Summary of your 'study carrel' ============================== This is a summary of your Distant Reader 'study carrel'. The Distant Reader harvested & cached your content into a collection/corpus. It then applied sets of natural language processing and text mining against the collection. The results of this process was reduced to a database file -- a 'study carrel'. The study carrel can then be queried, thus bringing light specific characteristics for your collection. These characteristics can help you summarize the collection as well as enumerate things you might want to investigate more closely. This report is a terse narrative report, and when processing is complete you will be linked to a more complete narrative report. Eric Lease Morgan Number of items in the collection; 'How big is my corpus?' ---------------------------------------------------------- 1 Average length of all items measured in words; "More or less, how big is each item?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 38929 Average readability score of all items (0 = difficult; 100 = easy) ------------------------------------------------------------------ 66 Top 50 statistically significant keywords; "What is my collection about?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 slave 1 maroon 1 Virginia 1 Vesey 1 United 1 Turner 1 Stedman 1 States 1 South 1 September 1 Richmond 1 October 1 New 1 Nat 1 Mr. 1 Jamaica 1 Gabriel 1 Charleston 1 Carolina Top 50 lemmatized nouns; "What is discussed?" --------------------------------------------- 152 slave 150 man 77 negro 76 day 72 time 64 insurrection 58 year 45 maroon 45 city 42 night 40 plot 40 place 39 master 37 plantation 37 arm 36 wood 36 newspaper 35 number 34 house 32 people 32 leader 31 troop 31 rebel 30 trial 30 person 30 court 29 plan 29 life 28 name 27 woman 27 thing 27 nothing 26 white 25 witness 25 terror 25 letter 25 country 24 hand 23 report 23 other 22 slavery 22 month 22 death 22 case 22 alarm 21 force 21 child 21 black 20 water 20 part Top 50 proper nouns; "What are the names of persons or places?" -------------------------------------------------------------- 182 _ 47 Charleston 43 Mr. 41 Nat 37 Virginia 37 Turner 34 States 32 Richmond 30 Gabriel 29 Vesey 27 Stedman 24 United 24 South 23 New 23 Carolina 21 Maroons 20 State 19 St. 19 Sept. 19 Maroon 19 Jamaica 17 Sunday 16 John 16 Gen. 16 County 16 Col 16 . 15 York 15 Surinam 15 Capt 14 Southampton 14 Oct. 14 Gov. 14 English 14 Boston 13 Peter 13 Jerusalem 13 Denmark 12 William 12 Norfolk 12 Government 11 Jack 11 8vo 10 Cudjoe 10 Bennett 9 pp 9 Southern 9 July 9 Holland 9 God Top 50 personal pronouns nouns; "To whom are things referred?" ------------------------------------------------------------- 362 he 297 it 277 they 136 them 116 him 62 himself 60 i 59 we 39 you 35 themselves 23 us 20 me 14 she 8 ''em 7 one 7 her 4 itself 3 theirs 3 ourselves 1 yours 1 ours 1 myself 1 herself 1 allowance,"--we Top 50 lemmatized verbs; "What do things do?" --------------------------------------------- 1560 be 555 have 99 say 81 make 73 do 68 take 59 find 58 come 57 know 51 see 48 give 42 go 39 appear 37 seem 29 follow 29 call 29 bring 28 pass 28 hear 27 name 27 leave 27 keep 26 send 25 write 25 kill 25 begin 25 bear 24 prove 23 show 22 tell 22 meet 21 remain 21 look 21 lie 20 shoot 19 publish 19 obtain 19 join 19 get 19 become 18 print 17 report 16 die 16 declare 15 state 15 put 15 live 15 discover 15 add 14 use Top 50 lemmatized adjectives and adverbs; "How are things described?" --------------------------------------------------------------------- 193 not 96 so 82 more 78 only 73 then 61 other 59 white 54 first 53 many 52 last 51 still 50 very 50 never 46 own 45 great 43 most 42 even 40 such 39 also 34 same 32 whole 32 once 31 up 31 few 30 well 30 thus 30 far 29 much 29 long 29 as 28 now 28 black 27 little 25 however 25 good 24 several 24 finally 23 out 23 colored 23 again 22 yet 22 large 22 down 21 soon 21 official 21 new 21 indeed 20 just 20 high 20 free Top 50 lemmatized superlative adjectives; "How are things described to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10 good 9 most 9 least 6 slight 6 great 5 bad 4 high 3 deep 2 strong 2 rare 2 old 2 near 1 stout 1 remote 1 odd 1 minute 1 manif 1 long 1 late 1 large 1 grand 1 fine 1 cool 1 bright 1 bold 1 Most Top 50 lemmatized superlative adverbs; "How do things do to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 34 most 4 least 2 well Top 50 Internet domains; "What Webbed places are alluded to in this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Top 50 URLs; "What is hyperlinked from this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------- Top 50 email addresses; "Who are you gonna call?" ------------------------------------------------- Top 50 positive assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-noun?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 _ followed up 1 _ have also 1 day brought disasters 1 house was well 1 insurrection had hopelessly 1 insurrection was not 1 leaders had expressly 1 man coming out 1 man named benjamin 1 man named brantley 1 man named denmark 1 man named garrison 1 man named martin 1 man named philip 1 man named rolla 1 maroons had already 1 maroons is easily 1 maroons is even 1 maroons sent ambassadors 1 maroons were all 1 men being absent 1 men came up 1 men came voluntarily 1 men did not 1 men had equal 1 men sent on 1 men were never 1 men were perfect 1 negro named baron 1 negro named colonel 1 negroes did not 1 negroes had as 1 negroes were rather 1 newspapers were soon 1 night is still 1 numbers had not 1 place called bulkley 1 place called duplon 1 place is full 1 plot had just 1 plot was jack 1 plot was voluntarily 1 plot were not 1 slave named devany 1 slave named george 1 slave named john 1 slave named william 1 slaves had once 1 slaves having usually 1 slaves were ready Top 50 negative assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-no|not-noun?" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 negroes had no concern 1 numbers had not materially A rudimentary bibliography -------------------------- id = 8432 author = Higginson, Thomas Wentworth title = Black Rebellion: Five Slave Revolts date = keywords = Carolina; Charleston; Gabriel; Jamaica; Mr.; Nat; New; October; Richmond; September; South; States; Stedman; Turner; United; Vesey; Virginia; maroon; slave summary = mercy, women without modesty, the black man a slave to the white man''s passions, and the white man a slave to his own. had the rumors of insurrection in Brazil among negro and Indian slaves. the following: "The insurrection of the negroes in the Southern States, But wherever there was a black population, slave or emancipated, men''s three months before, a man named Rolla, slave of Gov. Bennett, had As usual with slave-insurrections, the best men and those most trusted did these men obtain the confidence of the slaves; and the whole plot was governing negroes and other slaves." The intendant laid the case before Sullivan''s Island." "In the time of the insurrection, the slaves were named, six slaves met at noon for what is called in the Northern States a armed, with two or three white men as leaders. Such were the terrors that came back from nine other slave States, as the