Distant Reader - subject-tangierMorocco-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 6 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 40,908 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 6,818 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 86. 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:

may, great, one, will, place, tanger, english, tcp, men, text, shall, good, king, two, us, time, make, first, many, people, fez, horse, much, eebo, every, war, whereof, without, tangier, made, like, part, yet, moors, within, country, now, tei, day, well, city, man, captain, say, majesty, take, england, peace, world, work

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are A discription of Tangier, the country and people adjoyning with an account of the person and government of Gayland, the present usurper of the kingdome of Fez, and a short narrative of the proceedings of the English in those parts : whereunto is added, the copy of a letter from the King of Fez to the King of England, for assistance against his rebellious subjects, and another from Grayland to His Sacred Majesty Charles the Second : with divers letters and passages worthy of note / translated from the Spanish into English, and published by authority., A discourse touching Tanger in a letter to a person of quality., and A full and true relation, of the fortunate victory gained over the Moors by the garrison of Tangier, upon the 27. of October, 1680..

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

english books, early english, books online, creation partnership, text creation, page images, tcp schema, represented either, characters represented, image sets, will never, every one, charles ii, left hand, colonel sackville, greatest part, dumbartouns regiment, great deal, tcp project, encode one, general aim, texts created, basic encoding, lossless xml, characters will, qa standards, instances per, publisher proquest, user contributors, known extent, two phases, creative commons, ann arbor, cambridge bibliography, critical editions, using tcp, proquest page, web site, encoded edition, textual data, tcp aimed, notably latin, providing financial, produce large, without asking, libraries guidelines, first edition, mainly structural, keying companies, proquest via

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are A full and true relation, of the fortunate victory gained over the Moors by the garrison of Tangier, upon the 27. of October, 1680. A discourse touching Tanger in a letter to a person of quality., and The present danger of Tangier, or, An account of its being attempted by a great army of the Moors by land, and under some apprehensions of the French at sea in a letter from Cadiz dated the 29th of July (old stile) 1679, to a friend in England..

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, place, people, majesty, world, war, trade, town, tanger, souldiers, sea, port, moors, king, horse, governour, fort, fez, excellency, english, country, commerce, city, christians, battalion

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 great, and A full and true relation, of the fortunate victory gained over the Moors by the garrison of Tangier, upon the 27. of October, 1680. 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:

great, hath, king - A discription of Tangier, the country and people adjoyning with an account of the person and government of Gayland, the present usurper of the kingdome of Fez, and a short narrative of the proceedings of the English in those parts : whereunto is added, the copy of a letter from the King of Fez to the King of England, for assistance against his rebellious subjects, and another from Grayland to His Sacred Majesty Charles the Second : with divers letters and passages worthy of note / translated from the Spanish into English, and published by authority.
tanger, text, tcp - A discourse touching Tanger in a letter to a person of quality.
letters, betrayers, barrels - By the King, a proclamation
letters, betrayers, barrels - By the King, a proclamation
letters, betrayers, barrels - By the King, a proclamation

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?":

place, men, time, people, text, part, day, man, texts, years, work, way, characters, hand, works, year, hath, xml, nothing, books, others, order, images, charge, peace, parts, letter, tanger, reason, image, country, ships, self, horse, end, sort, project, page, one, keying, encoding, elements, eebo, edition, data, war, thing, water, title, number

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, was, have, were, had, being, make, do, been, made, did, say, take, having, hath, give, encoded, come, given, sent, go, said, put, called, according, carried, has, found, based, published, commanded, think, sell, done, divided, brought, send, keep, use, took, taken, set, meet, lost, let, kept, created, corrected

Proper Nouns

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

tcp, tanger, king, english, fez, moors, majesty, tangier, england, captain, war, horse, fort, city, text, tei, sea, god, eebo, trade, world, port, gayland, foot, country, town, place, oxford, morocco, mahomet, enemy, commerce, whereof, 〉, government, battalion, ◊, governour, earl, 〈, charles, spain, regiment, proquest, phase, partnership, garrison, creation, coast, major

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?"

they, their, his, it, them, he, our, we, i, you, us, him, your, themselves, my, its, her, me, himself, thy, she, whereof, yours, ours, ●, thee, one

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, other, good, such, many, first, more, little, own, same, early, much, english, most, last, general, second, next, whole, certain, true, several, greatest, available, small, old, new, greater, present, high, better, very, long, large, considerable, possible, illegible, best, able, free, clear, third, strong, ill, few, excellent, subject, short, less, further

so, not, then, very, as, here, up, now, there, most, well, more, also, out, never, in, therefore, much, yet, together, only, off, sometimes, over, once, too, rather, ever, onely, first, far, down, thus, likewise, especially, thereof, even, all, whatsoever, online, usually, on, no, soon, next, hence, already, again, long, indeed

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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