Summary of your 'study carrel' ============================== This is a summary of your Distant Reader 'study carrel'. The Distant Reader harvested & cached your content into a collection/corpus. It then applied sets of natural language processing and text mining against the collection. The results of this process was reduced to a database file -- a 'study carrel'. The study carrel can then be queried, thus bringing light specific characteristics for your collection. These characteristics can help you summarize the collection as well as enumerate things you might want to investigate more closely. This report is a terse narrative report, and when processing is complete you will be linked to a more complete narrative report. Eric Lease Morgan Number of items in the collection; 'How big is my corpus?' ---------------------------------------------------------- 4 Average length of all items measured in words; "More or less, how big is each item?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4165 Average readability score of all items (0 = difficult; 100 = easy) ------------------------------------------------------------------ 74 Top 50 statistically significant keywords; "What is my collection about?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3 England 2 Saint 2 King 2 France 1 town 1 time 1 sidenote 1 master 1 great 1 gild 1 craft 1 company 1 come 1 Wilfrid 1 Welsh 1 Vol 1 Tomaso 1 State 1 Shrewsbury 1 Richard 1 Ranulph 1 Quentin 1 Queen 1 Paris 1 Middle 1 Merchant 1 Mercers 1 Master 1 Mary 1 Martin 1 London 1 Ibid 1 Histoire 1 Henry 1 Guy 1 Guilds 1 Gilds 1 Florence 1 Fagniez 1 Elizabeth 1 Edward 1 Edrupt 1 Documents 1 David 1 Dame 1 Crown 1 Craft 1 Coventry 1 Calimala 1 Brother Top 50 lemmatized nouns; "What is discussed?" --------------------------------------------- 356 man 352 town 345 time 323 work 306 guild 281 trade 255 day 229 master 227 year 208 company 186 craft 153 sidenote 149 way 149 p. 149 century 148 merchant 147 hand 141 place 132 gild 127 member 126 one 125 part 122 country 117 life 117 industry 116 wall 115 power 112 city 111 thing 109 boy 108 house 107 case 104 market 102 workman 102 system 101 authority 100 people 96 king 94 regulation 92 stone 91 right 91 name 91 history 90 class 88 apprentice 87 head 86 law 85 end 84 weaver 84 order Top 50 proper nouns; "What are the names of persons or places?" -------------------------------------------------------------- 1788 _ 235 Gilds 194 King 176 Gild 170 England 160 London 138 Shrewsbury 133 © 129 France 102 Henry 83 Paris 77 Merchant 72 Guilds 67 Master 65 Guild 64 et 64 Brother 62 English 61 Basil 60 II 59 Tomaso 59 I. 59 Barbara 58 Saint 58 Richard 58 David 57 Mary 56 vol 56 Middle 56 Guy 55 Florence 55 Ages 54 Queen 52 Quentin 51 Craft 49 Ã 49 S. 48 Ranulph 48 Histoire 48 Barty 47 pp 46 State 46 Edward 45 de 44 Padraig 44 Edrupt 42 Dame 42 . 41 IV 40 Wilfrid Top 50 personal pronouns nouns; "To whom are things referred?" ------------------------------------------------------------- 1743 it 1333 he 1065 they 567 i 415 them 399 you 359 we 288 she 265 him 129 themselves 91 me 68 her 67 himself 66 us 66 itself 21 one 15 herself 12 myself 8 thee 7 yourself 6 theirs 5 yours 5 ourselves 4 ours 3 mine 3 ''s 2 ye 1 pelf 1 o 1 blither Top 50 lemmatized verbs; "What do things do?" --------------------------------------------- 6512 be 2053 have 584 make 573 do 445 say 385 come 328 see 323 take 276 go 254 know 237 find 219 give 168 look 164 become 154 keep 150 call 144 work 135 use 127 seem 121 bring 117 hold 108 tell 107 set 106 show 103 think 99 pay 98 begin 94 live 91 get 90 leave 84 ask 81 carry 81 appear 76 sell 75 follow 75 bear 74 hear 71 put 70 pass 70 grow 69 stand 69 draw 65 allow 63 learn 62 form 61 turn 59 want 58 try 58 build 56 speak Top 50 lemmatized adjectives and adverbs; "How are things described?" --------------------------------------------------------------------- 949 not 341 more 301 so 285 great 259 other 246 little 234 up 226 old 223 only 209 out 205 well 200 very 195 then 195 good 188 also 186 long 184 own 178 now 175 even 168 new 166 many 156 same 153 as 148 most 139 such 137 first 134 much 131 here 118 never 118 certain 115 too 114 still 105 early 103 thus 102 small 101 there 100 down 95 however 94 on 94 far 93 later 93 common 91 sometimes 83 less 83 large 81 back 79 often 76 young 76 just 74 always Top 50 lemmatized superlative adjectives; "How are things described to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 43 most 39 least 38 good 19 early 15 great 9 high 6 strong 5 old 5 Most 4 rich 4 low 4 fine 3 young 3 late 3 bad 2 weak 2 new 2 near 2 j 2 close 1 worthy 1 wide 1 wealthy 1 tiny 1 small 1 slight 1 simple 1 short 1 scanty 1 safe 1 rude 1 reconqu 1 rare 1 proud 1 mild 1 mean 1 long 1 large 1 l 1 heavy 1 haverfordw 1 gay 1 full 1 firm 1 ff 1 fast 1 fair 1 eld 1 discreet 1 clear Top 50 lemmatized superlative adverbs; "How do things do to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 105 most 10 well 5 least Top 50 Internet domains; "What Webbed places are alluded to in this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Top 50 URLs; "What is hyperlinked from this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------- Top 50 email addresses; "Who are you gonna call?" ------------------------------------------------- Top 50 positive assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-noun?