Distant Reader - subject-prophecies-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 48 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 945,467 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 19,697 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:

shall, god, will, lord, great, one, time, may, now, men, yet, man, come, king, also, us, people, many, things, made, make, church, therefore, first, day, like, good, saith, much, place, even, see, christ, power, earth, say, might, world, must, take, house, holy, way, let, away, came, last, text, though, name

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are A paraphrasticall explication of the twelve minor prophets. Viz. Hoseah. Joel. Amos. Obadiah. Jonah. Micah. Nahum. Habakkuk. Zephaniah. Haggai. Zechariah. Malachi. / By Da. Stokes. D.D., The prophesie of Haggai, interpreted and applyed in sundry sermons by the famous and judicious divine, John Rainolds, D.D. Never before printed, beeing very usefull for these times., and The beloved city, or, The saints reign on earth a thovsand yeares asserted and illustrated from LXV places of Holy Scripture, besides the judgement of holy learned men both at home and abroad, and also reason it selfe : likewise XXXV objections against this truth are here answered / written in Latine by Ioan Henr. Alstedius ... ; faithfully Englished, with some occasionall notes and the judgement herein ... of some of our owne famous divines..

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

roman non, early english, english books, shall come, books online, let us, jesus christ, will make, every one, thousand years, page images, mystery babylon, creation partnership, text creation, god will, lord god, wil make, taken away, shall see, holy ghost, rome papal, may see, shall fall, one another, long time, shall make, new testament, young man, short time, will bring, right hand, take away, every man, shall find, lord jesus, little horn, great city, almighty god, must needs, whole world, characters represented, tcp schema, image sets, bring forth, represented either, ye shall, image set, will come, will take, whole earth

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are Erra Paters prophesy or Frost Faire 1684/3 The prophecy of Gnatus a Brittish prophet: introduced by a preface of Robert Ware, Esq; and set forth with a few notes by the introductor., and To the inhabitants of London, this is, a message, in the name of the Lord..

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, god, lord, king, church, england, world, lady, early, city, christ, temple, tei, spirit, scripture, saints, prophet, english, eleanor, earth, sun, roman, prince, parliament, kings, kingdom, iews, beast, woman, sion, shall, sea, religion, reign, prophesie, priest, power, pope, people, nation, mr., mother, jerusalem, great, gospel, ghost, gentiles, father, devil, charles

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 shall, and Hells destruction. By the Lady Eleanor Douglas 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?":

time, men, man, people, things, day, place, way, power, years, self, name, house, others, words, thing, life, death, hand, part, glory, year, end, word, text, body, nothing, reason, world, earth, work, times, kings, enemies, hath, manner, ▪, fire, night, land, truth, rest, places, woman, light, hands, none, head, son, t

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, was, have, are, were, had, being, did, do, come, made, make, said, been, see, say, take, let, came, called, give, know, brought, go, set, having, done, taken, put, bring, saw, found, sent, according, given, am, concerning, saith, went, cast, heard, hath, seen, speak, thought, fall, appear, wil, find

Proper Nouns

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

〉, ◊, 〈, god, lord, king, church, christ, thou, hath, c., ●, rome, temple, city, heaven, prophet, ye, israel, earth, tcp, lib, chap, world, england, holy, babylon, spirit, gods, kingdom, jesus, english, st., beast, yea, sea, devil, john, prophecy, text, rev., bishop, prince, parliament, de, father, emperour, pope, oracle, prophesie

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?"

he, his, it, they, i, their, them, him, you, her, my, we, our, your, me, she, us, thy, himself, themselves, thee, its, mine, theirs, one, ye, yours, ours, myself, elias, vp, hers, itself, thou, s, herself, ha, yourselves, wil, whereof, ●, yourself, whosoever, u, ourselves, ay, ''s, ö, y, wh

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?"

great, other, such, many, own, good, same, more, first, little, last, roman, true, non, -, much, certain, whole, holy, old, strange, saith, second, former, poor, dead, wicked, new, most, present, long, full, very, young, high, able, greatest, several, greater, best, early, like, divine, least, late, common, short, third, few, better

not, so, then, now, up, also, therefore, more, out, most, even, as, very, yet, away, thus, here, again, there, down, ever, well, onely, forth, never, much, thereof, together, first, off, only, too, in, long, rather, before, all, indeed, far, no, often, on, afterwards, presently, that, over, is, still, sometimes, therein

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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