery man, anno praed, qui obiit, long since

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are Act for a new imposition upon English commodities. At Edinburgh, the twenty one of August, one thousand six hundred and sixty three. A copy of a letter from the French king to King James in answer to one from him. Translated from the French copy., and Articles of peace offered by the crown of France.

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, english, england, lord, king, haue, man, good, god, parliament, earle, church, sea, prince, london, kingdome, sir, master, law, land, ireland, iohn, henry, edward, early, crowne, countrey, city, bee, west, vpon, towne, south, scotland, queene, pope, north, isle, hath, france, east, country, citie, christian, william, time, thy, thou, scots, religion

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 haue, and The second part, or a continuance of Poly-Olbion from the eighteenth song Containing all the tracts, riuers, mountaines, and forrests: intermixed with the most remarkable stories, antiquities, wonders, rarities, pleasures, and commodities of the east, and northerne parts of this isle, lying betwixt the two famous riuers of Thames, and Tweed. By Michael Drayton, Esq. 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:

1. haue - Poly-Olbion by Michaell· Drayton Esqr
2. king - Ancient funerall monuments within the vnited monarchie of Great Britaine, Ireland, and the islands adiacent with the dissolued monasteries therein contained: their founders, and what eminent persons haue beene in the same interred. As also the death and buriall of certaine of the bloud royall; the nobilitie and gentrie of these kingdomes entombed in forraine nations. A worke reuiuing the dead memory of the royall progenie, the nobilitie, gentrie, and communaltie, of these his Maiesties dominions. Intermixed and illustrated with variety of historicall obseruations, annotations, and briefe notes, extracted out of approued authors ... Whereunto is prefixed a discourse of funerall monuments ... Composed by the studie and trauels of Iohn Weeuer.
3. king - The opening of the great seale of England. Containing certain brief historicall and legall observations, touching the originall, antiquity, progresse, vse, necessity of the great seal of the kings and kingdoms, of England, in respect of charters, patents, writs, commissions, and other processe. Together with the kings, kingdoms, Parliaments severall interests in, and power over the same, and over the Lord Chancellour, and the lords and keepers of it, both in regard of its new-making, custody, admi nistration [sic] for the better execution of publike justice, the republique necessary safety, and vtility. Occasioned by the over-rash censures of such who inveigh against the Parliament, for ordering a new great seale to be engraven, to supply the wilfull absence, defects, abuses of the old, unduely withdrawne and detained from them. / By William Prynne, Utter-Barrester of Lincolns Inne. ...

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:

1. king, et, sir - Ancient funerall monuments within the vnited monarchie of Great Britaine, Ireland, and the islands adiacent with the dissolued monasteries therein contained: their founders, and what eminent persons haue beene in the same interred. As also the death and buriall of certaine of the bloud royall; the nobilitie and gentrie of these kingdomes entombed in forraine nations. A worke reuiuing the dead memory of the royall progenie, the nobilitie, gentrie, and communaltie, of these his Maiesties dominions. Intermixed and illustrated with variety of historicall obseruations, annotations, and briefe notes, extracted out of approued authors ... Whereunto is prefixed a discourse of funerall monuments ... Composed by the studie and trauels of Iohn Weeuer.
2. haue, doth, great - Poly-Olbion by Michaell· Drayton Esqr
3. haue, god, england - A thankfull remembrance of Gods mercy In an historicall collection of the great and mercifull deliverances of the Church and state of England, since the Gospell began here to flourish, from the beginning of Queene Elizabeth. Collected by Geo: Carleton, Doctor of Divinitie, and Bishop of Chichester.
4. king, lord, sir - The opening of the great seale of England. Containing certain brief historicall and legall observations, touching the originall, antiquity, progresse, vse, necessity of the great seal of the kings and kingdoms, of England, in respect of charters, patents, writs, commissions, and other processe. Together with the kings, kingdoms, Parliaments severall interests in, and power over the same, and over the Lord Chancellour, and the lords and keepers of it, both in regard of its new-making, custody, admi nistration [sic] for the better execution of publike justice, the republique necessary safety, and vtility. Occasioned by the over-rash censures of such who inveigh against the Parliament, for ordering a new great seale to be engraven, to supply the wilfull absence, defects, abuses of the old, unduely withdrawne and detained from them. / By William Prynne, Utter-Barrester of Lincolns Inne. ...
5. veni, th, law - Barnabees journall under the names of Mirtilus & Faustulus shadowed: for the travellers solace lately published, to most apt numbers reduced, and to the old tune of Barnabe commonly chanted. By Corymbœus.

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, men, man, name, day, place, wife, doth, kings, hee, part, people, sonne, yeare, house, times, selfe, others, way, world, themselues, life, death, king, things, yeares, text, power, body, shee, vpon, side, euery, againe, hath, owne, nothing, daughter, rest, end, ad, words, reason, faire, course, ▪, manner, head, number, thing

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, be, were, are, had, did, made, being, haue, make, said, called, see, have, do, say, take, came, bee, let, set, come, sent, found, brought, been, died, vpon, vnto, buried, put, know, created, neuer, taken, hath, went, thinke, done, hauing, built, doe, according, borne, left, die, finde, am, thought

Proper Nouns

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

king, 〉, ◊, 〈, lord, sir, england, haue, iohn, god, de, church, ●, henry, english, earle, saint, et, hath, thomas, william, london, edward, doe, bishop, s., c., ireland, hee, thou, richard, tcp, queene, bee, robert, beene, prince, l., m., duke, knight, qui, owne, vp, wee, pope, parliament, sea, france, rome

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, it, i, their, he, they, her, them, him, our, my, you, we, me, your, she, thy, us, thee, vp, its, themselves, ours, one, himself, theirs, mine, vnto, hers, yours, ye, vvith, ''em, yt, em, ay, ian, hic, hee, yow, y, ys, thēselues, l, herself, ''s, ob, ne, hymself, ●

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, great, many, such, good, first, same, more, much, little, old, most, ancient, true, second, haue, last, full, common, high, new, saith, long, doth, english, third, famous, noble, whole, best, religious, holy, rich, like, better, large, next, worthy, wise, pro, able, former, fourth, dead, early, greater, strong, late, free, goodly

not, so, then, now, here, there, more, thus, most, also, well, as, first, out, onely, yet, much, very, therefore, still, long, too, in, away, before, together, rather, vpon, likewise, thereof, neere, sometimes, forth, all, only, once, vs, no, almost, often, else, never, off, afterwards, especially, up, sometime, indeed, on, otherwise

Next steps

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