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Eric Lease Morgan Number of items in the collection; 'How big is my corpus?' ---------------------------------------------------------- 2 Average length of all items measured in words; "More or less, how big is each item?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 51776 Average readability score of all items (0 = difficult; 100 = easy) ------------------------------------------------------------------ 73 Top 50 statistically significant keywords; "What is my collection about?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 Thoreau 2 Mr. 2 Hawthorne 2 God 2 Emerson 2 Concord 1 true 1 soul 1 nature 1 music 1 man 1 life 1 great 1 art 1 american 1 Webster 1 Walden 1 Ripley 1 Rev. 1 New 1 Mrs. 1 Miss 1 Massachusetts 1 March 1 Maine 1 John 1 Hosmer 1 Henry 1 Greeley 1 England 1 Dunbar 1 Dr. 1 Channing 1 Boston 1 Beethoven 1 Alcott Top 50 lemmatized nouns; "What is discussed?" --------------------------------------------- 352 man 224 year 207 time 177 life 158 friend 150 day 146 part 119 music 119 house 115 way 108 letter 103 mind 102 something 96 art 94 world 91 soul 89 town 88 thing 79 thought 77 place 77 nature 76 truth 75 manner 71 wood 68 work 68 hand 66 kind 66 family 61 substance 61 beauty 59 word 59 brother 58 death 57 nothing 55 poet 55 book 52 one 52 eye 52 essay 52 character 50 village 50 expression 49 verse 49 law 48 mother 48 father 47 value 46 side 45 power 45 heart Top 50 proper nouns; "What are the names of persons or places?" -------------------------------------------------------------- 565 Thoreau 306 Emerson 305 Concord 279 Mr. 270 _ 118 Dr. 106 Henry 94 New 94 John 88 Alcott 77 Channing 76 Walden 73 God 65 Ripley 63 Boston 56 Webster 55 England 53 Mrs. 52 Hawthorne 47 Greeley 45 Hosmer 38 Nature 36 H. 33 Miss 32 W. 31 March 31 Carlyle 30 May 30 Dunbar 30 Charles 29 Rev. 29 Massachusetts 29 Maine 27 Sophia 26 thou 25 Brown 25 April 24 William 24 Harvard 24 George 22 Margaret 22 Graham 22 Cambridge 22 Barrett 22 B. 22 America 21 Salem 21 Fuller 21 Daniel 20 Beethoven Top 50 personal pronouns nouns; "To whom are things referred?" ------------------------------------------------------------- 1462 he 1036 it 786 i 456 him 394 you 309 we 274 they 191 me 186 them 161 us 93 himself 88 she 34 her 33 itself 31 themselves 20 one 15 myself 13 yours 11 yourself 11 thee 10 herself 9 ourselves 4 ours 3 thyself 3 theirs 2 thoreau:-- 2 mine 1 thy 1 pierpont:-- 1 pelf 1 oneself 1 me--(what 1 land,-- 1 his 1 him,-- 1 forgotten:-- 1 1830):-- 1 ''s Top 50 lemmatized verbs; "What do things do?" --------------------------------------------- 3558 be 1214 have 428 do 318 say 238 make 206 go 205 write 205 see 202 know 192 come 136 find 130 give 122 seem 120 take 116 think 108 live 92 hear 87 call 83 become 79 tell 78 bear 76 get 73 leave 64 let 64 die 63 appear 62 stand 62 feel 61 ask 60 read 60 look 55 use 55 try 55 show 55 bring 53 send 52 follow 50 put 49 keep 48 begin 45 pay 45 hold 44 speak 44 receive 43 pass 43 believe 41 remember 39 meet 39 like 39 lead Top 50 lemmatized adjectives and adverbs; "How are things described?" --------------------------------------------------------------------- 854 not 317 more 283 so 204 great 160 first 153 much 150 then 150 as 147 other 145 well 137 old 137 good 123 many 118 very 115 own 115 even 113 perhaps 112 never 110 only 109 now 103 there 102 too 101 up 101 little 99 same 99 most 96 such 95 out 95 long 93 few 91 last 86 true 86 high 85 always 82 young 80 rather 77 early 74 here 73 less 73 ever 69 still 69 also 66 down 65 far 62 thus 61 often 60 once 59 common 58 spiritual 49 new Top 50 lemmatized superlative adjectives; "How are things described to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 41 good 38 least 34 most 18 great 16 high 10 early 5 old 5 noble 5 fine 5 eld 5 bad 4 young 4 small 4 near 4 big 3 strong 3 slight 3 pure 3 late 3 deep 3 Most 2 true 2 thick 2 rich 2 manif 2 few 2 fair 2 faint 2 dear 2 choice 1 weak 1 sublime 1 stupid 1 smooth 1 sincere 1 simple 1 short 1 sentences:-- 1 sane 1 quick 1 practice,--while 1 poor 1 plain 1 mean 1 manly 1 low 1 lofty 1 keen 1 human 1 hard Top 50 lemmatized superlative adverbs; "How do things do to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 65 most 10 well 1 purest 1 deepest 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?