Distant Reader - subject-inheritanceAndSuccession-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 9 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 119,968 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 13,329 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 86. 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:

de, king, time, one, law, laws, first, ad, made, great, shall, may, also, chap, english, now, called, lord, father, kings, vel, will, son, part, yet, without, england, lib, according, man, john, right, text, let, might, si, per, court, much, make, tcp, bishop, non, men, ancient, henry, regis, name, among, lands

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are Tracts written by John Selden of the Inner-Temple, Esquire ; the first entituled, Jani Anglorvm facies altera, rendred into English, with large notes thereupon, by Redman Westcot, Gent. ; the second, England''s epinomis ; the third, Of the original of ecclesiastical jurisdictions of testaments ; the fourth, Of the disposition or administration of intestates goods ; the three last never before extant., De successionibus apud anglos, or, A treatise of hereditary descents shewing the rise, progress and successive alterations thereof : and also the laws of descent as they are now in use., and To the honourable, the knights, citizens, and burgesses of the Commons House of Parliament The humble petition of Ierom Hawley Esquire, for and on the behalfe of Phillip Sture an infant, the sonne and heire of Tristram Sture..

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

early english, english books, books online, without issue, tells us, si quis, king john, text creation, creation partnership, lord lovelace, civil law, early works, intestates goods, king henry, great grand, page images, eldest son, item de, matthew paris, represented either, characters represented, hundred years, james percy, image sets, tcp schema, lord culpeper, now lord, chief justice, kings court, thomas lord, extrinsecal jurisdiction, knights fee, common law, mothers brother, knights service, mean time, lord fairfax, de gest, long since, king edward, roman laws, sir miles, died without, spiritual court, three hundred, julius caesar, mothers side, greek letters, one may, dies without

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are The Case of John Lord Lovelace baron of Hurley. The case of the Lord Jeffreys, and the Lady Charlotte, his wife, sole daughter and heir of Philip Earl of Pembroke, deceased, in relation to a bill entituled, an Act to set aside several amendments and alterations made in the records and writs of a fine and two recoveries in the Grand Sessions, held for the county of Glamorgan., and To the honourable, the knights, citizens, and burgesses of the Commons House of Parliament The humble petition of Ierom Hawley Esquire, for and on the behalfe of Phillip Sture an infant, the sonne and heire of Tristram Sture..

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, son, percy, william, wife, truelove, testament, spiritual, sheriff, saxons, roman, regis, recovery, realm, pope, parliament, normans, mother, lovelace, lord, line, letters, laws, latin, land, knights, kingdom, king, justice, jurisdiction, john, iury, henry, greek, grand, government, goods, gauls, french, father, fairfax, estates, english, england, edward, druids, customs, culpeper, court, county

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 king, and To the Kings most excellent Majesty, in Parliament. The humble petition of James Percy 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?":

time, ad, part, kings, man, p., men, thing, things, name, account, text, people, cap, word, times, case, author, use, laws, right, reason, quod, others, way, order, day, chap, hath, place, words, one, years, title, texts, works, hist, manner, brother, arms, t, side, death, person, characters, power, blood, self, money, year

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, was, be, were, have, are, had, made, do, called, been, did, being, according, let, said, make, take, set, concerning, say, taken, having, given, give, put, find, come, call, brought, has, came, seems, sayes, see, read, granted, encoded, think, published, preferred, go, used, tells, makes, found, appears, held, paid, know

Proper Nouns

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

〉, ◊, 〈, king, de, law, laws, l., lord, c., father, son, john, england, english, vel, lib, chap, henry, e., regis, court, tcp, i., bishop, d., lin, si, thomas, william, pag, lands, kingdom, grand, parliament, hath, arch, church, mother, h., saxons, s., land, line, justice, jurisdiction, book, edward, earl, cum

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, he, their, they, i, them, him, our, we, my, her, you, us, himself, themselves, me, your, she, its, one, thy, thee, theirs, yours, ye, yef, undisturb''d, quae, ours, mine, e''re, altera

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, great, same, such, first, ancient, own, old, many, several, good, much, common, more, whole, true, eldest, early, english, little, second, free, saith, last, next, most, like, new, very, general, third, present, right, later, publick, lawful, former, available, roman, particular, greater, certain, sive, large, least, clear, fit, usual, original, holy

not, so, also, now, then, is, only, that, here, as, very, more, up, well, thus, therefore, out, yet, most, down, much, too, there, in, first, rather, over, ever, even, together, enough, never, indeed, all, again, perhaps, long, however, otherwise, off, far, especially, before, hence, once, away, still, forth, sometimes, early

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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