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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 8 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 47,199 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 5,899 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 81. 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, men, shall, may, text, books, will, book, parliament, many, mr, truth, say, much, one, make, man, either, non, christian, yet, letter, speak, beacon, tcp, us, words, like, roman, word, world, christ, also, answer, english, selves, well, great, onely, persons, printed, lord, early, act, good, without, yea, first, faith, sence

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are A fresh discovery of the high-Presbyterian spirit. Or The quenching of the second beacon fired. Declaring I. The un-Christian dealings of the authors of a pamphlet, entituled, A second beacon fired, &c. In presenting unto the Lord Protector and Parlament, a falsified passage out of one of Mr John Goodwins books, as containing, either blasphemie, or error, or both. II. The evil of their petition for subjecting the libertie of the press to the arbitrariness and will of a few men. III. The Christian equity, that satisfaction be given to the person so notoriously and publickly wronged. Together with the responsatory epistle of the said beacon firers, to the said Mr Goodwin, fraught with further revilings, falsifications, scurrilous language, &c. insteed of a Christian acknowledgment of their errour. Upon which epistle some animadversions are made, / by John Goodwin, a servant of God in the Gospel of his dear Son. Also two letters written some years since, the one by the said John Goodwin to Mr. J. Caryl; the other, by Mr Caryl in answer hereunto; both relating to the passage above hinted., A Second beacon fired humbly presented to the Lord Protector and the Parliament by the publishers of the first : with their humble petition, that they would do what may be expected from Christian magistrates, in suppressing blasphemous books., and An ordinance of the Lords & Commons assembled in Parliament, against unlicensed or scandalous pamphlets, and for the better regulating of printing. 28 Septembr. 1647. Ordered by the Commons assembled in Parliament, that this ordinance be forthwith printed and published. H: Elsynge, Cler. Parl. D. Com..

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

roman non, early english, english books, books online, jesus christ, holy ghost, second beacon, goodwins animadversion, lord protector, early works, beacon fired, page images, text creation, gods love, creation partnership, just ground, textual changes, autocratorical majesty, privy council, john goodwin, commons assembled, learned men, hold fast, better regulating, online text, pfs batch, text transcribed, bit group, tiff page, providing financial, asking permission, images scanned, financial support, batch review, tcp assigned, commercial purposes, institutions providing, work described, encoded edition, proquest page, iv tiff, xml conversion, image set, markup reviewed, prohibited books, creative commons, without asking, encoded text, john goodwins, must needs

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are At Edinburgh, the twelfth day of December, one thousand six hundred and sixty seven. Whereas, there are many printed copies of a most treasonable and seditious pamphlet, entituled, Naphtali; or, The wrestlings of the Church of Scotland, lately imported, vended and dispersed within this kingdom, ... Act condemning a pamphlet, called, An apologetick relation of suffering ministers. Edinburgh, the eighth day of February, one thousand six hundred and sixty six., and A proclamation for suppressing and preventing seditious and unlicenced books and pamphlets James R..

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:

tcp, parliament, lord, god, scriptures, scotland, roman, press, letter, john, holy, gospel, goodwins, england, commons, city, christian, books, book, beacon, animadversion, act

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 An ordinance of the Lords & Commons assembled in Parliament, against unlicensed or scandalous pamphlets, and for the better regulating of printing. 28 Septembr. 1647. Ordered by the Commons assembled in Parliament, that this ordinance be forthwith printed and published. H: Elsynge, Cler. Parl. D. Com. 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, text, truth, man, books, words, world, selves, persons, sence, time, self, p., others, beacon, word, things, power, letter, scriptures, works, thing, way, reason, person, c, book, work, case, passage, judgement, ▪, page, cause, nothing, scripture, firers, day, manner, ground, writings, answer, part, hand, charge, years, xml, texts, images, terms

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:

be, is, are, have, do, was, said, were, say, been, make, had, speak, being, made, did, take, know, am, think, mean, according, called, found, concerning, see, call, put, given, set, encoded, tell, printed, published, beleeve, give, suppose, seems, please, judge, hath, understand, find, done, prove, hold, written, owned, fired, answer

Proper Nouns

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

god, parliament, mr., tcp, christ, book, lord, c., books, england, hath, london, christian, act, pamphlet, john, 〉, l., jesus, english, r., faith, yea, text, mr, goodwins, blasphemy, holy, gods, scotland, protector, printed, press, gospel, 〈, ◊, majesty, goodwin, commons, letter, doctrine, animadversion, religion, pamphlets, law, ghost, city, presse, edinburgh, doctor

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?"

you, i, your, it, my, they, their, his, them, me, he, we, him, our, us, himself, themselves, mine, its, theirs, yours, her, thy, ye, thee, she

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?"

such, other, many, -, own, same, non, roman, more, good, great, much, least, first, early, christian, second, better, high, able, several, former, english, little, true, blasphemous, last, particular, latter, few, common, worthy, whole, best, most, full, certain, available, textual, satisfactory, like, intelligent, wise, seditious, further, unlicensed, saith, respective, large, greatest

not, so, then, as, more, very, also, most, onely, well, here, therefore, never, much, ever, yet, far, now, up, again, whatsoever, all, otherwise, further, rather, only, too, early, together, thus, really, possibly, at, truly, somewhat, over, online, first, even, indeed, just, in, there, no, properly, particularly, out, fast, especially, before

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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