As we have seen, the sentiment results and the lexical dispersion plot only generate more questions about the text (which is a good thing). Of course these computational approaches should inevtibaly lead us back to closely reading the text, but even in that endeavour we can solicit the aid of R by creating a key-word-in-context search. Let’s undertake a key-word-in-context search of Moby-Dick.
setwd("~/Desktop/git-space/hacking-moby-dick/")
library(dplyr)## Warning: package 'dplyr' was built under R version 3.4.2##
## Attaching package: 'dplyr'## The following objects are masked from 'package:stats':
##
## filter, lag## The following objects are masked from 'package:base':
##
## intersect, setdiff, setequal, unioninput.dir <- "texts/" #notice here that I migrated my moby-dick.txt into a sub-directory called "texts" for ease of processing and organization
file.v <- dir(input.dir, "moby-dick.txt")
file.v## [1] "moby-dick.txt"# Function takes a vector of file names and a directory path and
# returns a list in which each item in the list is an ordered
# vector of words from one of the files in the vector of file names
make.file.word.v.l <- function(file.v, input.dir){
text.word.vector.l <- list()
# loop over the files
for(i in 1:length(file.v)){
# read the file in (notice that it is here that we need to know the input # directory
text.v <- scan(paste(input.dir, file.v[i], sep="/"),
what="character", sep="\n") #convert to single string
text.v <- paste(text.v, collapse=" ")
#lowercase and split on non-word characters
text.lower.v <- tolower(text.v)
text.words.v <- strsplit(text.lower.v, "\\W")
text.words.v <- unlist(text.words.v)
#remove the blanks
text.words.v <- text.words.v[which(text.words.v!="")]
#use the index id from the files.v vector as the "name" in the list
text.word.vector.l[[file.v[i]]] <- text.words.v
}
return(text.word.vector.l)
}
# call the function with file.v and input.dir, put into new variable
my.corpus.l <- make.file.word.v.l(file.v, input.dir)
#show the first 100 words of the corpus
my.corpus.l[[1]][1:100]## [1] "etymology" "supplied" "by" "a"
## [5] "late" "consumptive" "usher" "to"
## [9] "a" "grammar" "school" "the"
## [13] "pale" "usher" "threadbare" "in"
## [17] "coat" "heart" "body" "and"
## [21] "brain" "i" "see" "him"
## [25] "now" "he" "was" "ever"
## [29] "dusting" "his" "old" "lexicons"
## [33] "and" "grammars" "with" "a"
## [37] "queer" "handkerchief" "mockingly" "embellished"
## [41] "with" "all" "the" "gay"
## [45] "flags" "of" "all" "the"
## [49] "known" "nations" "of" "the"
## [53] "world" "he" "loved" "to"
## [57] "dust" "his" "old" "grammars"
## [61] "it" "somehow" "mildly" "reminded"
## [65] "him" "of" "his" "mortality"
## [69] "while" "you" "take" "in"
## [73] "hand" "to" "school" "others"
## [77] "and" "to" "teach" "them"
## [81] "by" "what" "name" "a"
## [85] "whale" "fish" "is" "to"
## [89] "be" "called" "in" "our"
## [93] "tongue" "leaving" "out" "through"
## [97] "ignorance" "the" "letter" "h"I have run a complicated for-loop that iterates over the words in the text file, separates them properly, and puts them in a vector (an ordered list). Now we can simply create new vectors that seek out a search term.
