Distant Reader - subject-gunpowderPlot-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 26 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 476,378 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 18,322 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 92. 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, may, shall, will, lord, yet, haue, king, great, one, church, say, us, vs, now, like, men, good, might, day, made, time, first, let, make, many, vpon, religion, man, vnto, must, kings, much, doth, pope, see, saith, english, text, things, wee, treason, though, also, therefore, people, well, christ, hee, take

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are Great Brittans little calendar: or, Triple diarie, in remembrance of three daies Diuided into three treatises. 1. Britanniæ vota: or God saue the King: for the 24. day of March, the day of his Maiesties happy proclamation. 2. Cæsaris hostes: or, the tragedy of traytors: for the fift of August: the day of the bloudy Gowries treason, and of his Highnes blessed preseruation. 3. Amphitheatrum scelerum: or, the transcendent of treason: the day of a most admirable deliuerance of our King ... from that most horrible and hellish proiect of the Gun-Powder Treason Nouemb. 5. Whereunto is annexed a short disswasiue from poperie. By Samuel Garey, preacher of Gods Word at Wynfarthing in Norff., A brand taken out of the fire. Or The Romish spider, with his webbe of treason. VVouen and broken together with the seuerall vses that the world and Church shall make thereof. By T. Cooper, preacher of Gods word., and The first step, towards heaven, or Anna the prophetesse sacred haunt, to the temple of God. Preached at Standish Church in the Countie of Lancaster. By VVilliam Leigh, Batchillor of Diuinity and paster there. With the second edition of great Brittaines deliuerance, newly corrected and enlarged by the author..

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

early english, english books, let vs, books online, haue beene, page images, text creation, creation partnership, vnto vs, let us, holy ghost, may say, wee haue, characters represented, tcp schema, image sets, represented either, wee may, sir everard, one hundred, king james, shall see, powder treason, lord admiral, god saue, father garnet, wee shall, take away, might haue, every one, lords annointed, everard digby, two hundred, iesus christ, gunpowder plot, great deliverance, one day, sermon preached, spanish fleet, must needs, god will, true nature, parliament house, may see, will never, vnto god, online text, iv tiff, lord will, images scanned

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are The papists powder treason 1588, Deo trin-vni Britanniae bis ultori in memoriam classis invincibilis subversae submersae : proditionis nesandae detectae disiectae : To God, in memorye of his double deliverance from ye invincible navie and ye unmatcheable powder treason, 1605 / invented by Samuell Ward. A sermon on the gunpowder treason, with reflections on the late plot by Thomas Wilson ..., and A vindication of the history of the gunpowder-treason and of the proceedings and matters relating thereunto, from the exceptions which have been made against it, and more especially of late years by the author of the Catholick apologie, and others : to which is added, A parallel betwixt that and the present popish plot..

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, god, king, lord, church, religion, prince, parliament, haue, thy, gods, english, day, treason, psal, pope, israel, great, garnet, england, christ, wee, text, spanish, spaniards, souldiers, sea, saints, rome, queene, queen, powder, percy, papists, nation, mariners, man, iewes, house, fleet, father, earth, catesby, zeal, yea, world, winter, vpon, tribute, traytors

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 Great Brittans little calendar: or, Triple diarie, in remembrance of three daies Diuided into three treatises. 1. Britanniæ vota: or God saue the King: for the 24. day of March, the day of his Maiesties happy proclamation. 2. Cæsaris hostes: or, the tragedy of traytors: for the fift of August: the day of the bloudy Gowries treason, and of his Highnes blessed preseruation. 3. Amphitheatrum scelerum: or, the transcendent of treason: the day of a most admirable deliuerance of our King ... from that most horrible and hellish proiect of the Gun-Powder Treason Nouemb. 5. Whereunto is annexed a short disswasiue from poperie. By Samuel Garey, preacher of Gods Word at Wynfarthing in Norff. 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?":

day, time, men, man, things, p., religion, people, kings, others, life, power, hand, death, heart, enemies, thing, hands, way, name, text, world, doth, nothing, fire, blood, hearts, place, part, faith, hath, rest, cause, hee, earth, reason, glory, treason, danger, t, king, children, peace, truth, themselues, end, none, work, matter, texts

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:

be, is, was, were, had, are, have, did, say, being, made, let, make, do, been, see, said, take, come, haue, put, done, taken, sent, set, know, vnto, came, brought, hath, according, found, pray, thought, neuer, lay, give, find, ''s, called, bee, bring, given, having, fall, tell, encoded, stand, blessed, laid

Proper Nouns

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

god, lord, king, church, c., thou, haue, 〉, pope, hath, 〈, ◊, christ, wee, rome, tcp, england, english, gods, de, prince, treason, lib, garnet, plot, parliament, yea, est, popes, text, powder, lords, doe, catesby, ●, israel, owne, sir, peter, father, hee, beene, london, vp, t, princes, papists, house, religion, 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, their, they, he, them, our, i, we, him, you, her, your, us, my, thy, me, she, themselves, himself, thee, its, theirs, vp, ours, one, ''s, yours, vnto, mine, ye, l, thou, whereof, u, nulla, non, f, †, z, yf, y, wh, vvith, vitiū, thēselues, sat, s, ninety, negligēt

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, such, other, good, many, same, more, true, first, own, much, wicked, little, full, holy, saith, most, greater, whole, second, last, common, high, english, early, haue, present, best, like, better, right, old, new, least, happy, ready, former, popish, dead, late, able, due, general, bloody, third, next, small, few, particular, worthy

not, so, then, now, thus, yet, most, more, out, up, also, therefore, as, well, there, vs, only, onely, first, here, too, very, never, away, still, much, in, together, indeed, rather, even, forth, once, long, further, all, off, ever, down, no, again, thereof, far, before, surely, therein, vpon, on, over, sometimes

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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