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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 16 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 729,234 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 45,577 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 94. 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, will, man, christ, shall, may, things, one, life, death, yet, world, sin, us, spirit, men, good, therefore, now, must, without, self, first, power, made, also, gods, thing, lord, hee, nature, vs, nothing, word, great, make, soul, wee, doth, much, grace, holy, say, love, see, law, promises, know, every, many

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are A mappe of mans mortalitie Clearely manifesting the originall of death, with the nature, fruits, and effects thereof, both to the vnregenerate, and elect children of God. Diuided into three bookes; and published for the furtherance of the wise in practise, the humbling of the strong in conceit, and for the comfort and confirmation of weake Christians, against the combat of death, that they may wisely and seasonably be prepared against the same. Whereunto are annexed two consolatory sermons, for afflicted Christians, in their greatest conflicts. By Iohn Moore, minister of the word of God, at Shearsbie in Leicester-shire., A treatise of the divine promises in five bookes : in the first, a generall description of their nature, kinds, excellency, right use, properties, and the persons to whom they belong : in the foure last, a declaration of the covenant it selfe .../ by Edvvard Legh ..., and The naturall mans case stated, or, An exact map of the little world man considered in both his capacities, either in the state of nature or grace / as is laid down in XVII sermons by that late truely orthodox divine, Mr. Christopher Love ... ; whereunto is annexed The saints triumph over death, being his funeral sermon, by that painful labourer in the Lords vineyard, Mr. Tho. Manton ....

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

jesus christ, god will, let vs, every man, wicked men, holy ghost, every one, without christ, nothing else, gods children, hee will, one another, eternall life, let us, god doth, early english, english books, without god, must needs, wee must, every thing, gods word, whole world, womans seed, will give, books online, iesus christ, wee haue, wicked man, will make, holy spirit, vnto vs, saith one, wee may, man may, may see, lord will, gods promises, good things, bring forth, shall see, gods spirit, god himselfe, take away, christ jesus, holy trinity, outward man, page images, two things, absolutely perfect

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are A description of the state and condition of all mankinde upon the face of the whole earth. And a discovery unto all; shewing what man was in his creation before transgression, and what he is in transgression ... Also, the way of restoration, of salvation, redemption, and of life eternal, is here declared ... that all may come to the knowledge of the Creator, and to have fellowship with him again, from whom all the children of men are separated in the state of enmity, and are ignorant of him, and drove from his presence. This is to go abroad into all the earth, through the whole world ... that they ... may be restored again to serve, and worship, and glorifie the living God, who made heaven and earth, and all things therein. By ... Edward Burrough. An apologie concerning perfection being a fundamentall answer and reply upon Esaiah Stiefel his exposition of four texts of the Holy Scripture written in the year 1622 ... / by Jacob Behme, also called Teutonicus philosophus ; Englished by John Sparrow., and Anthroposophia theomagica or A discourse of the nature of man and his state after death; grounded on his creator''s proto-chimistry, and verifi''d by a practicall examination of principles in the great world. By Eugenius Philalethes..

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:

god, spirit, man, christ, tcp, soul, lord, thing, power, life, apostle, world, word, nature, love, law, haue, gods, father, divine, creature, covenant, cor, church, body, wee, self, scripture, rom, psal, maker, jesus, image, hath, grace, good, fire, creation, beings, wisdom, understanding, truth, tree, text, temple, sunne, substance, state, sin, serpent

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 The spirit of man, or, Some meditations (by way of essay) on the sense of that scripture, 1 Thes. 1:23 ... by Charles Morton ... 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?":

man, things, death, life, men, sin, world, thing, self, nothing, power, nature, way, word, promises, heart, body, time, soul, hath, grace, faith, hee, reason, knowledge, end, flesh, hope, mind, part, promise, day, viz, place, t, cause, people, doth, children, soule, glory, matter, being, hearts, sinne, love, light, psal, truth, state

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, were, being, do, made, had, make, say, see, know, come, been, said, let, hath, did, according, take, give, called, done, put, think, consider, am, set, promised, concerning, given, doth, become, live, haue, find, taken, created, makes, having, brought, bring, cast, manifested, has, suppose, found, speak

Proper Nouns

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

god, christ, spirit, lord, thou, hath, 〉, ◊, gods, 〈, man, wee, law, doe, heaven, covenant, world, psal, holy, divine, adam, hee, ●, father, c., love, life, cor, sinne, jesus, esay, rom, word, haue, soul, grace, christs, yea, nature, flesh, gen., church, mans, eternall, vs, chap, death, will, owne, image

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, they, we, our, their, i, him, them, you, us, my, its, your, thy, himself, me, her, themselves, thee, she, one, theirs, vp, yours, ours, gods, mine, vnto, †, yee, ye, whereof, hee, thou, ourselves, elias, ys, whosoever, whence, thēselues, ps, non, l, involv''d, hitherto, hic, hers, hel

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, good, such, great, same, own, many, more, first, true, whole, little, holy, much, wicked, necessary, present, particular, saith, outward, full, common, perfect, very, new, most, able, least, general, dead, better, greater, last, best, divine, greatest, second, old, former, wise, infinite, free, excellent, righteous, godly, possible, doth, ready, sure, right

not, so, then, therefore, now, more, also, only, yet, as, most, here, thus, up, very, out, well, first, much, never, onely, away, that, forth, is, ever, even, vs, again, all, thereof, indeed, still, together, there, in, off, else, rather, too, secondly, no, hence, otherwise, at, long, before, once, wholly, 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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