#search and find positions of word
great.positions.v <- which(my.corpus.l[[1]][]=="great")
great.positions.v## [1] 504 530 562 616 683 747 847 895 1124 1389
## [11] 1789 1858 1977 2762 4313 5778 5921 6154 6716 7774
## [21] 7816 8064 9756 10667 12920 13822 13927 14548 15100 15469
## [31] 15631 16216 17724 17875 18977 20857 21055 21945 25408 25912
## [41] 26055 27592 28587 28753 28790 29352 31800 36332 36844 36857
## [51] 36924 36952 37091 37353 37557 37665 37910 39496 39824 40101
## [61] 41504 41983 44734 44928 45183 45483 46458 46922 47037 47661
## [71] 48190 48227 48801 49062 49443 51622 52405 52434 52914 52961
## [81] 53105 53211 53260 54624 54665 54925 55245 55634 55831 56089
## [91] 56590 56637 56854 57318 57827 60332 60406 60587 60836 61341
## [101] 61635 61713 62370 63781 64817 65112 65230 65259 66360 67000
## [111] 69764 69815 70493 70951 70982 72406 72582 73195 73522 73710
## [121] 73758 73847 74248 75376 76859 78042 78557 80005 80043 80245
## [131] 82165 82174 82229 82327 82577 85293 89143 89529 89978 91790
## [141] 94754 95653 97877 102793 103208 103621 103910 104487 104640 104827
## [151] 104860 105331 105541 106487 106932 107327 108223 108663 108922 109582
## [161] 110962 113666 114298 116721 116815 117036 118446 118607 118852 118998
## [171] 119748 120046 120209 120218 120419 120654 121036 122227 125001 125860
## [181] 127860 128400 129019 129117 129643 129805 129898 130438 130560 131655
## [191] 131872 131883 132297 132735 132812 132964 133525 133566 133584 134446
## [201] 134553 134711 134738 134837 135837 136325 136347 136355 136739 136769
## [211] 138327 138554 138743 139881 140358 140369 140758 140835 140924 141050
## [221] 141275 142110 142472 143108 143869 144867 145443 145779 146320 147505
## [231] 147991 148084 149529 151448 151886 152520 153825 154047 154483 155026
## [241] 158868 159152 162767 164716 164771 164975 165058 165090 165260 166254
## [251] 166426 166645 168580 168795 169158 169219 169331 169450 169990 170811
## [261] 171155 171244 171309 171488 171539 173365 173590 173750 173773 174041
## [271] 174259 174855 175284 175470 175811 175861 176082 176536 178199 178205
## [281] 178251 180403 181910 184072 185336 187799 191687 191754 195856 196097
## [291] 198882 202673 204044 206400 206725 207679 209278 210414 211092 213108
## [301] 215063 216700 218007 218325 218517 218521This might look intimidating, but this shows you exactly in what position in the list these terms are occuring.
great.context <- great.positions.v
context <- 4
results <- for(i in 1:length(great.context)){
start <- great.context[i]-context
end <- great.context[i]+context
before <- my.corpus.l[[1]][start:(start+context-1)]
after <- my.corpus.l[[1]][(start+context+1) :end]
keyword <- my.corpus.l[[1]][start+context]
cat("----------", i, "----------", "\n")
cat(before,"[",keyword, "]", after, "\n")
}## ---------- 1 ----------
## extracts and god created [ great ] whales genesis leviathan maketh
## ---------- 2 ----------
## lord had prepared a [ great ] fish to swallow up
## ---------- 3 ----------
## with his sore and [ great ] and strong sword shall
## ---------- 4 ----------
## all incontinently that foul [ great ] swallow of his and
## ---------- 5 ----------
## when about sunrise a [ great ] many whales and other
## ---------- 6 ----------
## had bones of very [ great ] value for their teeth
## ---------- 7 ----------
## retires into it in [ great ] security and there sleeps
## ---------- 8 ----------
## stowe s annals the [ great ] leviathan that maketh the
## ---------- 9 ----------
## art is created that [ great ] leviathan called a commonwealth
## ---------- 10 ----------
## to proceed with a [ great ] deal of caution for
## ---------- 11 ----------
## make them speak like [ great ] wales goldsmith to johnson
## ---------- 12 ----------
## they stand in so [ great ] dread of some of
## ---------- 13 ----------
## whale fishery spain a [ great ] whale stranded on the
## ---------- 14 ----------
## is a matter of [ great ] astonishment that the consideration
## ---------- 15 ----------
## be athirst in the [ great ] american desert try this
