Distant Reader - subject-love-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 24 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 705,249 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 29,385 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 93. 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:

love, god, will, may, one, men, good, man, us, things, yet, must, shall, much, know, many, christ, make, great, self, without, loue, world, therefore, church, like, true, doth, first, also, others, say, doe, made, nature, life, thing, soul, well, now, nothing, though, another, heart, time, knowledge, never, take, every, non

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are A treatise of knowledge and love compared in two parts: I. of falsely pretended knowledge, II. of true saving knowledge and love ... / by Richard Baxter ..., The maxims of the saints explained, concerning the interiour life by the Lord Arch-bishop of Cambray &c. ; to which are added, Thirty-four articles by the Lord Arch-Bishop of Paris, the Bishops of Meaux and Chartres, (that occasioned this book), also their declaration upon it ; together with the French-King''s and the Arch-Bishop of Cambray''s letters to the Pope upon the same subject., and Erōtomania or A treatise discoursing of the essence, causes, symptomes, prognosticks, and cure of love, or erotique melancholy. Written by Iames Ferrand Dr. of Physick.

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

roman non, one another, love god, jesus christ, early english, english books, whereof commeth, pure love, books online, must needs, every one, universal love, nothing else, page images, let us, love one, text creation, creation partnership, loue god, god will, christian love, gods loue, good works, man may, lord christ, gods word, will make, take heed, let vs, holy ghost, like manner, may know, every man, many things, many times, holy love, sensual pleasure, one thing, wee must, pretended knowledge, represented either, tcp schema, characters represented, image sets, make us, will never, true love, every thing, sauiour christ, tells us

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are Love one another: a tub lecture, preached at Watford in Hartfordshire at a conventicle on the 25. of December last, being Christmas day, by John Alexander, a joyner. His text was taken out of the epistle of Saint Iohn, and himselfe was taken by Captaine Bird, Lieutenant Rock, and other officers, from whom he received such usage as his doctrine did deserve; for which the said officers were commended by the Parliament. Fancies Phoenix. Or The peerless paragon of the times. Being a young gallants description of a lady which hee hath settled his thoughts on, resolving never to change, nor to love any other beauty or face in the world. And is perswaded if there bee, a phœnix in the world, ''tis shee. To an amorous new tune., and Margariton A rich treasure discovered of problemes and their resolves. In three parts. Amorous. Naturall Morall and politique. Faithfully translated out of French, for the profit and delight of the ingenious English of both sexes; to serve as a usefull helpe in their discourse..

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:

love, god, tcp, soul, lord, world, nature, man, life, church, christ, spirit, men, lovers, like, good, gods, faith, charity, venus, salvation, roman, loue, heart, christians, beauty, time, thou, thing, scripture, saviour, rule, religion, passion, mistresse, mind, law, lady, haue, hath, gospel, eyes, duty, divine, day, churches, christian, cause, body, zeal

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 love, and A treatise of love. Written by Iohn Rogers, ministers of Gods word in Dedham in Essex 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?":

love, men, things, man, self, others, thing, nothing, time, t, heart, life, world, part, way, nature, knowledge, reason, body, hath, doth, words, end, one, cause, eyes, good, mind, pleasure, soul, selves, day, truth, power, place, name, souls, women, sin, hearts, sense, word, state, work, persons, order, text, will, grace, works

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, have, was, do, were, know, make, love, being, had, say, made, did, been, take, see, let, give, think, come, according, said, hath, called, believe, has, speak, done, am, given, ''s, set, find, known, loue, does, makes, found, taken, call, having, live, put, tell, concerning, desire, use, doth

Proper Nouns

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

god, 〉, ◊, 〈, love, q., a., christ, church, thou, hath, doe, lord, loue, c., soul, world, ●, christians, spirit, faith, gods, nature, tcp, gospel, men, l., de, wee, man, christian, lovers, holy, melancholy, law, lover, life, churches, heaven, divine, whereof, grace, yea, ye, father, word, text, haue, duty, beauty

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, they, his, their, he, i, them, we, our, you, him, us, her, my, your, she, themselves, me, its, himself, thy, thee, one, ''em, itself, theirs, yours, herself, mine, vp, ye, ''s, ours, em, shou''d, whereof, ourselves, ay, †, vnto, thou, s, l, yéelde, vvith, us''d, tho''they, th, tak''st, oneself

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, such, good, many, great, own, true, more, same, much, first, little, non, roman, -, most, necessary, certain, common, better, greater, whole, pure, least, particular, false, few, wise, best, greatest, perfect, holy, present, last, able, old, full, contrary, new, doth, general, very, like, several, natural, due, young, free, poor, small

not, so, then, more, therefore, as, most, only, also, yet, very, now, well, never, much, up, even, thus, too, out, here, ever, rather, else, far, first, indeed, there, still, away, all, no, together, forth, especially, onely, long, in, often, again, truly, once, sometimes, down, otherwise, always, before, easily, that, alone

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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