Distant Reader - subject-ryeHousePlot-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 26 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 429,828 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 16,531 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 89. 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:

mr, lord, king, will, one, time, sir, men, now, told, man, great, duke, thing, may, came, made, might, first, say, design, house, examinant, come, make, shall, never, go, god, must, know, done, majesty, london, persons, take, yet, last, many, england, several, us, well, two, good, went, much, day, treason, give

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are The tryals of Thomas Walcot, William Hone, William Lord Russell, John Rous & William Blagg for high-treason for conspiring the death of the King, and raising a rebellion in this kingdom at the Sessions-House in the Old-Baily, London, on a commission of oyer and terminer held there for the city of London and county of Middlesex, on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, July 12, 13 and 14, 1683., [The tryal of John Hambden for conspiring the death of the king, and raising a rebellion in this kingdom at the Sessions-House in the Old-Bayly, London ... 30th of December, 1685 ...], and Copies of the information and original papers relating to the proof of the horrid conspiracy against the late king, his present Majesty, and the government.

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

lord howard, lord russel, early english, english books, books online, lord shaftsbury, sir john, sir thomas, creation partnership, text creation, page images, aaron smith, high treason, thomas armstrong, colonel romzey, captain walcot, will never, let us, tcp schema, represented either, sir iohn, characters represented, image sets, one mr, several times, sir samuel, protestant religion, mate lee, sir george, lord mayor, next day, colonel sidney, lord gray, royal highness, richard goodenough, sir william, late king, lord russell, every one, ferguson told, late earl, great many, ten thousand, take away, never saw, robert west, take notice, sir geo, william hone, old cause

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are Animadversions upon a paper entituled, The speech of the late Lord Russel, &c. The last speech and carriage of the Lord Russel, upon the scaffold, &c. on Saturday the 21st of July, 1683, and The last speech & behaviour of William, late Lord Russel, upon the scaffold in Lincolns-Inne-Fields, a little before his execution, on Saturday, July 21, 1683 being condemned for high-treason in conspiring the death of the King, and the subversion of the government &c. : together with the paper delivered by him to the sheriffs, and signed with his own hand : also the last speeches, behaviour, and prayers of Capt. Thomas Walcot, John Rouse Gent., & William Hone, joyner, a little before their execution at Tyburn, on Friday the 20th of July, 1683, being condemned for hihg-treason in conspiring &c..

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, lord, king, majesty, duke, mr., men, government, city, treason, russel, party, life, evidence, design, deponent, williams, west, sir, plot, person, monmouth, man, majesties, lordship, jury, iohn, house, goodenough, english, earl, att, york, william, whigs, walcot, tune, town, tory, titus, thump, text, tei, tallow, statute, state, speech, sheriff, september, scotland

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 mr, and To the King''s most excellent Majesty. The humble address of the Society of the Middle-Temple. 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, thing, man, men, t, day, way, nothing, things, arms, evidence, design, others, people, person, king, part, money, self, text, lordship, place, persons, matter, account, life, reason, business, kings, order, name, work, jury, words, hand, texts, body, discourse, times, end, death, rouse, ▪, gentlemen, letter, characters, case, days, meetings, none

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:

was, be, is, had, have, were, did, said, do, been, are, told, being, came, made, say, come, make, go, done, know, has, take, went, give, think, let, says, thought, taken, heard, sent, having, ''s, see, put, tell, brought, am, given, does, found, met, find, speak, believe, set, knew, hear, meet

Proper Nouns

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

mr., lord, king, sir, l., c., duke, examinant, majesty, god, london, house, england, men, plot, howard, ferguson, j., treason, west, tcp, russel, scotland, goodenough, earl, monmouth, government, law, gen., walcot, court, thomas, party, william, john, city, att, majesties, persons, deponent, english, design, colonel, lords, col, ., ch, justice, town, royal

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, i, it, his, they, my, him, you, their, them, we, me, your, our, himself, us, themselves, thy, her, its, ''em, she, thee, ''s, one, l, theirs, em, yours, ye, ours, vvith, mine, au, shou''d, ii, hey, †, zo, us''d, thy''re, s, pox, pelf, ng, hinself, himshelf, himfelf, hers, gather''d

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, great, such, same, own, several, many, more, last, good, first, little, late, true, guilty, next, whole, much, best, present, general, ready, particular, old, early, very, new, most, fit, least, english, honest, better, former, high, long, second, able, plain, full, false, greater, like, available, sure, common, private, few, short, clear

not, so, then, now, very, up, there, never, here, as, only, out, in, most, just, well, again, more, therefore, down, further, ever, on, too, first, also, much, yet, still, off, together, over, before, away, thus, far, once, all, afterwards, long, n''t, soon, saith, always, particularly, often, about, no, even, back

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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