## ---------- 16 ----------
## overwhelming idea of the [ great ] whale himself such a
## ---------- 17 ----------
## voyage was welcome the [ great ] flood gates of the
## ---------- 18 ----------
## yet nantucket was her [ great ] original the tyre of
## ---------- 19 ----------
## door it seemed the [ great ] black parliament sitting in
## ---------- 20 ----------
## gigantic fish even the [ great ] leviathan himself in fact
## ---------- 21 ----------
## cape horner in a [ great ] hurricane the half foundered
## ---------- 22 ----------
## must have been a [ great ] central chimney with fireplaces
## ---------- 23 ----------
## throwing them into the [ great ] stove in the middle
## ---------- 24 ----------
## balmed new zealand heads [ great ] curios you know and
## ---------- 25 ----------
## handle he puffed out [ great ] clouds of tobacco smoke
## ---------- 26 ----------
## the window and a [ great ] rattling of coaches in
## ---------- 27 ----------
## broad awake feeling a [ great ] deal worse than i
## ---------- 28 ----------
## i was guilty of [ great ] rudeness staring at him
## ---------- 29 ----------
## wrapped up in his [ great ] pilot monkey jacket and
## ---------- 30 ----------
## always though ledyard the [ great ] new england traveller and
## ---------- 31 ----------
## slightest bashfulness had boarded [ great ] whales on the high
## ---------- 32 ----------
## reputation and joins the [ great ] whale fishery you should
## ---------- 33 ----------
## he was a very [ great ] favourite he had been
## ---------- 34 ----------
## melting sleet and his [ great ] pilot cloth jacket seemed
## ---------- 35 ----------
## god had prepared a [ great ] fish to swallow up
## ---------- 36 ----------
## for whose cause this [ great ] tempest was upon them
## ---------- 37 ----------
## for his sake this [ great ] tempest was upon them
## ---------- 38 ----------
## him who as the [ great ] pilot paul has it
## ---------- 39 ----------
## fail to be of [ great ] usefulness to one who
## ---------- 40 ----------
## punchbowl always forms the [ great ] central ornament on the
## ---------- 41 ----------
## glance upwards to the [ great ] giver of all feasts
## ---------- 42 ----------
## launching a navy of [ great ] ships on the sea
## ---------- 43 ----------
## but being in a [ great ] hurry to resume scolding
## ---------- 44 ----------
## we despatched it with [ great ] expedition when leaning back
## ---------- 45 ----------
## the word cod with [ great ] emphasis and resumed my
## ---------- 46 ----------
## many things queequeg placed [ great ] confidence in the excellence
## ---------- 47 ----------
## for all men tragically [ great ] are made so through
## ---------- 48 ----------
## no doubt before a [ great ] while he would follow
## ---------- 49 ----------
## it was after a [ great ] feast given by his
## ---------- 50 ----------
## the gaining of a [ great ] battle wherein fifty of
## ---------- 51 ----------
## the custom when a [ great ] battle had been gained
## ---------- 52 ----------
## they were placed in [ great ] wooden trenchers and garnished
## ---------- 53 ----------
## he thought it a [ great ] pity that such a
## ---------- 54 ----------
## rubbed them with his [ great ] yellow bandana handkerchief and
## ---------- 55 ----------
## of us belong the [ great ] and everlasting first congregation
## ---------- 56 ----------
## step along by the [ great ] anchor what a harpoon
## ---------- 57 ----------
## cabin and to my [ great ] joy queequeg was soon
## ---------- 58 ----------
## if he had a [ great ] secret in him morning
## ---------- 59 ----------
## passed and there was [ great ] activity aboard the pequod
## ---------- 60 ----------
## whalemen for besides the [ great ] length of the whaling
## ---------- 61 ----------
## the king chiefs and [ great ] people generally were in
## ---------- 62 ----------
## of profane words however [ great ] the hurry peleg said
## ---------- 63 ----------
## nantucket that were as [ great ] and greater than your
## ---------- 64 ----------
## in those parts that [ great ] america on the other
## ---------- 65 ----------
## prince than alfred the [ great ] who with his own
## ---------- 66 ----------
## more honourable than that [ great ] captain of antiquity who
## ---------- 67 ----------
## was one of the [ great ] staple outfits of the
## ---------- 68 ----------
## from god himself the [ great ] god absolute the centre
## ---------- 69 ----------
## out in it thou [ great ] democratic god who didst
## ---------- 70 ----------
## to think that the [ great ] leviathans had personally and
## ---------- 71 ----------
## in quest of the [ great ] new england moose had
## ---------- 72 ----------
## the wake of the [ great ] whales of the sea
## ---------- 73 ----------
## sent for to the [ great ] quarter deck on high
## ---------- 74 ----------
## the harpooneers with the [ great ] body of the crew
## ---------- 75 ----------
## lofty trunk of a [ great ] tree when the upper
## ---------- 76 ----------
## the sea and a [ great ] lord of leviathans was
## ---------- 77 ----------
## were kicked by a [ great ] man and with a
## ---------- 78 ----------
## greatest lords think it [ great ] glory to be slapped
## ---------- 79 ----------
## of the whale the [ great ] cuvier and john hunter
## ---------- 80 ----------
## the men small and [ great ] old and new landsmen
## ---------- 81 ----------
## says nothing of the [ great ] sperm whale compared with
## ---------- 82 ----------
## leviathanic allusions in the [ great ] poets of past days
## ---------- 83 ----------
## whale is deposed the [ great ] sperm whale now reigneth
## ---------- 84 ----------
## the black whale the [ great ] whale the true whale
## ---------- 85 ----------
## folios it is the [ great ] mysticetus of the english
## ---------- 86 ----------
## approaching to olive his [ great ] lips present a cable
## ---------- 87 ----------
## whales it is of [ great ] importance to mention that
## ---------- 88 ----------
## harbor he has a [ great ] pack on him like
## ---------- 89 ----------
## then always at too [ great ] a distance to study
## ---------- 90 ----------
## the advance of the [ great ] sperm whale book ii
## ---------- 91 ----------
## days regarded as the [ great ] antidote against poison and
## ---------- 92 ----------
## accounted an object of [ great ] curiosity black letter tells
## ---------- 93 ----------
## he sometimes takes the [ great ] folio whales by the
## ---------- 94 ----------
## will then see the [ great ] sperm whale himself in
## ---------- 95 ----------
## unfinished even as the [ great ] cathedral of cologne was
## ---------- 96 ----------
## to bring on a [ great ] baron of salt junk
## ---------- 97 ----------
## his head into a [ great ] empty wooden trencher while
## ---------- 98 ----------
## for all this the [ great ] negro was wonderfully abstemious
## ---------- 99 ----------
## time though to his [ great ] delight the three salt
## ---------- 100 ----------
## to it as that [ great ] stone mast of theirs
## ---------- 101 ----------
## or louis the devil [ great ] washington too stands high
## ---------- 102 ----------
## be fire but neither [ great ] washington nor napoleon nor
## ---------- 103 ----------
## of it without running [ great ] risk of perishing like
## ---------- 104 ----------
## it was not a [ great ] while after the affair
## ---------- 105 ----------
## nantucket wool after the [ great ] annual sheep shearing aye
## ---------- 106 ----------
## steward go draw the [ great ] measure of grog but
## ---------- 107 ----------
## accountants have computed their [ great ] counting house the globe
## ---------- 108 ----------
## vengeance will fetch a [ great ] premium here he smites
## ---------- 109 ----------
## task what when the [ great ] pope washes the feet
## ---------- 110 ----------
## more than ye ye [ great ] gods ever were i
## ---------- 111 ----------
## which whale after doing [ great ] mischief to his assailants
## ---------- 112 ----------
## not unfrequent instances of [ great ] ferocity cunning and malice
## ---------- 113 ----------
## eminent tremendousness of