Summary of your 'study carrel' ============================== This is a summary of your Distant Reader 'study carrel'. The Distant Reader harvested & cached your content into a collection/corpus. It then applied sets of natural language processing and text mining against the collection. The results of this process was reduced to a database file -- a 'study carrel'. The study carrel can then be queried, thus bringing light specific characteristics for your collection. These characteristics can help you summarize the collection as well as enumerate things you might want to investigate more closely. This report is a terse narrative report, and when processing is complete you will be linked to a more complete narrative report. Eric Lease Morgan Number of items in the collection; 'How big is my corpus?' ---------------------------------------------------------- 2 Average length of all items measured in words; "More or less, how big is each item?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 88926 Average readability score of all items (0 = difficult; 100 = easy) ------------------------------------------------------------------ 69 Top 50 statistically significant keywords; "What is my collection about?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 roman 1 order 1 monk 1 life 1 history 1 english 1 christian 1 VIII 1 St. 1 Rome 1 Reformation 1 Paul 1 Monasticism 1 John 1 Jesus 1 Jesuits 1 Jerome 1 Henry 1 God 1 Francis 1 Europe 1 England 1 Egypt 1 Dominic 1 Church 1 Christianity 1 Britain 1 Benedictine 1 Benedict 1 Augustine 1 Anthony 1 A.D. Top 50 lemmatized nouns; "What is discussed?" --------------------------------------------- 502 monk 282 life 268 man 201 monastery 189 order 159 time 157 church 149 year 145 world 132 monasticism 120 history 112 rule 110 day 103 king 96 society 95 character 91 self 90 century 84 power 82 ideal 75 fact 72 spirit 72 influence 71 love 71 age 69 work 69 institution 69 body 68 soul 67 people 66 hermit 62 saint 61 abbot 58 woman 57 way 56 religion 56 house 55 word 55 service 55 mind 54 effect 54 cause 53 poverty 53 nature 51 labor 50 story 50 obedience 50 hand 49 vow 49 thing Top 50 proper nouns; "What are the names of persons or places?" -------------------------------------------------------------- 342 _ 158 Rome 128 St. 125 God 108 England 103 Francis 87 Henry 86 Jerome 69 Christianity 67 Benedict 64 Church 62 Jesuits 61 Christ 53 Europe 52 Dominic 49 Jesus 47 See 36 Paul 35 John 33 Egypt 33 Anthony 32 Monasticism 32 Augustine 32 . 30 Reformation 30 Loyola 30 Benedictine 29 heaven 29 Cromwell 28 Christians 28 Britain 27 VIII 27 Roman 27 Gregory 26 France 24 Lord 24 Christian 24 A.D. 23 Knights 22 Dominicans 21 Saint 21 Pope 21 East 21 Catholic 21 Bernard 20 solitude 20 Paula 20 Parliament 20 King 19 Jesuit Top 50 personal pronouns nouns; "To whom are things referred?" ------------------------------------------------------------- 731 he 643 it 385 they 194 him 159 we 158 i 150 them 93 she 73 himself 63 you 49 us 43 me 39 themselves 31 itself 27 one 27 her 12 myself 12 herself 10 thee 2 yourself 2 theirs 2 ourselves 1 yourselves 1 mine 1 his Top 50 lemmatized verbs; "What do things do?" --------------------------------------------- 3031 be 653 have 274 say 165 do 132 make 116 become 111 see 111 give 90 come 84 take 71 find 68 hold 66 live 66 follow 56 go 55 know 51 seem 50 call 48 pass 48 bear 47 show 45 seek 45 leave 45 appear 44 carry 41 die 41 begin 40 keep 39 believe 38 think 38 enter 37 describe 36 fall 35 write 35 lead 35 lay 34 stand 33 visit 33 love 32 remain 32 establish 31 receive 30 use 30 meet 30 found 29 turn 29 preach 29 lie 29 grow 29 declare Top 50 lemmatized adjectives and adverbs; "How are things described?" --------------------------------------------------------------------- 430 not 242 monastic 190 many 168 so 127 other 124 more 120 religious 118 great 102 true 91 such 91 even 90 only 76 most 75 christian 73 well 71 now 71 high 70 first 70 also 68 early 67 out 67 human 65 then 65 roman 