Distant Reader - subject-nobility-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 17 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 1,260,279 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 74,134 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 91. 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, great, lord, earle, sir, first, esq, hee, men, made, also, time, england, now, may, john, kings, man, yet, william, good, many, douglas, shall, will, henry, de, much, two, called, castle, place, name, english, without, part, thomas, james, thereof, make, might, scotland, law, well, robert, edward, county, house, bee

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are A general history of Scotland together with a particular history of the Houses of Douglas and Angus / written by Master David Hume of Godscroft., The history of the houses of Douglas and Angus written by Master David Hume ..., and The present state of England. Part III. and Part IV. containing I. an account of the riches, strength, magnificence, natural production, manufactures of this island, with an exact catalogue of the nobility, and their seats, &c., II. the trade and commerce within it self, and with all countries traded to by the English, as at this day established, and all other matters relating to inland and marine affairs : supplying what is omitted in the two former parts ....

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

king henry, king edward, sir james, sir john, earle douglas, king james, sir william, sir thomas, queen elizabeth, king robert, sir george, lord chief, chief justice, sir robert, eldest son, right honourable, per annum, king charles, lord hume, sir richard, long time, mean time, de la, sir henry, sr iohn, sir iohn, sr thomas, early english, per cent, english books, queen mary, sir edward, noble man, james douglas, robert stuart, let us, every man, king richard, anno dom, robert bruce, master john, may bee, noble men, taken away, pence sterling, william douglas, books online, commonly called, taken prisoner, sir david

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are The loyal addresse of the gentry of Gloucestershire. To the Kings most Excellent Majesty. Die Mercurii 9. Maii, 1660. Upon report this day made to the House from the Committee of Priviledges, it is ordered by the Lords in Parliament assembled, that according to the ancient and undoubted rights of peeridge, no Lord of Parliament, or peer of this realm be or shall be charged, or set at any arms whatsoever, ..., and Honor rediviuus [sic] or An analysis of honor and armory. by Matt: Carter Esq..

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:

england, lord, king, edward, parliament, henry, english, prince, earle, church, castle, william, law, esq, earl, court, sir, scots, queen, north, nobility, london, kingdome, kingdom, john, ireland, duke, county, countrey, west, thomas, tcp, scotland, robert, richard, reign, nobilitie, lady, knight, governour, god, george, france, crown, city, chancellour, bishops, bishop, baron, army

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 help to English history containing a succession of all the kings of England, the English Saxons, and the Britans : the kings and princes of Wales, the kings and lords of Man, the Isle of Wight : as also of all the dukes, marquesses, earls, and bishops thereof : with the description of the places from whence they had their titles : continued with a supplement, and enlarged with the names and ranks of the viscounts and barons to the year 1652. 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?":

men, time, man, kings, place, part, name, hee, others, order, day, way, brother, things, sonne, death, house, yeare, year, daughter, people, times, rest, reason, king, son, title, power, life, thing, honour, hath, parts, person, friends, enemies, side, years, nothing, number, cause, pound, none, occasion, peace, hand, viz, hands, lands, father

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:

was, is, be, were, had, have, being, are, did, said, made, been, called, having, do, make, come, taken, came, done, take, say, descended, sent, set, brought, given, see, found, according, thought, put, went, bee, give, gave, let, hath, kept, died, seeing, used, married, received, go, slain, wherefore, returned, know, accounted

Proper Nouns

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

king, lord, earle, sir, esq, england, john, william, douglas, henry, castle, james, thomas, scotland, english, l., robert, edward, de, county, earl, knight, 〉, angus, countrey, ◊, hee, parliament, iohn, law, court, 〈, hath, queen, duke, sr, bishop, ●, reign, richard, george, knights, e., france, prince, church, lords, c., baron, london

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, he, they, their, him, them, i, we, her, our, you, himself, my, themselves, she, your, me, its, us, thy, thee, theirs, one, ours, vnto, yours, vp, mine, ''em, hers, whereof, ye, ian, hee, yee, whosoever, thēselues, there, himfelf, hic, anxietas, 〈, †, ut, us''d, s, myself, itself, interr''d

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, great, such, many, first, good, same, more, noble, own, much, last, most, second, little, true, whole, third, common, late, old, next, honourable, ancient, small, present, worthy, several, long, like, greater, able, high, new, former, few, eldest, particular, better, large, rich, chief, best, fourth, certain, famous, right, full, least, free

not, so, then, also, now, very, more, most, thereof, there, as, well, thus, onely, first, out, here, yet, ever, much, up, therefore, only, never, before, together, even, long, rather, likewise, in, too, again, indeed, away, still, especially, down, forth, afterwards, off, sometimes, over, about, almost, all, home, commonly, once, otherwise

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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