the [ great ] sperm whale anywhere more
## ---------- 114 ----------
## the surface remain in [ great ] part unaccountable to his
## ---------- 115 ----------
## after sounding to a [ great ] depth he transports himself
## ---------- 116 ----------
## one jot of his [ great ] natural intellect had perished
## ---------- 117 ----------
## a broken throne the [ great ] gods mock that captive
## ---------- 118 ----------
## have seemed the gliding [ great ] demon of the seas
## ---------- 119 ----------
## white charger and the [ great ] austrian empire caesarian heir
## ---------- 120 ----------
## in the greek mythologies [ great ] jove himself being made
## ---------- 121 ----------
## could send to the [ great ] spirit with the annual
## ---------- 122 ----------
## in white before the [ great ] white throne and the
## ---------- 123 ----------
## spell but god s [ great ] unflattering laureate nature i
## ---------- 124 ----------
## either wholly or in [ great ] part stripped of all
## ---------- 125 ----------
## of her hues the [ great ] principle of light for
## ---------- 126 ----------
## migrating whales may with [ great ] confidence be looked for
## ---------- 127 ----------
## commander to make the [ great ] passage southwards double cape
## ---------- 128 ----------
## to know an irascible [ great ] man they make distant
## ---------- 129 ----------
## these famous whales enjoy [ great ] individual celebrity nay you
## ---------- 130 ----------
## at various times creating [ great ] havoc among the boats
## ---------- 131 ----------
## by stating that a [ great ] earthquake somewhere about that
## ---------- 132 ----------
## time did actually do [ great ] mischief along the spanish
## ---------- 133 ----------
## to me of the [ great ] power and malice at
## ---------- 134 ----------
## the whale towing her [ great ] hull through the water
## ---------- 135 ----------
## prefecture at constantinople a [ great ] sea monster was captured
## ---------- 136 ----------
## post sweeping round his [ great ] steering oar lay back
## ---------- 137 ----------
## the pequod and the [ great ] white whale its object
## ---------- 138 ----------
## was famous for his [ great ] heedfulness in the fishery
## ---------- 139 ----------
## whales is always under [ great ] and extraordinary difficulties that
## ---------- 140 ----------
## a conscience and the [ great ] mundane soul were in
## ---------- 141 ----------
## four corners of a [ great ] highway where you meet
## ---------- 142 ----------
## are shored by two [ great ] contrasting nations as the
## ---------- 143 ----------
## holy of holies of [ great ] forests on roman arches
## ---------- 144 ----------
## in substance and its [ great ] items true i know
## ---------- 145 ----------
## look now at a [ great ] christian painter s portrait
## ---------- 146 ----------
## plates the whales like [ great ] rafts of logs are
## ---------- 147 ----------
## count de lacepede a [ great ] naturalist published a scientific
## ---------- 148 ----------
## in fact as the [ great ] hunter says the mere
## ---------- 149 ----------
## needs conclude that the [ great ] leviathan is that one
## ---------- 150 ----------
## published outlines of the [ great ] sperm whale colnett s
## ---------- 151 ----------
## than theirs but by [ great ] odds beale s is
## ---------- 152 ----------
## supper cooking in the [ great ] bowels below sea fowls
## ---------- 153 ----------
## mell through the consecutive [ great ] battles of france where
## ---------- 154 ----------
## of carving is as [ great ] a trophy of human
## ---------- 155 ----------
## fail to trace out [ great ] whales in the starry
## ---------- 156 ----------
## and as in the [ great ] hunting countries of india
## ---------- 157 ----------
## in the distance a [ great ] white mass lazily rose
## ---------- 158 ----------
## sir said flask the [ great ] live squid which they
## ---------- 159 ----------
## to imagine that the [ great ] kraken of bishop pontoppodan
## ---------- 160 ----------
## off with a prodigious [ great ] wedding cake to