Distant Reader - subject-monarchy-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 32 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 769,023 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 24,031 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:

king, one, people, may, kings, will, men, power, great, god, yet, first, shall, law, made, much, must, also, good, prince, well, man, time, many, make, now, laws, us, without, government, right, parliament, every, therefore, like, england, might, two, princes, common, doth, never, lord, even, state, reason, either, say, subjects, war

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are Remarks upon the most eminent of our antimonarchical authors and their writings viz. 1. the brief history of succession, 2. Plato redevivus, 3. Mr. Hunt''s Postscript, 4. Mr. Johnson''s Julian, 5. Mr. Sidney''s Papers, 6. upon the consequences of them, conspiracies and rebellions / published long since, and what may serve for answer to Mr. Sidney''s late publication of government &c., Proedria vasilikē a discourse concerning the precedency of kings : wherin the reasons and arguments of the three greatest monarks of Christendom, who claim a several right therunto, are faithfully collected, and renderd : wherby occasion is taken to make Great Britain better understood then [sic] some forren authors (either out of ignorance or interest) have represented her in order to this particular : whereunto is also adjoyned a distinct Treatise of ambassadors &c., and Monarchy, no creature of Gods making, &c. wherein is proved by Scripture and reason, that monarchicall government is against the minde of God, and that the execution of the late king was one of the fattest sacrifices that ever Queen Iustice had ... / by Iohn Cooke ....

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

tells us, roman non, english books, early english, great britain, books online, evry one, every one, every man, common law, let us, tell us, fee evry, page images, one man, wise men, text creation, creation partnership, many times, early works, nothing else, one another, taken away, three estates, french king, much less, must needs, divine right, civil war, de jure, great men, king edward, late king, many things, ten horns, man may, long time, supreme power, per diem, textual changes, original power, represented either, private persons, without asking, hundred years, holy ghost, proquest page, pfs batch, xml conversion, work described

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are A worthy panegyrick upon monarchy; written anno MDCLVIII. / By a learned and truly loyal gentleman, for information of the miserably mis-led Commonwealths-Men (falsely so called) of that deluded age; and now revived by one that honours the author, and the established government of these nations. Anglo-tyrannus, or the idea of a Norman monarch, represented in the paralell reignes of Henrie the Third and Charles kings of England, wherein the whole management of affairs under the Norman kings is manifested, together with the real ground, and rise of all those former, and these latter contestations between the princes, and people of this nation, upon the score of prerogative and liberty. And the impious, abusive, and delusive practises are in short discovered, by which the English have been bobbed of their freedome, and the Norman tyrannie founded and continued over them. / By G.W. of Lincolnes Inne., and The common-vvealth of Israel, or A brief account of Mr. Prynne''s anatomy of the good old cause. By H.S..

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, government, god, people, laws, law, power, monarchy, england, tcp, prince, council, authority, parliament, war, subjects, lord, commons, church, state, royal, roman, pope, man, lords, house, crown, country, city, army, son, soldiers, men, majesty, land, kingdome, kingdom, fortune, father, english, court, children, chap, world, vertue, sword, romans, religion, rebels, persons

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 A true and ful relation of the officers and Armies forcible seising of divers eminent Members of the Commons House, Decemb. 6. & 7. 1648. As also, a true copy of a letter / lately written by an agent for the Army in Paris, dated 28 of Novemb. 1648, to a Member of the said House, a great creature and patriot of the Army; clearly discovering, that their late remonstrance and proceedings do drive on and promote the Jesuits and Papists designes, to the subversion of religion, Parliament, monarchy, and the fundamental laws and government of the kingdom. 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?":

people, kings, men, power, time, man, king, things, part, others, reason, t, thing, nothing, subjects, way, hath, one, times, doth, example, person, text, self, place, p., end, years, 〈, cause, l., fee, words, death, world, right, none, laws, hand, day, nature, life, name, blood, tho, word, government, matter, force, order

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, was, are, have, were, had, being, do, made, did, make, been, say, said, having, take, has, let, give, see, done, think, know, set, come, put, taken, hath, according, found, find, given, came, called, sent, makes, thought, call, brought, tell, am, tells, used, hold, consider, making, use, left, prove

Proper Nouns

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

king, 〉, ◊, 〈, god, law, prince, parliament, england, government, lord, laws, princes, power, c., monarchy, men, hath, crown, council, rome, france, authority, church, state, war, kingdom, house, english, lords, commons, people, spain, court, kings, henry, father, pope, royal, army, m., tcp, son, justice, ●, common, sir, de, mr., est

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, their, they, he, them, i, him, we, our, you, us, himself, themselves, her, my, your, me, its, she, thy, thee, one, theirs, ours, mine, ''em, ''s, l, whereof, ye, yee, us''d, em, ♓, whosoever, whenthey, undermin''d, tollit, march''d, 〈, ♂, ●, †, yt, yours, wh, vvhat, ut, ustheir

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, great, own, many, good, same, first, more, much, very, common, most, true, last, little, best, whole, old, several, new, present, better, wise, second, late, certain, greatest, roman, particular, non, greater, least, necessary, few, -, next, private, former, right, sure, dangerous, ancient, like, subject, third, free, less, long, general

not, so, then, as, only, also, now, well, more, most, therefore, too, up, never, even, very, much, yet, ever, first, out, here, rather, thus, far, still, there, long, indeed, away, down, again, just, always, onely, else, in, thereof, together, no, all, soon, before, otherwise, over, once, off, likewise, ther, thereby

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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