Distant Reader - subject-royalists-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 28 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 123,201 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 4,400 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 88. 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, text, shall, may, will, now, king, one, church, power, us, lord, parliament, yet, time, made, like, kings, great, make, early, also, men, first, must, england, good, well, london, peace, even, much, many, persons, things, without, english, right, might, therefore, subjects, people, man, law, end, authority, doth, every, way, christ

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are The true cavalier examined by his principles and found not guilty of schism or sedition, The several speeches of Duke Hamilton Earl of Cambridg, Henry Earl of Holland, and Arthur Lord Capel, upon the scaffold immediately before their execution, on Friday the 9. of March. Also the several exhortations, and conferences with them, upon the scaffold, by Dr Sibbald, Mr Bolton, & Mr Hodges. Published by special authority., and A vindication of Psalme 105.15. (touch not mine anointed, and doe my prophets no harme) from some false glosses lately obtruded on it by Royalists Proving, that this divine inhibition was given to kings, not subjects; to restraine them from injuring and oppressing Gods servants, and their subjects; who are Gods anoynted, as well as kings: and that it is more unlawfull for kings to plunder and make war upon their subjects, by way of offence, then for subjects to take up armes against kings in such cases by way of defence. With a briefe exhortation to peace and unity..

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

english books, early english, books online, early works, textual changes, page images, defects per, lord protector, text creation, creation partnership, late lines, xml conversion, tiff page, tcp assigned, encoded edition, asking permission, without asking, encoded text, batch review, text transcribed, institutions providing, bit group, images scanned, pfs batch, image set, work described, creative commons, financial support, iv tiff, online text, commercial purposes, providing financial, markup reviewed, proquest page, notre dame, metadata enrichments, enriched version, archaic forms, many walks, stationer meant, enrichments aim, professional end, standard spellings, project evanston, collaborative curation, computationally tractable, digital transcription, linguistically annotated, short title, earlyprint project

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are The true cavalier examined by his principles and found not guilty of schism or sedition Dr. Hewit''s Letter to Dr Wilde on Monday, June 7. 1658 being the day before he suffered death, and read by Dr. Wilde at his funerall., and Mercurius rusticus, or, A countrey messenger informing divers things worthy to be taken notice of, for the furtherance of those proceedings which concerne the publique peace and safety..

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:

parliament, london, lord, king, god, wilde, westminster, kings, early, wales, usurper, towre, thomason, subjects, strange, sir, sibbald, shaglock, scaffold, roman, religion, protector, princes, prince, power, oxford, moses, mercurie, malignant, majesties, laws, law, hind, highness, government, good, gods, gentlemen, gent, fairfax, executioner, esquire, english, earl, dog, dammee, crown, countrey, commons, city

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 Three proclamations by His Excellency the Lord General Fairfax; the first commanding the civil deportment of the souldiery. The second that no souldier shall depart from his quarters without leave. The third that all ill-affected persons, that have engaged for the King, in the first or latter war, and are now residing in or about London, shall depart the said city, and suburbs, and all places ten miles distant from thence, within twenty four hours next after publication hereof. 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?":

text, power, time, men, kings, things, persons, people, subjects, way, man, end, day, place, ▪, person, peace, others, works, party, obedience, hath, authority, words, order, images, thing, self, books, none, life, king, part, name, respect, reason, religion, xml, page, doth, changes, case, work, possession, cause, one, hand, right, places, head

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, have, was, are, were, been, do, had, being, said, made, make, did, come, done, given, take, called, give, set, find, let, according, has, think, say, taken, see, having, sent, am, read, encoded, brought, aim, know, put, hath, concerning, came, bring, found, meant, making, look, go, thought, live, performed

Proper Nouns

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

god, church, king, lord, parliament, england, london, hath, christ, thomason, sir, c., law, tcp, john, ●, english, text, 〉, prince, gods, peace, westminster, city, 〈, protector, ◊, commons, wales, transcribed, moses, thou, earl, book, princes, l., crown, jesus, highness, david, henry, commonwealth, israel, state, authority, act, wing, usurper, master, christian

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, i, their, they, he, them, we, him, our, you, my, us, me, your, themselves, himself, her, thy, she, thee, its, theirs, mine, ours, ye, yours, one, ●, s, ourselves, herself, em, ee, ce

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, great, good, own, same, first, late, true, early, present, more, like, much, english, whole, last, textual, right, due, next, new, several, particular, ready, better, necessary, most, common, available, little, lawful, christian, suitable, private, general, keyboarded, former, financial, easier, commercial, chief, tractable, strange, standardized, standard, seekest, professional, enriched

not, then, so, now, more, also, as, even, well, therefore, here, yet, up, most, only, truly, early, very, much, again, too, never, out, ever, still, there, thus, thereof, onely, down, first, away, all, online, in, before, therein, rather, fully, otherwise, is, together, that, at, just, indeed, above, on, off, long

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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