Distant Reader - subject-peace-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 18 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 167,862 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 9,325 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:

peace, god, one, will, us, may, shall, men, truth, church, now, good, love, let, text, first, christ, man, king, great, must, yet, non, much, make, ex, many, anno, things, lord, every, another, like, roman, therefore, religion, say, tcp, made, without, time, well, way, english, rot, either, two, see, world, doth

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are The great treaty of peace: or, A serious exhortation upon a sad occasion to double diligence about making peace with God Part whereof was preached at the funeral of Mrs. Anne Kyrl, April 6. 1677. To which is added, the character of that worthy gentlewoman. By H. S. minister of the Gospel., Eirenopolis: = the citie of peace Surueyed and commended to all Christians. By Tho. Adams., and The love of truth and peace a sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons, assembled in Parliament, Novemb. 29, 1640 / by Iohn Gauden ....

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

roman non, let us, english books, early english, books online, one another, page images, creation partnership, text creation, every one, jesus christ, french king, among us, early works, ex comput, let vs, reconciled estate, live peaceably, ex rot, characters represented, represented either, image sets, tcp schema, online text, image set, good men, bit group, proquest page, without asking, markup reviewed, financial support, tcp assigned, encoded edition, text transcribed, iv tiff, asking permission, tiff page, work described, pfs batch, commercial purposes, images scanned, xml conversion, creative commons, batch review, amongst us, providing financial, encoded text, institutions providing, sermon preached, one towards

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are Mr. Hampdens speech, occasioned upon the Londoners petition for peace. The way to peace and happiness whereunto are annexed some useful sayings in verse and prose., and A peace-offering in the Temple; or, A seasonable plea for unity among dissenting brethren: in a sermon at St. Paul''s Church, London, before the Right Honouable the Lord Mayor, &c. on the 14th of October, 1660. By Richard Henchman, Rectour of St. James-Garlick-Hyth..

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, tcp, peace, church, lord, king, roman, religion, christ, truth, state, non, man, early, brethren, william, wee, warre, thy, thou, thing, thee, text, sunne, subjects, spirit, souldiers, son, saviour, rot, ridley, reputation, reign, providence, protestants, protector, power, parliament, oxford, men, love, london, live, like, law, kingdome, john, henry, hee, haue

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 peace, and By the Protector. A declaration of His Highnes with the advice of the Council, in order to the securing the peace of this Commonwealth. 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?":

peace, men, truth, man, things, text, love, way, time, selves, others, thing, religion, day, words, life, people, nothing, end, reason, part, one, heart, place, hand, enemies, work, hath, works, times, world, power, m., doth, unity, self, kings, texts, books, images, body, mind, estate, yeares, xml, matters, good, war, characters, subjects

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, was, have, were, do, let, had, make, did, made, say, been, being, see, come, take, said, give, know, love, done, set, has, according, live, am, hath, found, encoded, put, think, called, having, bring, reconciled, sent, go, given, bee, took, pray, brought, left, making, believe, agree, use, stand

Proper Nouns

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

god, peace, christ, church, king, ex, lord, thou, tcp, anno, rot, hath, l., england, henry, france, text, truth, law, wee, father, english, c., john, de, e., b, spirit, d, st., ye, gods, c, christians, 〉, edward, london, warre, h., son, doe, 〈, man, paul, ◊, state, parliament, holy, oxford, men

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, our, we, he, their, they, i, them, you, us, him, her, your, my, thy, me, himself, she, themselves, thee, its, ours, one, mine, yours, ye, theirs, vp, thou, ii, ha, thyself, singulae, ourselves, em, e, b, ''em

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, non, first, roman, -, same, more, much, true, second, early, little, best, possible, english, last, whole, most, least, necessary, former, new, third, better, like, holy, wise, greater, french, common, full, available, late, ill, several, saith, happy, ready, present, greatest, few, strong, rich, poor, able

not, so, then, now, more, therefore, up, as, thus, out, well, much, most, very, here, yet, too, together, first, ever, never, still, only, also, once, onely, again, even, rather, there, long, in, down, indeed, all, away, far, sometimes, over, secondly, often, peaceably, online, on, especially, vs, that, just, is, early

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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