Distant Reader - subject-fisheries-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 8 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 44,785 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 5,598 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 89. 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, great, sea, england, may, men, english, haue, one, text, fishery, seas, now, fish, good, trade, tcp, make, fishing, busses, hollanders, also, ships, herrings, many, time, well, king, shall, nation, first, people, eebo, take, two, without, land, much, made, hundred, money, us, vnto, kingdom, early, fishermen, taken, yet, holland, work

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are A vindication of a national-fishery wherein is asserted that the glory, wealth, strength, safety, and happiness of this kingdom, with the flourishing of trade, and growth of navigation, as also the employing of the poor of this realm, doth depend (under God) upon a national-fishery : and all the general, vulgar, (tho'' erroneous) objections against encouraging the fishery of England, answer''d, and confuted : to which is added the sovreignty of British-seas., Englands vvay to vvin vvealth, and to employ ships and marriners: or, A plaine description of what great profite, it will bring vnto the common-wealth of England, by the erecting, building, and aduenturing of busses, to sea, a fishing With a true relation of the inestimable wealth that is yearely taken out of his Maiesties seas, by the Hollanders, by their great numbers of busses, pinkes, and line-boates: and also a discourse of the sea-coast townes of England, and the most fit and commodious places, and harbours that wee haue for busses, and of the small number of our fishermen, and also the true valuation, and whole charge, of building, and furnishing, to sea, busses, and pinks, after the Holland manner. By Tobias Gentleman, fisherman and marriner., and A discourse of the fishery briefly laying open, not only the advantages, and facility of the undertaking, but likewise the absolute necessity of it, in order to the well-being, both of king, and people : asserted, and vindicated from all materiall objections / by R. L''Estrange..

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

english books, early english, books online, british seas, text creation, creation partnership, page images, will never, barreld fish, characters represented, tcp schema, represented either, early works, image sets, per annum, thousand pounds, faring men, wee haue, great britain, whole charge, providing financial, encoded edition, tcp assigned, creative commons, bit group, asking permission, one hundred, financial support, image set, markup reviewed, commercial purposes, institutions providing, gap elements, proquest page, text transcribed, national fishery, iv tiff, pfs batch, work described, without asking, images scanned, whole world, maiesties seas, tiff page, encoded text, online text, batch review, xml conversion, great numbers, new inuention

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are To the King and both Houses of Parliament in Parliament assembled A discourse of the fishery briefly laying open, not only the advantages, and facility of the undertaking, but likewise the absolute necessity of it, in order to the well-being, both of king, and people : asserted, and vindicated from all materiall objections / by R. L''Estrange., and A vindication of a national-fishery wherein is asserted that the glory, wealth, strength, safety, and happiness of this kingdom, with the flourishing of trade, and growth of navigation, as also the employing of the poor of this realm, doth depend (under God) upon a national-fishery : and all the general, vulgar, (tho'' erroneous) objections against encouraging the fishery of England, answer''d, and confuted : to which is added the sovreignty of British-seas..

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, england, hollanders, fishery, english, dutch, trade, seas, sea, richard, people, pattent, north, nation, money, maiesties, london, kingdom, inuention, herrings, fund, fleet, fishing, fishermen, busses, british

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 great, and Englands vvay to vvin vvealth, and to employ ships and marriners: or, A plaine description of what great profite, it will bring vnto the common-wealth of England, by the erecting, building, and aduenturing of busses, to sea, a fishing With a true relation of the inestimable wealth that is yearely taken out of his Maiesties seas, by the Hollanders, by their great numbers of busses, pinkes, and line-boates: and also a discourse of the sea-coast townes of England, and the most fit and commodious places, and harbours that wee haue for busses, and of the small number of our fishermen, and also the true valuation, and whole charge, of building, and furnishing, to sea, busses, and pinks, after the Holland manner. By Tobias Gentleman, fisherman and marriner. 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, text, time, fish, people, money, ships, work, texts, year, charge, works, wealth, part, nation, busses, reason, characters, fishing, ▪, xml, herrings, books, want, trade, images, pound, page, t, pounds, man, image, times, number, manner, hath, places, hundreth, coasts, themselues, place, none, keying, good, elements, eebo, edition, boates, project, owne

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, do, was, were, make, being, been, had, take, made, did, taken, said, haue, come, encoded, know, bring, set, has, brought, according, 〈, sell, done, based, go, fish, carry, vnto, put, let, give, -, sold, published, bee, see, get, encouraged, say, returned, remaining, having, appear, represented, preserve

Proper Nouns

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

◊, 〉, 〈, england, sea, fishery, english, seas, tcp, hollanders, trade, king, busses, kingdom, fishing, land, holland, herrings, men, ships, london, dutch, haue, nation, text, british, parliament, majesty, tei, fishermen, eebo, north, ●, yermouth, world, great, god, oxford, hath, towne, maiesties, wee, doe, countries, proquest, phase, partnership, france, fleet, creation

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?"

they, it, their, our, his, them, we, i, he, us, your, my, you, her, themselves, him, me, she, vnto, ours, its, theirs, himself, rhey, one, l, gs

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?"

great, other, many, good, more, such, first, whole, early, own, english, same, most, last, true, much, common, best, ready, least, haue, small, new, former, available, greater, general, better, little, rich, certain, fit, few, barreld, able, several, necessary, large, fresh, very, second, illegible, honourable, due, wee, particular, original, only, bad, textual

not, so, then, now, also, as, well, most, more, only, very, out, never, onely, there, much, far, yet, therefore, yearely, in, too, before, thereof, here, first, away, better, still, online, ever, together, long, up, sometimes, on, even, daily, abroad, thus, thereby, over, humbly, early, likewise, further, vs, undoubtedly, forth, consequently

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.

Again, study carrels are self-contained. Download this carrel for offline viewing and use.

Thank you for using the Distant Reader.