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 _ is so 2 companies were not 2 guild was often 2 guilds were more 2 guilds were not 2 time went on 2 town was also 1 _ are evidently 1 _ be residents 1 _ came back 1 _ has very 1 _ have always 1 _ is also 1 _ is apparently 1 _ leave _ 1 _ took charge 1 _ was due 1 _ were uniformly 1 centuries were yet 1 century had ever 1 century was fruitful 1 century was peculiarly 1 century went on 1 companies are almost 1 companies found many 1 companies had long 1 companies show permanence 1 companies were quite 1 companies were severally 1 company are impoverished 1 company being expressly 1 company did not 1 company had not 1 company is much 1 company paid attention 1 company was past 1 craft make laws 1 craft was often 1 crafts did not 1 crafts had not 1 crafts was often 1 day is little 1 days were anxious 1 days were very 1 england became more 1 england did not 1 england was always 1 england was essentially 1 france made known 1 gild are too Top 50 negative assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-no|not-noun?" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 _ being no founders 1 companies were not backward 1 companies were not slow 1 crafts did not clearly 1 gilds is not entirely 1 gilds was not entirely 1 guild was not only 1 guilds were not only 1 london was no place 1 master had no work 1 masters were not always 1 members have no interest 1 merchant was not there A rudimentary bibliography -------------------------- id = 44966 author = Cunningham, W. (William) title = Craft Gilds date = keywords = Coventry; craft; gild; time summary = craft gilds in their later days were contaminated by this lower view industry, and speak chiefly of the craft gilds of Coventry. The objects and powers of mediæval craft gilds. There were weavers'' gilds also in a considerable number of other towns Institutions analogous to craft gilds appear to have existed in some craft gilds springing up--they were called into being, like the old King John, is the Bakers'' Gild at Coventry; it still consists of men In looking more closely at the powers of mediæval craft gilds, it is thing about a craft gild was that it had been empowered to exercise municipal authorities on the other; (2) between one craft gild and another; (3) between different members of a craft gild. Master of the craft gild; and strict regulations were laid down by the The disappearance of the craft gilds appears to have been seventeenth century differ from the craft gilds of the fifteenth, id = 39030 author = Hibbert, Francis Aiden title = The Influence and Development of English Gilds As Illustrated by the History of the Craft Gilds of Shrewsbury date = keywords = Act; Craft; Edward; Elizabeth; England; Gilds; Henry; Ibid; King; Mercers; Merchant; Shrewsbury; Vol; Welsh; company; sidenote; town summary = [Sidenote: _Importance of history of its Gilds._] The records of the later Craft Gilds at Shrewsbury are entirely supervision of trade, corresponding to the later Merchant Gild in nearly Merchant Gilds appear in one or two of the charters granted to towns[29], municipal officer in towns where there was no Merchant Gild[33]. MEMBERS OF THE SHREWSBURY MERCHANT GILD. an occasion of especial prominence at Shrewsbury, where the Gild charters [Sidenote: _The later "Merchant Gild."_] [Sidenote: _Identity of interests of Corporation and Gilds seen in Police In the composition of the Trade Gilds there was no attempt to erect a [Sidenote: _Charters granted to Craft Gilds._] [Sidenote: _The new companies show permanence of Gild-feeling._] [Sidenote: _The Gilds have changed to capitalist companies._] Pidgeon''s Some Account of the Ancient Gilds, Trading Companies, and the Merchant Gilds, the chief difference between town and country, 12, 21 town gild, 13, 31 id = 36934 author = Lamprey, Louise title = In the Days of the Guild date = keywords = Abbey; Barbara; Barty; Basil; Brother; Dame; David; Edrupt; England; France; Guy; King; London; Mary; Master; Queen; Quentin; Ranulph; Richard; Saint; Tomaso; Wilfrid; come summary = "Here is the money for thy wool, my lad," the old man said kindly. "But they are doing no work here," said the old man. the dignity and kindliness of the old man''s ways were like a voice from long time before he was strong enough to handle stone like his father. He was a boy like you when he began to learn the work of the "What can you do?" asked the old man shortly, still working at his piece "And you want to learn my trade--eh?" said the old man a little more hand work together like two good comrades." ancient craft in a town where men hardly knew what good work was. boy does work like this I doubt Edrupt may be right when he says our ten a wall-painting so full of life and color that it looked like a live id = 45425 author = Renard, Georges François title = Guilds in the Middle Ages date = keywords = Ages; Arte; Calimala; Crown; Documents; England; Fagniez; Florence; France; Guilds; Histoire; Martin; Middle; Paris; Saint; State; great; master summary = In the great days of the Guild system the industrial market was almost the earlier days of the Guild system industry was local in character, "Guild Merchant," a general organization including both trading and body gave way to a system of Craft Guilds, each representing as a rule to town or to Guild, was far less a matter of economic policy than Guilds and the trading or merchant class which was gradually extending English Guild Merchants, and the _Arte di Calimala_ in the commune great merchant guilds might arise in the course of trade even with In "great" commerce the guild regulated the conditions which made the head of the guild only created new master butchers every seven which the great guilds rose; and in those days the organized world followed by that of the great industrial guilds, destined in some the great commercial and industrial guilds which no longer allowed