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4 _ is _ 4 thoreau was not 2 _ thought _ 2 art is not 2 thoreau came in 2 thoreau is more 1 * go thou 1 _ are _ 1 _ known _ 1 alcott is fond 1 alcott were cambridge 1 art becomes first 1 art does n''t 1 art has nothing 1 art is less 1 art was true 1 concord had kinsmen 1 concord have really 1 concord is evidence 1 concord is famous 1 concord is henry 1 concord is just 1 concord were daily 1 day goes by 1 emerson had generations 1 emerson had thoreau 1 emerson has much 1 emerson is definite 1 emerson is greater 1 emerson is more 1 emerson is not 1 emerson is primarily 1 emerson thought so 1 emerson was not 1 emerson went abroad 1 emerson went on 1 emerson were literally 1 emerson wrote thus 1 friend is dead 1 friends was most 1 friends were many 1 henry is very 1 henry taking part 1 henry was never 1 henry were not 1 house is somewhat 1 house stood apart 1 letter has probably 1 life feels averse 1 life gave force Top 50 negative assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-no|not-noun?" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 art is not life 1 art is not vital 1 emerson has no vital 1 henry were not men 1 man does not wantonly 1 man has no separate 1 man is not always 1 music is no music 1 part is not yet 1 thoreau being not quite 1 thoreau was not only 1 thoreau was not quite 1 world has not yet A rudimentary bibliography -------------------------- id = 3673 author = Ives, Charles title = Essays Before a Sonata date = keywords = Beethoven; Concord; Emerson; God; Hawthorne; Mr.; Thoreau; american; art; great; life; man; music; nature; soul; true summary = Emerson, Hawthorne, Thoreau and the Alcotts play in forming its the composer sets up as "moral goodness" may sound like "high of a higher life though a definite beauty in Nature"--or something that divine." Whatever means one would use to personalize Emerson''s natural living, to the greater truths of life gave force to his influence over prove the existence of God. Emerson seems to use the great definite interests of humanity to Like all courageous souls, the higher Emerson soars, the more lowly he strength and beauty of innate goodness in man, in Nature and in God, mean that through Nature''s influence man is brought to a deeper doctrine of "innate goodness" in human nature--a reflection of the like like to think suggests Thoreau''s submission to nature may, to another, it more and more possible for men to separate, in an art-work, moral up this idea, "The universal need for expression in art lies in man''s id = 51426 author = Sanborn, F. B. (Franklin Benjamin) title = Henry D. Thoreau date = keywords = Alcott; Boston; Channing; Concord; Dr.; Dunbar; Emerson; England; God; Greeley; Hawthorne; Henry; Hosmer; John; Maine; March; Massachusetts; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; New; Rev.; Ripley; Thoreau; Walden; Webster summary = Emerson read a few unpublished notes on Thoreau, made years before, I ''Miss Elizabeth Thoreau, Concord, near Boston,'' and dated In 1857, when Mrs. Thoreau was seventy years old, and Miss Emerson eighty-four, the Concord, to which John Thoreau had removed for three years, in the Mr. Bulkeley, from whom Mr. Emerson and many of the other Concord citizens of Thoreau''s day were Emerson, visiting his friends in Concord, wrote thus of what he saw It originated in this way: A lady connected with Mr. Emerson''s family was visiting at Mrs. Thoreau''s while Henry was in Concord, and a close friend of the Thoreaus, who at one time lived February, 1843, Mr. Emerson, writing to Henry Thoreau from New York, years after Thoreau''s death, when writing to another friend, this In a letter to his sister Sophia, July 21, 1843, written from Mr. William Emerson''s house at Staten Island, Thoreau says:--