Distant Reader - subject-repentance-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 61 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 1,631,836 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 26,751 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 95. 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, will, man, may, shall, us, christ, lord, must, men, yet, one, sin, good, now, repentance, life, things, therefore, great, come, make, faith, heart, first, time, world, wee, many, day, much, made, gods, thing, let, grace, sins, spirit, say, see, vs, though, haue, death, doth, holy, hee, without, word, true

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are Essex doue, presenting the vvorld vvith a fevv of her oliue branches: or, A taste of the workes of that reuerend, faithfull, iudicious, learned, and holy minister of the Word, Mr. Iohn Smith, late preacher of the Word at Clauering in Essex Deliuered in three seuerall treatises, viz. 1 His grounds of religion. 2 An exposition on the Lords Prayer. 3 A treatise of repentance., Eighteen sermons preached in Oxford 1640 of conversion, unto God. Of redemption, & justification, by Christ. By the Right Reverend James Usher, late Arch-bishop of Armagh in Ireland. Published by Jos: Crabb. Will: Ball. Tho: Lye. ministers of the Gospel, who writ them from his mouth, and compared their copies together. With a preface concerning the life of the pious author, by the Reverend Stanly Gower, sometime chaplain to the said bishop., and A word to sinners, and a word to saints The former tending to the awakening the consciences of secure sinners, unto a lively sense and apprehension of the dreadfull condition they are in, so long as they live in their natural and unregenerate estate. The latter tending to the directing and perswading of the godly and regenerate unto several singular duties. As also a word to housholders stirring them up to the good old way of serving God in and with their families, from Joshuah''s resolution, Josh. 24. 15. As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. Set forth especially for the use and benefit of the inhabitants of St. Sepulchres Parish, London by Tho. Gouge, late pastor thereof..

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

god will, jesus christ, holy ghost, early english, english books, let us, every one, books online, must needs, every man, wee must, let vs, wee haue, wee may, man may, will make, page images, holy spirit, creation partnership, text creation, lord god, christ jesus, vnto god, will never, true repentance, christian religion, may bee, two things, take heed, may see, good things, many times, will come, god may, iesus christ, broken heart, one another, eternal life, lord jesus, make us, lord will, take away, wee see, god doth, taken away, represented either, tcp schema, image sets, characters represented, vpon vs

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are The acceptable sacrifice, or, The excellency of a broken heart shewing the nature, signs and proper effects of a contrite spirit / being the last works of that eminent preacher and faithful minister of Jesus Christ, Mr. John Bunyan of Bedford ; with a preface ... by a eminent minister of the Gospel in London. A word of pitty to the prophane and to the unruly rulers in this generation., and Hell''s everlasting flames avoided, and heaven''s eternal felicities injoyed containing the penitent sinner''s sad lamentation for the deplorableness of his impious life ... : also holy preparations to a worthy receiving of the Lord''s Supper ... / by John Hayward, D.D..

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, lord, tcp, christ, spirit, law, man, repentance, gospel, gods, saviour, world, thy, soul, life, church, word, sin, father, thou, psal, christian, son, prophet, nature, holy, gospell, ghost, faith, apostle, thee, sins, scripture, religion, prophets, nation, kingdom, king, grace, devil, sinne, righteousness, reason, men, light, isa, haue, earth, early, duty

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 Paralellogrammation an epistle to the three nations of England, Scotland, and Ireland, whereby their sins being parallel''d with those of Judah and Israel, they are forewarned, and exhorted to a timely repentance, lest they incur the like condempation : to render it the more effectual, some considerable notions are therein expressed touching ceremonies, and things indifferent, the Lords supper, the civil government, the taking of oaths, the mark of the beast, the library of conscience, the great Sabbath, and the two witnesses, with other particulars of concernment interwoven / written by Geo. Wither. 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?":

man, men, sin, things, life, heart, time, day, thing, sins, repentance, faith, death, way, grace, world, sinnes, nothing, people, reason, hath, sinne, self, selves, nature, power, hearts, mercy, others, part, t, soul, thy, word, hee, p., words, hand, glory, work, end, doth, body, place, mind, truth, light, peace, state, will

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, have, was, do, were, had, come, make, made, let, see, say, did, been, being, take, know, said, done, hath, am, consider, think, give, repent, set, put, bring, pray, live, haue, go, bee, find, according, makes, called, given, ''s, taken, has, believe, having, comes, doe, found, brought, cast

Proper Nouns

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

god, christ, thou, 〉, 〈, lord, ◊, hath, wee, gods, spirit, repentance, law, father, heaven, a., c., world, holy, doe, gospel, ye, faith, word, haue, q., jesus, church, saviour, tcp, man, son, hee, bee, grace, yea, christian, hell, ●, hast, psal, life, rom, cor, thee, owne, text, prophet, nature, righteousness

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, he, they, i, we, our, their, them, him, you, us, my, thy, your, me, himself, thee, themselves, her, its, she, one, vp, ye, mine, ours, theirs, vnto, yours, ''s, yt, thou, l, ''em, yee, ay, whosoever, whereof, hee, gods, †, ourselves, non, itself, em, ●, vvith, us''d, trye

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?"

good, such, great, other, many, own, true, more, first, same, much, holy, little, whole, able, wicked, last, new, saith, present, better, second, full, greater, best, least, old, necessary, former, greatest, most, very, dead, sure, free, ready, particular, evil, high, wise, right, eternal, perfect, common, early, natural, few, general, poor, worthy

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

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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