Distant Reader - subject-wealth-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 5 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 88,124 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 17,624 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 95. 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:

god, will, man, good, men, may, shall, one, great, much, things, make, rich, like, many, us, never, yet, world, gods, riches, yea, lord, let, nothing, every, little, poor, life, give, without, well, use, take, love, made, first, might, house, thing, now, way, time, text, must, say, better, heart, see, another

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are The prevention of poverty, together with the cure of melancholy, alias discontent. Or The best and surest way to wealth and happiness being subjects very seasonable for these times; wherein all are poor, or not pleased, or both; when they need be neither. / By Rich. Younge, of Roxwel in Essex, florilegus. Imprimatur Joseph Caryl., The right use of an estate briefly directed and urg''d in a sermon lately preacht to a person of quality upon his coming to be of age / by Theophilus Dorrington., and Mercy in the midst of judgment by a gracious discovery of a certain remedy for London''s languishing trade : in a sermon preached before the right honourable, the lord mayor and the citizens of London, on September 12, 1669, at the new repaired chappel at Guild-Hall / by D. Barton ....

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

every man, english books, early english, rich man, gods house, books online, let us, good men, good things, every thing, covetous man, man may, every one, gods blessing, page images, will make, god will, will never, gods worship, creation partnership, text creation, two hundred, wise man, rich men, saith god, will give, god gives, become rich, good thing, towards god, present enjoyments, hundred pound, great deal, god may, may see, good man, nothing else, shall never, promote religion, thousand pounds, will take, old man, many years, make us, right honourable, surest way, man will, represented either, one time, tcp schema

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are The right use of an estate briefly directed and urg''d in a sermon lately preacht to a person of quality upon his coming to be of age / by Theophilus Dorrington. Mercy in the midst of judgment by a gracious discovery of a certain remedy for London''s languishing trade : in a sermon preached before the right honourable, the lord mayor and the citizens of London, on September 12, 1669, at the new repaired chappel at Guild-Hall / by D. Barton ..., and The way to be rich, according to the practice of the great Audley who begun with two hundred pound in the year 1605, and dyed worth four hundred thousand pound this instant November, 1662..

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, good, god, text, man, lord, king, gods, estate, yea, world, vsurer, thing, temple, solomon, saviour, rules, rich, religion, psal, providence, prov, pleasures, master, judgment, house, heart, hath, great, gentleman, early, court, christ, chap, audley

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 god, and Mercy in the midst of judgment by a gracious discovery of a certain remedy for London''s languishing trade : in a sermon preached before the right honourable, the lord mayor and the citizens of London, on September 12, 1669, at the new repaired chappel at Guild-Hall / by D. Barton ... 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?":

man, men, things, riches, nothing, life, thing, way, t, time, heart, world, others, day, money, place, sin, wealth, blessing, death, use, text, self, care, gold, one, mercy, part, love, hath, estate, end, soul, children, case, yea, selves, nature, religion, people, means, reason, pleasure, good, goods, persons, name, condition, none, mind

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, do, had, were, make, let, give, did, take, been, made, being, say, see, does, go, hath, come, said, has, think, live, makes, given, know, put, consider, having, become, use, set, keep, serve, hear, want, gives, eat, love, done, enjoy, called, find, bring, gave, desire, thought

Proper Nouns

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

god, lord, thou, gods, hath, yea, house, heaven, world, ye, tcp, psal, king, prov, c., christ, chap, audley, temple, judgment, 〉, text, solomon, ◊, 〈, mans, city, saviour, cor, john, estate, london, sea, prophet, english, land, job, court, mr., master, lords, law, hast, gen., word, saint, luke, l., gentleman, devil

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?"

he, his, it, they, their, them, him, you, i, your, we, our, himself, us, my, themselves, thy, me, her, thee, she, its, one, theirs, ye, mine, yours, ts, pelf, ours, hers

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?"

good, great, own, other, many, more, rich, such, much, little, poor, covetous, better, best, wise, true, first, same, least, happy, present, old, full, miserable, greater, necessary, greatest, high, few, able, whole, common, saith, most, wicked, publick, outward, early, sure, small, worse, general, dead, very, last, eternal, young, second, right, due

not, so, then, more, never, as, too, up, only, much, most, out, now, well, even, very, ever, therefore, away, thus, yet, rather, together, again, onely, also, in, first, down, here, far, perhaps, all, else, once, soon, indeed, there, just, often, enough, still, secondly, no, usually, off, better, long, commonly, over

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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