Distant Reader - subject-etiquette-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 5 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 149,288 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 29,857 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 91. 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:

ti, ly, one, may, men, doe, much, great, will, good, hee, make, man, must, bee, well, prince, like, time, re, never, yet, de, therefore, made, princes, things, us, many, ble, let, another, others, ty, words, use, li, lord, every, without, flattery, thing, little, say, shall, also, take, first, people, says

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are The English school-master compleated containing several tables of common English words, from one, to six, seven, and eight syllables, both whole and divided, according to the rules of true spelling; with prayers, and graces both before and after meat, and rules for childrens behaviour at all times and places, with several other necessaries suitable to the capacities of children and youth. Also brief and easie rules for the true and exact spelling, reading, and writing of English according to the present pronunciation thereof in the famous University of Oxford, and City of London. To which is added, an appendix containing the principles of arithmetick, with an account of coins, weights, measure, time, &c. Copies of letters, titles of honour, suitable for men of all degrees, and qualities, bills of parcels, bills of exchange, bills of debt, receipts, and several other rules and observations fit for a youths accomplishment in the way of trade. John Hawkins school-master at St. Georges Church in Southwark., The compleat courtier: or, The morals of the famous historian Cornelius Tacitus concerning flattery, &c. In above one hundred essays. Paraphras''d and illustrated with useful observations by the Sieur Amelo de la Houssaie and M. D''Ablancourt. Done out of French., and Galateo espagnol, or, The Spanish gallant instructing thee in that which thou must doe, and take heed of in thyusuall cariage, to be well esteemed, and loved of the people. Written in Spanish by Lucas Gracian de Antisco servant to his Majesty. And done into English by W.S. of the Inner Temple Esquire. Full of variety, and delight, and very necessary to be perused, not only of the generous youth of this kingdom, but also of all such as are exercised in their gentile education..

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

every one, great men, like manner, english books, early english, may bee, let us, books online, make use, wee may, many times, take heede, great personages, creation partnership, holy name, page images, text creation, younger pliny, jesus christ, must take, good fortune, much lesse, wee must, must bee, represented either, must know, characters represented, may see, tcp schema, faire axa, one day, every day, sounded like, may understand, image sets, young man, early works, well esteemed, iesus christ, every body, lord god, next day, many things, hee may, one another, good will, following table, hee must, good manners, take notice

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are The arts of grandeur and submission, or, A discourse concerning the behaviour of great men towards their inferiours, and of inferiour personages towards men of greater quality written in Latin by Joannes Casa ... ; and rendered into English by Henry Stubbe ... The compleat courtier: or, The morals of the famous historian Cornelius Tacitus concerning flattery, &c. In above one hundred essays. Paraphras''d and illustrated with useful observations by the Sieur Amelo de la Houssaie and M. D''Ablancourt. Done out of French., and The English school-master compleated containing several tables of common English words, from one, to six, seven, and eight syllables, both whole and divided, according to the rules of true spelling; with prayers, and graces both before and after meat, and rules for childrens behaviour at all times and places, with several other necessaries suitable to the capacities of children and youth. Also brief and easie rules for the true and exact spelling, reading, and writing of English according to the present pronunciation thereof in the famous University of Oxford, and City of London. To which is added, an appendix containing the principles of arithmetick, with an account of coins, weights, measure, time, &c. Copies of letters, titles of honour, suitable for men of all degrees, and qualities, bills of parcels, bills of exchange, bills of debt, receipts, and several other rules and observations fit for a youths accomplishment in the way of trade. John Hawkins school-master at St. Georges Church in Southwark..

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, thing, prince, person, god, english, vowel, tiberius, thy, thou, tacitus, table, syllable, sum, son, soldan, senate, reputation, reign, queene, prov, power, people, patron, ous, otho, money, men, master, line, life, lady, king, honour, holy, hee, great, good, gods, fortune, flattery, flatterers, father, examples, essay, empire, emperour, doe

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 ti, and Galateo espagnol, or, The Spanish gallant instructing thee in that which thou must doe, and take heed of in thyusuall cariage, to be well esteemed, and loved of the people. Written in Spanish by Lucas Gracian de Antisco servant to his Majesty. And done into English by W.S. of the Inner Temple Esquire. Full of variety, and delight, and very necessary to be perused, not only of the generous youth of this kingdom, but also of all such as are exercised in their gentile education. 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?":

ti, men, man, time, things, others, hee, thing, words, manner, reason, people, nothing, day, way, re, ness, -, part, place, one, o, use, persons, ter, person, end, word, body, selfe, discourse, rest, nature, shee, life, t, company, cal, times, self, name, honour, com, purpose, hands, thy, sayd, quality, certaine, side

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, had, were, being, make, made, let, bee, say, take, says, did, give, been, know, put, do, done, see, having, speake, set, according, use, come, said, doe, called, makes, saying, given, understand, tell, taken, written, found, has, find, observe, thought, am, go, gave, stand, sounded, used

Proper Nouns

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

thou, prince, doe, lord, princes, god, li, flattery, un, d''ablancourt, senate, e, wee, ti, ted, tiberius, bee, ma, hee, de, nero, essay, c., 〉, king, ty, ra, honour, tcp, men, mi, al, son, ni, fortune, english, tacitus, father, ●, ry, ci, vitellius, emperour, 〈, ◊, world, ri, le, hath, gods

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, they, their, he, him, them, i, we, our, you, thy, my, her, themselves, me, us, your, himself, ''em, thee, she, its, one, em, yours, ye, s, vp, u, ty, theirs, nour, yt, yourself, wittyly, throng, thou, p, offendours, myself, mine, joy''d, hers, givē, e, bl, 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, great, good, many, much, more, little, same, ble, own, true, ous, ill, de, ful, first, most, pro, ti, re, better, full, con, old, greater, several, like, least, whole, ri, new, ty, ra, la, common, few, long, ex, ve, pleasing, high, wise, rich, last, short, bad, particular, best

not, so, then, on, more, well, never, therefore, very, much, out, as, only, also, most, thus, now, too, always, up, yet, rather, even, ever, there, together, especially, first, onely, soon, sometimes, no, thereby, often, in, long, already, down, else, away, thereof, off, far, still, here, less, better, otherwise, ill, all

Next steps

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