65 as 64 spiritual 63 up 63 new 63 much 60 own 57 poor 55 old 54 thus 54 moral 53 good 52 long 51 too 50 still 50 social 49 modern 48 on 48 ascetic 47 noble 46 few 45 various 45 same 44 secular 44 never 43 rich 43 far Top 50 lemmatized superlative adjectives; "How are things described to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 23 high 17 good 16 great 10 least 7 strong 6 most 5 bad 4 pure 4 low 3 wild 3 rich 3 old 3 mean 3 lofty 3 large 3 fierce 3 early 2 true 2 slight 2 plain 2 noble 2 mighty 2 fine 2 fair 1 worship 1 warm 1 vile 1 sure 1 supreme 1 sublime 1 strange 1 stern 1 rude 1 near 1 minute 1 mere 1 manif 1 kind 1 gross 1 free 1 firm 1 farth 1 faint 1 dull 1 deep 1 dark 1 calm 1 brave 1 black 1 base Top 50 lemmatized superlative adverbs; "How do things do to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 70 most 3 well 3 least 1 greatest Top 50 Internet domains; "What Webbed places are alluded to in this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Top 50 URLs; "What is hyperlinked from this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------- Top 50 email addresses; "Who are you gonna call?" ------------------------------------------------- Top 50 positive assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-noun?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 29 _ see _ 3 monks did not 2 church was not 2 monasteries were more 2 world was nigh 1 centuries are also 1 century are as 1 century is nobler 1 character is clearly 1 character was pure 1 church had enough 1 church is notoriously 1 church seemed unequal 1 church was already 1 church were comparatively 1 churches were dedicated 1 day are thoroughly 1 days is so 1 england become catholic 1 england has never 1 england was no 1 england was st. 1 francis does not 1 francis had secretly 1 francis was anything 1 francis was miraculously 1 god is impossible 1 god is supreme 1 god made society 1 god was fundamental 1 god was only 1 henry was far 1 henry was ignorant 1 henry was shrewd 1 history are due 1 history does not 1 history is almost 1 history is not 1 history is often 1 history was essential 1 ideal gave up 1 ideals were so 1 jerome is not 1 jerome was always 1 jerome was practically 1 king becomes despotic 1 king was not 1 king was really 1 life are hardly 1 life has already Top 50 negative assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-no|not-noun?" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 church was not completely 1 england was no more 1 jerome is not only 1 man has no authority 1 monasteries were not common 1 monasticism was not dead 1 monk is not dead 1 order was no better 1 orders had not only 1 rome had no monitor 1 times are not all 1 times were not yet 1 world is not yet 1 years were no chimerical A rudimentary bibliography -------------------------- id = 13206 author = Wishart, Alfred Wesley title = A Short History of Monks and Monasteries date = keywords = A.D.; Anthony; Augustine; Benedict; Benedictine; Britain; Christianity; Church; Dominic; Egypt; England; Europe; Francis; God; Henry; Jerome; Jesuits; Jesus; John; Monasticism; Paul; Reformation; Rome; St.; VIII; christian; english; history; life; monk; order; roman summary = He lived between the years 390 and 459 A.D. He was a shepherd''s son, but at an early age entered a monastery. Much more might be said of monastic life in Rome, were it not now Benedict of Nursia, there were monks and monasteries in Great Britain. a man who infused new life into the monastic body. his holy office, he sought to reform the church in its spirit and life. belief between the early British monks and the Pope of Rome; that St. Patrick, of Ireland, and St. Columba, of Scotland, were loyal sons of The Christian church set up an ideal of life which it was impossible to It may be true that in the early days of monasticism the monks pursued of these orders commenced their monastic life in monasteries, and were of the monastic ideal, but there were individual monks whose views of