subject-londonderryNorthernIreland-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 132,286 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 14,698 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 90. 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:

us, lord, men, shall, mr, great, town, will, derry, one, god, enemy, may, time, collonel, th, city, london, day, garrison, captain, several, made, horse, governour, officers, walker, sent, people, general, irish, good, two, king, many, came, well, lieutenant, place, now, lundy, make, account, army, give, foot, regiment, capt, text, let

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are A narrative of the siege of London-Derry, or, The late memorable transactions of that city faithfully represented to rectifie the mistakes and supply the omissions of Mr. Walker''s account / by John Mackenzie ... ; the most material passages relating to other parts of Ulster and Sligo are also inserted from the memoirs of such as were chiefly concerned in them., The Protestant''s crums of comfort containing I. Prayers and meditations, with ejaculations for every day in the week, and other occasions. II. Thanksgivings for deliverances from Popery, tyranny, and arbitrary power. III. The rebellion in Ireland, and massacre of Paris. IV. The learned Bishop Usher''s prophecy, concerning Ireland, and the downfall of Rome. V. Advice to the late besieged in London-Derry, under that reverend divine and valiant commander, Coll. George Walker. Illustrated with pictures suitable to each particular occasion., and A true account of the siege of London-Derry by the Reverend Mr. George Walker ....

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

collonel lundy, early english, english books, sir arthur, lieutenant collonel, major general, books online, george walker, king james, lieutenant general, let us, one pound, protestant religion, page images, next day, mean time, text creation, creation partnership, irish army, arthur rawden, take care, jesus christ, lord kingston, thought fit, two regiments, governour baker, give us, general hamilton, characters represented, robert lundy, lord god, represented either, image sets, tcp schema, lord mountjoy, james hamilton, governour lundy, late king, next morning, king william, lord tyrconnel, general kirk, god will, th day, will never, captain james, left us, among us, holy name, one mr

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are A vindication of the true account of the siege of Derry in Ireland by Mr. George Walker, &c. ; published by authority. A true account of the siege of London-Derry by the Reverend Mr. George Walker ..., and The Protestant''s crums of comfort containing I. Prayers and meditations, with ejaculations for every day in the week, and other occasions. II. Thanksgivings for deliverances from Popery, tyranny, and arbitrary power. III. The rebellion in Ireland, and massacre of Paris. IV. The learned Bishop Usher''s prophecy, concerning Ireland, and the downfall of Rome. V. Advice to the late besieged in London-Derry, under that reverend divine and valiant commander, Coll. George Walker. Illustrated with pictures suitable to each particular occasion..

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:

lord, walker, town, tcp, garrison, enemy, army, officers, men, london, horse, governour, god, general, derry, city, william, spirit, soul, siege, regiment, protestants, prayer, people, mr., mercy, meditations, majesties, lieutenant, kingdom, king, irish, earth, early, council, collonel, col, captain, capt, book

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 lord, and A vindication of the true account of the siege of Derry in Ireland by Mr. George Walker, &c. ; published by authority. 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:

1. men - A narrative of the siege of London-Derry, or, The late memorable transactions of that city faithfully represented to rectifie the mistakes and supply the omissions of Mr. Walker''s account / by John Mackenzie ... ; the most material passages relating to other parts of Ulster and Sligo are also inserted from the memoirs of such as were chiefly concerned in them.
2. thy - The Protestant''s crums of comfort containing I. Prayers and meditations, with ejaculations for every day in the week, and other occasions. II. Thanksgivings for deliverances from Popery, tyranny, and arbitrary power. III. The rebellion in Ireland, and massacre of Paris. IV. The learned Bishop Usher''s prophecy, concerning Ireland, and the downfall of Rome. V. Advice to the late besieged in London-Derry, under that reverend divine and valiant commander, Coll. George Walker. Illustrated with pictures suitable to each particular occasion.
3. london - Mr. John Mackenzyes Narrative of the siege of London-Derry a false libel, in defence of Dr. George Walker written by a friend in his absence.

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:

1. men, town, enemy - A narrative of the siege of London-Derry, or, The late memorable transactions of that city faithfully represented to rectifie the mistakes and supply the omissions of Mr. Walker''s account / by John Mackenzie ... ; the most material passages relating to other parts of Ulster and Sligo are also inserted from the memoirs of such as were chiefly concerned in them.
2. thy, god, lord - The Protestant''s crums of comfort containing I. Prayers and meditations, with ejaculations for every day in the week, and other occasions. II. Thanksgivings for deliverances from Popery, tyranny, and arbitrary power. III. The rebellion in Ireland, and massacre of Paris. IV. The learned Bishop Usher''s prophecy, concerning Ireland, and the downfall of Rome. V. Advice to the late besieged in London-Derry, under that reverend divine and valiant commander, Coll. George Walker. Illustrated with pictures suitable to each particular occasion.
3. said, london, derry - Mr. John Mackenzyes Narrative of the siege of London-Derry a false libel, in defence of Dr. George Walker written by a friend in his absence.
4. ver, souldier, camp - The Christian champion being the substance of a second discourse to the besieged soldiers in London-derry ... / by Col. W----.
5. excepting, defeated, downe - Newes from London-derry in Ireland, or, A true and sad relation of the deplorable and lamentable estate of London-derry which is much distressed by reason of the Rebels neare approaches unto it : and the menaces and treats they daily send unto them to make them deliver up their city : also how they burnt the towne of Strabam with many people in it / related in a letter from one Mr. William Griffin to one Mr. Iames Humphry of Stuke in Berkshire Gent. Febr. 20. 1641.

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, day, men, people, place, others, part, pound, way, things, text, man, account, side, thing, care, arms, walls, order, enemies, works, number, officers, letter, orders, companies, rest, power, end, days, work, texts, lives, defence, reason, t, parts, none, horse, design, name, characters, self, hand, selves, person, hands, thy, persons, party

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, was, were, is, had, have, are, being, said, been, made, sent, did, do, came, make, having, give, let, put, take, taken, has, come, done, left, given, brought, took, went, thought, go, send, see, ordered, got, gave, think, found, coming, according, received, lost, find, bring, killed, keep, resolved, lay, encoded

Proper Nouns

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

lord, mr., god, town, derry, enemy, collonel, men, london, garrison, walker, captain, city, governour, lundy, king, lieutenant, army, general, horse, foot, james, irish, col, protestants, england, officers, major, council, hamilton, ., john, tcp, sir, 〉, ireland, capt, regiment, thou, kingdom, july, siege, william, ◊, c., english, coll, protestant, march, majesties

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?"

their, they, his, he, our, them, it, we, us, him, i, you, thy, my, your, me, themselves, ''em, himself, thee, her, its, she, theirs, em, yours, mine, one, ye, us''d, ●, whereof, thou, shou''d, s, ours, l

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, several, such, many, same, good, own, more, little, whole, most, few, first, small, last, present, much, true, necessary, next, considerable, late, early, least, irish, best, able, particular, new, english, greater, poor, common, private, general, ready, better, greatest, fit, strong, dead, full, due, mean, very, gracious, willing, available, further

not, so, very, then, up, out, as, well, now, there, about, only, therefore, also, down, more, soon, most, off, never, even, over, much, here, too, in, away, immediately, ever, yet, again, afterwards, on, before, accordingly, first, thus, indeed, together, forth, especially, back, all, rather, no, long, far, thereof, particularly, early

Next steps

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