Distant Reader - subject-visions-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 143,202 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 20,457 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 96. 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:

will, shall, god, shal, lord, even, now, make, man, wil, things, one, men, great, come, may, good, people, spirit, time, power, self, made, therefore, see, evil, also, soul, glory, king, world, yet, dreams, earth, nature, like, first, life, body, spirits, forth, light, give, know, must, love, many, say, christ, angels

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are The pouring fourth of the seventh and last viall upon all flesh and fleshlines, which will be a terror to the men that have great possessions, or, Several visions which hath bin made out to me of what the all of all things is now bringing to pass ... George Foster, or otherwise Jacob Israel., The ascent to the mount of vision where many things were shewn, concerning I. The first resurrection; II. The state of separated souls; III. The patriarchal life; IV. The kingdom of Christ: with an account of the approaching blessed state of this nation., and The bloudy vision of John Farly, interpreted by Arise Evans. With another vision signifying peace and happiness. Both which shew remarkable alterations speedily, to come to pass here in England, also a refutation of a pamphlet, lately published by one Aspinwall: called a Brief discription of the fifth Monarchy. Shewing that the late Parliament was that beast mentioned, Rev. 13. that this representative is the image thereof, and that the fifth Monarchy will shortly be established in the person of Charles Stevvart.

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

wil make, will make, good angels, english books, early english, every one, whole earth, jesus christ, shal come, evil angels, books online, shall now, fellow creatures, late parliament, god will, shal see, little horn, wil bring, page images, creation partnership, text creation, shall see, shall come, wil now, good spirits, early works, one another, every thing, made manifest, may see, take heed, anne wentworth, host wil, every man, shal now, bright appearing, outward senses, lord will, wicked men, beast parliament, rich men, represented either, will now, divine principle, gathered together, will bring, image sets, take away, characters represented, lord general

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are Here is something following of a vision and a few words of prophesie concerning the fall of Babilon, and destruction of her people, this signifies the time at hand, therefore I warn all in the fear of the Lord to turn from the evil of their waies. A vindication of Anne Wentworth tending to the better preparing of all people for her larger testimony, which is making ready for publick view. Published according to the will of God, and direction of charity. By Anne Wentworth. To which is annexed a letter written by an eminent Christian, concerning the said Anne Wentworth, and directed to the several congregations of the Anabaptists, and their respective pastors. As also a song of tryumph by the said Anne Wentworth, a daughter of Sion, newly delivered from the captivity of Babylon, &c., and A treatise of dreams & visions wherein the causes, natures, and uses, of nocturnal representations, and the communications both of good and evil angels, as also departed souls, to mankind. Are theosophically unfolded; that is according to the Word of God, and the harmony of created beings. To which is added, a discourse of the causes, natures, and cure of phrensie, madness or distraction. By Tho. Tryon, student in physick..

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:

lord, god, tcp, spirit, king, life, world, wentworth, visions, temperance, sun, state, soul, sion, shal, senses, scripture, saints, reason, prophet, principle, power, parliament, nature, love, light, kingdom, jerusalem, faith, evil, england, earth, dreams, communications, church, christ, charls, body, beast, anne, angels, adam

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 shall, and The bloudy vision of John Farly, interpreted by Arise Evans. With another vision signifying peace and happiness. Both which shew remarkable alterations speedily, to come to pass here in England, also a refutation of a pamphlet, lately published by one Aspinwall: called a Brief discription of the fifth Monarchy. Shewing that the late Parliament was that beast mentioned, Rev. 13. that this representative is the image thereof, and that the fifth Monarchy will shortly be established in the person of Charles Stevvart 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?":

things, man, men, shal, people, time, self, power, glory, nothing, host, day, place, earth, body, world, light, thing, life, way, reason, nature, enemies, others, rest, name, hand, death, word, truth, work, manner, love, heart, joy, creatures, kings, peace, one, works, sons, part, spirit, text, selves, scripture, times, knowledge, words, saints

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:

be, is, have, are, was, do, make, were, had, come, did, wil, being, made, see, said, shal, give, been, know, say, has, take, bring, appear, according, am, go, came, set, let, done, given, brought, saw, having, become, put, called, does, think, live, arise, pass, keep, destroyed, speak, taken, sent, destroy

Proper Nouns

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

god, lord, spirit, thou, dreams, christ, king, soul, angels, spirits, hath, ye, angel, 〉, nature, kingdom, tcp, parliament, world, ◊, life, heaven, ●, yea, earth, 〈, love, england, body, wil, holy, jesus, beast, state, principle, israel, bin, shal, faith, adam, wisdom, power, evil, souls, jerusalem, sun, vision, hast, dream, father

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?"

i, it, they, you, them, their, my, his, he, me, your, him, we, its, themselves, thy, our, her, himself, thee, us, she, mine, yours, ye, one, wil, myself, ●, ö, tho''they, thier, ours, lock''t, herself, hers, elias

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?"

such, great, good, other, own, many, same, true, first, evil, more, outward, little, new, poor, divine, whole, holy, much, glorious, high, like, old, most, dead, wicked, several, present, full, wonderful, strong, ready, mighty, late, former, eternal, very, certain, free, vain, able, perfect, last, strange, pure, bright, clear, dark, wise, mad

not, so, even, then, now, up, more, therefore, also, forth, out, as, very, only, most, here, away, again, ever, yet, there, in, never, down, thereof, thus, together, well, shal, much, no, far, first, still, off, that, too, is, especially, all, sometimes, thereby, long, longer, indeed, further, before, always, rather, else

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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