Distant Reader - subject-kingsAndRulers-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 31 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 1,196,290 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 38,590 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:

king, et, god, kings, will, may, one, shall, ad, people, de, great, good, ut, prince, much, men, qui, lord, per, man, many, pro, first, cum, without, make, made, yet, let, things, est, non, power, well, time, like, princes, also, haue, us, now, te, therefore, must, law, though, others, vnto, deus

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are The signal loyalty and devotion of God''s true saints and pious Christians, especially in this our island towards their kings: (as also of some idolatrous pagans) Both before, and under the law and gospel; expressed by their private and publick prayers, supplications, intercessions, thanksgivings, well-wishes for the health, safety, long life, prosperity, temporal, spiritual, eternal felicity of the kings and emperours under whom they lived, whether pagan or Christian, bad or good, heterodox or orthodox, Papists or Protestants, persecutors or protectors of them: and likewise for their royal issue, posterity realms; and by their dutiful conscientious obedience and subjection to them; with the true reasons thereof from scripture and policy. Evidenced by presidents and testimonies in all ages, worthy the knowledg, imitation, and serious consideration of our present degenerated disloyal, antimonarchical generation. In two parts. By William Prynne Esq; late bencher, and reader of Lincolns-In, The first and second part of the signal loyalty and devotion of Gods true saints and pious Christians (as also of some idolatrous pagans) tovvards their kings, both before and under the law, and Gospel especially in this our island. Expressed in and by their private and publike private loyal supplications, prayers, intercession, thanksgiving, votes, acclamations, salutations, epistles, addresses, benedictions, options of long life, health, wealth, safety, victory, peace, prosperity, all temporal, spiritual, eternal blessings, felicities to their kings persons, families, queens, children, realms, armies, officers, chearfull subjections and dutifull obedience to them: whethe [sic] good, or bad, Christians, or pagans, orthodox, or heterodox, protectors, or persecutors of them. With the true reasons thereof from Scripture and policy. Evidenced by varieties of presidents, testimonies and authorities in al ages, ... Whereunto the several forms, ceremonies, prayers, collects, benedictions and consecrations, used at the coronations of Christian emperors, kings, queens (more particularly in England and Scotland, not formerly published) and of the Mahometan and Ægyptian kings, are annexed. By, and Policie vnveiled vvherein may be learned, the order of true policie in kingdomes, and common-wealths: the matters of justice, and government; the addresses, maxims, and reasons of state: the science of governing well a people: and where the subject may learne true obedience unto their kings, princes, and soveraignes. Written in Spanish, and translated into English by I.M. of Magdalen Hall in Oxford..

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

dominum nostrum, per dominum, usque ad, let us, english books, early english, jesus christ, every one, omnipotens deus, pro salute, roman non, king henry, books online, holy ghost, saecula saeculorum, spiritus sancti, regni nostri, king charles, almighty god, famulum tuum, king edward, king james, et pro, per omnia, pro rege, page images, et ad, spiritu sancto, pro nobis, et cum, text creation, vivit regnat, creation partnership, literae diriguntur, dominus noster, king william, consimiles literae, ad altare, long life, deus qui, per eundem, qui cum, make use, one another, qui tecum, lord god, et post, omnia saecula, dii te, right hand

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are Anno regni Gulielmi et Mariæ, regnis & reginæ Angliæ, Scotiæ, Franciæ, & Hiberniæ, secundo. On the fourtheenth day of April, Anno Dom. 1690. In the second year of their Majesties reign, this act passed the royal assent. An act for recognizing King William and Queen Mary, and for avoiding all questions touching the acts made in the Parliament assembled at Westminster the thirteenth day of February, 1688. A cat may look upon a king, and The Scotch souldiers speech concerning the Kings coronation-oath..

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:

king, god, lord, tcp, people, law, government, crown, prince, laws, subjects, parliament, england, sword, son, nations, majesty, edward, church, royal, realm, princes, prayers, nation, ministers, majesties, great, father, charles, world, supplications, state, stage, spiritus, senate, scepter, saints, rod, rex, regum, regni, regis, regina, rege, queen, prophet, pro, nobles, metropolitanus, man

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 The interests of the several princes and states of Europe consider''d, with respect to the succession of the crown of Spain, and the titles of the several pretenders thereto examin''d 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?":

kings, people, ad, men, man, things, time, king, t, others, power, p., life, reason, thing, subjects, et, words, way, nothing, part, end, place, hand, day, death, one, heart, name, hands, prayers, self, themselues, person, hee, nature, hath, times, peace, truth, world, persons, doth, enemies, wealth, title, none, eyes, quod, word

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, was, have, were, had, being, did, do, make, made, let, been, said, see, take, say, has, come, know, put, give, done, set, hath, according, haue, having, think, taken, pray, makes, given, qui, used, called, sit, ''s, vnto, go, does, found, bee, live, find, brought, came, keep, am

Proper Nouns

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

king, god, et, 〉, ●, ◊, c., prince, 〈, de, lord, cum, est, qui, te, princes, deus, l., law, crown, hath, rex, anno, ut, tac, government, thou, regni, church, dei, christ, à, england, ab, david, regem, kings, henry, emperor, lib, deo, haue, kingdom, father, majesty, prayers, regis, son, quam, france

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?"

his, it, he, their, they, them, him, i, our, we, you, your, thy, himself, us, her, my, me, its, themselves, thee, she, ''em, one, theirs, ye, vp, vnto, ours, mine, em, oleo, us''d, herself, belf, ●, diu, †, yours, hers, dum, tuae, quae, hee, tollit, thou, sign''d, s, ourselves, non

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, good, many, such, own, same, more, first, much, common, true, pro, whole, most, greater, least, present, little, better, particular, wise, last, non, best, private, greatest, necessary, very, able, second, long, high, former, new, right, publick, few, free, like, ill, saith, certain, next, old, several, roman, full, general, due

not, so, then, more, most, also, only, well, now, very, as, therefore, thus, much, up, ever, out, never, yet, too, even, rather, first, thereof, onely, down, here, there, likewise, once, always, again, together, away, often, sometimes, off, especially, no, afterwards, forth, long, in, still, easily, just, far, indeed, all, n''t

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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