Distant Reader - subject-sick-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 2021-05-25 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 7 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 427,258 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 61,036 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 97. 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, note, bee, shall, man, hee, lord, will, may, death, let, life, haue, vnto, like, soule, heart, great, psal, men, christ, vpon, gods, wee, good, yee, now, come, mee, must, make, yet, sicke, vs, us, see, world, one, time, day, spirit, made, first, grace, vp, many, word, sinne, things, without

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are The last battell of the soule in death diuided into eight cof̃erences ... : whereby are shown the diuerse skirmishes that are between the soule of man on his death-bedde, and the enemies of our saluation : carefullie digested for the comfort of the sicke / by Mr. Zachary Boyd, preacher of Gods word at Glasgow., The balme of Gilead prepared for the sicke The whole is diuided into three partes: 1. The sicke mans sore. 2. The sicke mans salue. 3. The sicke mans song. Published by Mr. Zacharie Boyd, preacher of Gods Word, at Glasogw [sic].August., and The rule and exercises of holy dying in which are described the means and instruments of preparing our selves and others respectively, for a blessed death, and the remedies against the evils and temptations proper to the state of sicknesse : together with prayers and acts of vertue to be used by sick and dying persons, or by others standing in their attendance : to which are added rules for the visitation of the sick and offices proper for that ministery..

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

note note, shall bee, sicke man, mine heart, let vs, note psal, may bee, hee shall, hee will, yee shall, haue beene, hee may, shall come, god will, gods word, sick man, note luk, note isa, vnto god, roman non, bee able, yee haue, shall neuer, note matth, wee haue, will bee, man may, let mee, must bee, wee must, shall see, wee may, god shall, jesus christ, vnto vs, wee shall, note ioh, good lord, lord god, bee made, note gen, shall make, will make, let us, thine owne, may see, within mee, now sir, every man, good things

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are Short instructions for the sick: Especially who by contagion, or otherwise, are deprived of the presence of a faithfull pastor. / By Richard Baxter. The rule and exercises of holy dying in which are described the means and instruments of preparing our selves and others respectively, for a blessed death, and the remedies against the evils and temptations proper to the state of sicknesse : together with prayers and acts of vertue to be used by sick and dying persons, or by others standing in their attendance : to which are added rules for the visitation of the sick and offices proper for that ministery., and A manuall of directions for the visitation of the sicke, with sweete meditations and prayers to be used in time of sicknesse whereunto is added a short confession of the faith, with a forme of thankesgiving, and prayers for morning and evening / by Lancelot Andrevves ....

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, psal, gods, father, christ, thy, man, death, thou, thee, spirit, soule, sathan, note, life, king, hee, gospel, faith, cor, church, bee, angels, word, thing, text, sunne, soul, sir, sin, sicknesse, sect, sea, scripture, sam, saluation, sacrament, roman, reuel, resurrection, prou, prophet, person, pastour, moone, minister, matth, luk

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 A manual of directions for the sick with many sweet meditations and devotions of the R. Reverend Father in God, Lancelot Andrews, late L. Bishop of Winchester : to which are added praiers for the morning, evening and H. communion / translated out of Greeke ms. of his private devotions by R. D. ... 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, death, note, life, hee, heart, men, world, time, day, things, word, ▪, psal, grace, mee, sinnes, nothing, thy, hath, sins, prayer, sinne, words, sicknesse, thing, eyes, mercy, sin, bee, hand, faith, way, soule, selfe, repentance, earth, face, light, night, dayes, others, flesh, soul, hope, end, pleasures, place, comfort, euer

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, note, was, bee, let, have, were, come, make, said, see, had, made, say, am, did, vnto, do, haue, take, die, know, put, called, neuer, pray, hath, blessed, done, remember, set, concerning, according, thinke, being, seeing, heard, suffer, consider, sent, call, been, heare, vpon, cast, give, came, think

Proper Nouns

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

god, lord, thou, bee, hath, hee, 〉, ◊, christ, 〈, soule, wee, gods, haue, yee, note, pastour, spirit, psal, thee, mee, thy, s., sir, father, ●, vp, mans, heauen, downe, ye, beene, doe, yea, cor, hast, goe, church, thine, owne, matth, luk, iob, mercie, loue, sathan, glorie, iesus, heaven, heere

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?"

his, it, i, my, they, our, their, him, he, thy, we, them, your, you, me, us, thee, her, its, himself, mine, she, vp, themselves, yee, vnto, myself, ye, yourself, yours, ours, hee, one, theirs, vs, gods, elias, worke, thyself, s, ourselves, lord, itself, fye, bloodie, ●, whereof, wh, waine, vvhat

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, such, good, many, sicke, last, little, more, other, most, first, able, sick, wicked, dead, own, true, whole, greatest, best, full, holy, much, mine, greater, same, wise, better, new, haue, long, high, old, glorious, mercie, present, secret, strong, proper, non, least, short, perfect, roman, free, -, righteous, second, gracious, sore

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

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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