Distant Reader - subject-fastDaySermons-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 104 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 1,539,081 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 14,798 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 94. 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:

god, will, us, shall, non, roman, may, lord, christ, men, one, great, yet, people, things, now, church, many, man, good, gods, first, must, let, much, text, day, make, time, doe, bee, way, come, heart, made, like, therefore, every, truth, say, though, spirit, world, hee, see, covenant, take, religion, peace, house

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are The glasse of Gods providence towards his faithfvll ones held forth in a sermon preached to the two Houses of Parliament at Margarets Westminster, Aug. 13, 1644, being an extraordinary day of humiliation : wherein is discovered the great failings that the best are liable unto, upon which God is provoked sometimes to take vengeance : the whole is applyed specially to a more carefull observation of our late covenant, and particularly against the ungodly toleration pleaded for under pretence of liberty of conscience / by Herbert Palmer ..., Gods free mercy to England presented as a pretious and powerfull motive to humiliation : in a sermon preached before the honourable House of Commons at their late solemne fast, Feb. 23, 1641 / by Edmvnd Calamy ..., and A sermon preached to the Honourable House of Commons at their late solemne fast, Wednesday, Jan. 31, 1644 by Samuel Rutherfurd..

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

roman non, let us, jesus christ, god will, early english, english books, sermon preached, books online, every one, page images, honourable house, among us, lord jesus, one another, will make, text creation, creation partnership, may bee, every man, textual changes, gods people, defects per, holy ghost, good way, amongst us, shall come, take away, will never, shall bee, must needs, take heed, make us, th century, god doth, shall see, two things, without asking, image set, encoded edition, commercial purposes, providing financial, xml conversion, markup reviewed, work described, bit group, asking permission, institutions providing, financial support, iv tiff, batch review

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are The declaration of almighty God, in some few texts of scripture, recommended to the reverend conforming divines: / by G.B. B. of S----b---y ... being the publick fast appointed to implore God''s assistance for the reduction of Ireland, and the overthrow of the late King James, and his rebellious forces. The teachings of Christ in the soule. Opened in a sermon before the Right Honble House of Peers, in Covent-garden-Church, upon the solemne day of their monthly fast, March 29. 1648. / By Peter Sterry, M.A. sometimes fellow of Emanuel Colledge in Cambridge: and now preacher of the Gospel in London. Published by order of that House., and A sermon preached before the Right Honorable House of Lords, in the Abbey Church at Westminster, Wednesday the 25. day of Iune, 1645. Being the day appointed for a solemne and publique humiliation. / By Samuel Rutherfurd Professor of Divinitie at St. Andrews..

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:

god, lord, church, roman, christ, tcp, gods, religion, nation, non, text, king, gospel, reformation, spirit, kingdome, people, house, world, psal, city, prophet, land, england, covenant, peace, parliament, law, israel, churches, word, truth, thing, temple, man, father, sin, saints, providence, kingdom, jews, heart, zion, scripture, saviour, nations, mercy, light, justice, john

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 broken spirit, God''s sacrifices. Or, The gratefulnesse of a broken spirit unto God. Represented in a sermon, before the right Honourable House of Peeres, in K. Henry the Seventh''s chappell in the Abbey Westminster, upon Wednesday Decemb. 9. 1646. Being a day of publike humiliation for removing of the great judgment of rain and waters then upon the kingdome, &c. / By Fran. Roberts M. A. Minister of Christ, at Austins, London. 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?":

men, things, people, man, day, time, way, heart, text, truth, thing, others, selves, world, peace, power, hearts, times, hand, hath, nothing, reason, words, religion, word, sin, enemies, sins, glory, life, work, faith, cause, part, place, hee, end, mercy, light, love, name, hands, spirit, house, earth, wrath, self, nation, gods, doth

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, let, do, make, did, been, come, made, say, being, see, take, give, know, done, said, set, bee, hath, put, according, called, doe, am, bring, consider, given, brought, taken, think, has, preached, came, cast, pray, go, stand, read, makes, lay, found, call, find, live

Proper Nouns

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

god, lord, christ, church, hath, gods, thou, heaven, 〉, covenant, ◊, 〈, doe, c., text, spirit, king, wee, kingdome, ●, israel, england, jesus, gospel, house, bee, tcp, parliament, prophet, temple, david, hee, ye, owne, commons, city, psal, yea, law, paul, land, religion, reformation, word, father, john, cor, churches, lords, world

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, he, their, them, you, our, i, we, us, him, your, my, me, themselves, thy, her, thee, himself, its, she, theirs, ours, one, mine, ye, yours, ourselves, elias, yee, ''s, u, s, itself, hers, whereof, gods, em, ●, thou, non, ''em, yourselves, severall, o, l, hee, ôh, ô

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?"

non, -, roman, great, many, such, other, good, own, more, much, first, true, same, little, whole, last, saith, new, second, wicked, full, greatest, old, better, very, most, holy, high, honourable, least, greater, early, former, present, wise, best, particular, able, few, glorious, common, right, strong, english, like, sad, ready, necessary, free

not, so, then, now, up, more, out, therefore, yet, most, as, even, never, ever, thus, here, first, also, very, much, only, onely, well, away, too, forth, in, together, still, down, indeed, off, secondly, there, rather, long, all, once, on, sometimes, again, no, that, especially, is, ver, often, over, thirdly, thereof

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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