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.
There are 20 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 1,276,744 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 63,837 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.
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 93. 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.
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, may, day, us, will, man, one, must, men, first, things, yet, good, shall, therefore, law, lord, gods, thing, also, saith, much, though, christ, now, sin, others, time, sabbath, command, make, without, love, worship, made, many, come, doth, name, holy, called, way, another, onely, say, either, great, like, two, well
Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are The pattern of catechistical doctrine at large, or, A learned and pious exposition of the Ten Commandments with an introduction, containing the use and benefit of catechizing, the generall grounds of religion, and the truth of Christian religion in particular, proved against atheists, pagans, Jews, and Turks / by the Right Reverend Father in God Lancelot Andrews ... ; perfected according to the authors own copy and thereby purged from many thousands of errours, defects, and corruptions, which were in a rude imperfect draught formerly published, as appears in the preface to the reader., The law unsealed: or, A practical exposition of the Ten Commandments With a resolution of several momentous questions and cases of conscience. By the learned, laborious, faithful servant of Jesus Christ, Mr. James Durham, late minister of the Gospel at Glasgow., and A practical exposition of the X. Commandements with a resolution of several momentous questions and cases of conscience..
The most frequent two-word phrases (bigrams) include:
lords day, seventh day, first day, one day, holy ghost, let us, man may, every man, sabbath day, every one, jesus christ, tells us, god will, saint paul, set apart, gods name, six dayes, two things, true god, wise man, may see, second table, gods service, new testament, augustine saith, must needs, fourth commandement, early english, english books, saint augustine, gods worship, every thing, good name, men may, one another, made use, apostle saith, publick worship, books online, gods glory, lords supper, another place, ten commandments, ye shall, christs resurrection, make use, two wayes, apostle speaks, will make, good things
And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are A brief explication of the Ten Commandments; intended for a help to the understandings and memories of children. / By John Chishull. The Parliaments X. commandements., and The cities X commandements, commanded to be read in all churches, by Mr L. Warner and the Common Councell..
While often deemed superficial or sophomoric, rudimentary frequencies and their associated "word clouds" can be quite insightful:
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, law, tcp, church, christ, sabbath, gods, scripture, father, commandment, word, testament, spirit, son, saviour, jews, images, holy, grace, covenant, cor, table, psal, matth, man, love, laws, gospel, duties, devil, commandement, command, christian, apostle, act, world, truth, thy, thing, soul, sin, sacraments, rom, religion, prov, precept, prayer, paul, ordinances
And now word clouds really begin to shine:
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 Toward the vindication of the second commandment by Edm. Gurnay ... 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:
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?":
day, man, men, things, thing, others, time, sin, way, name, part, end, life, reason, heart, duties, place, worship, respect, selves, love, duty, nature, words, self, people, manner, rest, use, word, power, faith, nothing, hath, ▪, honour, world, dayes, truth, gods, saith, sins, body, works, doth, means, service, none, children, prayer
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, have, was, were, do, being, had, make, made, come, did, called, say, see, take, said, been, give, done, let, given, 〈, know, according, hath, set, keep, put, commanded, taken, concerning, speak, consider, go, forbidden, having, required, love, think, pray, found, call, worship, making, came, kept, ''s, brought
An extraction of proper nouns helps you determine the names of people and places in your study carrel.
〉, ◊, 〈, god, lord, c., christ, law, sabbath, gods, thou, hath, lords, command, church, cor, q., a., s., rom, ye, saint, saviour, gen., ●, yea, father, holy, tim, apostle, paul, mans, christians, prov, christs, prophet, commandment, gospel, john, david, day, sam, est, word, heaven, moses, jews, spirit, matth, mat
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, we, his, he, our, they, them, their, him, us, i, my, thy, me, himself, you, themselves, its, your, her, thee, she, one, theirs, ours, ye, mine, ourselves, vvhat, itself, vp, whereof, yours, s, elias, pe, hers, em, ●, wil, urg''d, u, thyself, p, f, ''s, ''em, †, z, yeu
Below are words cloud of your study carrel's proper & personal pronouns.
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, such, first, good, own, many, great, more, true, same, much, second, seventh, holy, saith, particular, common, little, necessary, false, whole, lawful, last, due, third, former, better, right, guilty, spiritual, outward, least, general, vain, new, special, fourth, like, greater, old, evil, free, moral, natural, very, most, contrary, clear, wicked, able
not, so, then, therefore, more, also, now, as, thus, onely, here, even, most, up, well, yet, only, out, much, first, never, too, ever, very, especially, that, in, together, rather, is, often, there, again, away, still, down, thereof, far, indeed, all, before, thereby, no, forth, otherwise, sometimes, just, hence, further, else
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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