present
## ---------- 161 ----------
## accustomed cry as the [ great ] fish slowly and regularly
## ---------- 162 ----------
## moved for upon the [ great ] canal of hang ho
## ---------- 163 ----------
## and according to the [ great ] military maxim make the
## ---------- 164 ----------
## whale was esteemed a [ great ] delicacy in france and
## ---------- 165 ----------
## them they had a [ great ] porpoise grant from the
## ---------- 166 ----------
## richness he is the [ great ] prize ox of the
## ---------- 167 ----------
## to this block the [ great ] blubber hook weighing some
## ---------- 168 ----------
## is heard with a [ great ] swash the ship rolls
## ---------- 169 ----------
## of the second alternating [ great ] tackle is then hooked
## ---------- 170 ----------
## if it were a [ great ] live mass of plaited
## ---------- 171 ----------
## his flanks effaced in [ great ] part of the regular
## ---------- 172 ----------
## after explanation that this [ great ] monster to whom corporeal
## ---------- 173 ----------
## the pole like the [ great ] dome of st peter
## ---------- 174 ----------
## s and like the [ great ] whale retain o man
## ---------- 175 ----------
## the joyous breezes that [ great ] mass of death floats
## ---------- 176 ----------
## while in life the [ great ] whale s body may
## ---------- 177 ----------
## it might yet in [ great ] part be buoyed up
## ---------- 178 ----------
## he had been a [ great ] prophet in their cracked
## ---------- 179 ----------
## gasping there with that [ great ] iron hook poor queequeg
## ---------- 180 ----------
## distance they saw a [ great ] heap of tumultuous white
## ---------- 181 ----------
## here now are two [ great ] whales laying their heads
## ---------- 182 ----------
## between them like a [ great ] mountain separating two lakes
## ---------- 183 ----------
## lens of herschel s [ great ] telescope and his ears
## ---------- 184 ----------
## might descend into the [ great ] kentucky mammoth cave of
## ---------- 185 ----------
## come nearer to this [ great ] head it begins to
## ---------- 186 ----------
## case you will take [ great ] interest in thinking how
## ---------- 187 ----------
## oil and more a [ great ] pity now that this
## ---------- 188 ----------
## were inside of the [ great ] haarlem organ and gazing
## ---------- 189 ----------
## s there is no [ great ] well of sperm no
## ---------- 190 ----------
## lais chapter 77 the [ great ] heidelburgh tun now comes
## ---------- 191 ----------
## be regarded as the [ great ] heidelburgh tun of the
## ---------- 192 ----------
## and as that famous [ great ] tierce is mystically carved
## ---------- 193 ----------
## the sperm whale s [ great ] heidelburgh tun is tapped
## ---------- 194 ----------
## handed hold on the [ great ] cabled tackles suspending the
## ---------- 195 ----------
## foremost down into this [ great ] tun of heidelburgh and
## ---------- 196 ----------
## got foul of the [ great ] cutting tackles a sharp
## ---------- 197 ----------
## be and might occasion [ great ] trouble he had thrust
## ---------- 198 ----------
## foremost as for the [ great ] head itself that was
## ---------- 199 ----------
## through the courage and [ great ] skill in obstetrics of
## ---------- 200 ----------
## brow is as that [ great ] golden seal affixed by
## ---------- 201 ----------
## deer but in the [ great ] sperm whale this high
## ---------- 202 ----------
## a speech no his [ great ] genius is declared in
## ---------- 203 ----------
## me that had the [ great ] sperm whale been known
## ---------- 204 ----------
## s high seat the [ great ] sperm whale shall lord
## ---------- 205 ----------
## whale and that the [ great ] monster is indomitable you
## ---------- 206 ----------
## going all abreast with [ great ] speed straight before the
## ---------- 207 ----------
## harness they left a [ great ] wide wake as though
## ---------- 208 ----------
## though continually unrolling a [ great ] wide parchment upon the
## ---------- 209 ----------
## were going with such [ great ] velocity moreover as almost
## ---------- 210 ----------
## lowered but from the [ great ] start he had had
## ---------- 211 ----------
## such thin threads the [ great ] leviathan was suspended like
## ---------- 212 ----------
## next moment relieved in [ great ] part from the downward
## ---------- 213 ----------
## of water at a [ great ] distance below the surface
## ---------- 214 ----------
## sperm whale floats with [ great ] buoyancy with its side
## ---------- 215 ----------
## i impressed with its [ great ] honourableness and antiquity and
## ---------- 216 ----------
## i find so many [ great ] demi gods and heroes
## ---------- 217 ----------
## doing battle with the [ great ] monster of the deep
## ---------- 218 ----------
## horseback yet considering the [ great ] ignorance of those times
## ---------- 219 ----------
## no other than the [ great ] leviathan himself in fact
## ---------- 220 ----------
## a whale like their [ great ] patron let them never
## ---------- 221 ----------
## nothing short of the [ great ] gods themselves that wondrous
## ---------- 222 ----------
## the discovery of that [ great ] headland from bartholomew diaz
## ---------- 223 ----------
## s was foremost by [ great ] exertion tashtego at last
## ---------- 224 ----------
## of ages before the [ great ] whales should have been
## ---------- 225 ----------
## o hunter as the [ great ] necessities that strike the
## ---------- 226 ----------
## by considerations touching the [ great ] inherent dignity and sublimity
## ---------- 227 ----------
## so much to the [ great ] strength of the masonry
## ---------- 228 ----------
## can transcend it five [ great ] motions are peculiar to
## ---------- 229 ----------
## would almost think a [ great ] gun had been discharged
## ---------- 230 ----------
## in time for the [ great ] whaling season there by
## ---------- 231 ----------
## herds sometimes embracing so [ great ] a multitude that it
## ---------- 232 ----------
## miles and forming a [ great ] semicircle embracing one half
## ---------- 233 ----------
## cried one to a [ great ] dromedary that of a
## ---------- 234 ----------
## block ice when the [ great ] river hudson breaks up
## ---------- 235 ----------
## aggregations now though such [ great ] bodies are at times
## ---------- 236 ----------
## and so being a [ great ] traveller he leaves his
## ---------- 237 ----------
## by reason of the [ great ] stress of her plunging
## ---------- 238 ----------
## the matter the two [ great ] principles laid down in
## ---------- 239 ----------
## fish what is the [ great ] globe itself but a
## ---------- 240 ----------
## we have been at [ great ] trouble and peril and
## ---------- 241 ----------
## von slack in his [ great ] work on smells a
## ---------- 242 ----------
## honour to alexander the [ great ] chapter 93 the castaway
## ---------- 243 ----------
## hatch we expose the [ great ] try pots two in
## ---------- 244 ----------
## been related how the [ great ] leviathan is afar off
## ---------- 245 ----------
## beheaded was killed his [ great ] padded surtout becomes the
## ---------- 246 ----------
## is cool then the [ great ] hatchways are unsealed the
## ---------- 247 ----------
## head are profanely piled [ great ] rusty casks lie about
## ---------- 248 ----------
## the entire ship seems [ great ] leviathan himself while on
## ---------- 249 ----------
## and put away the [ great ] hatch is scrubbed and
## ---------- 250 ----------
## world and beneath the [ great ] equator and named after
## ---------- 251 ----------
## his own mysterious self [ great ] pains small gains for
## ---------- 252 ----------
## cheer yet oh the [ great ] sun is no fixture
## ---------- 253 ----------
## open sea for the [ great ] swells now lift the
## ---------- 254 ----------
## two previous and the [ great ] tackles were still aloft
## ---------- 255 ----------
## the sea a bouncing [ great ] whale with a milky
## ---------- 256 ----------
## humoredly well this old [ great ] grandfather with the white
## ---------- 257 ----------
## and what a noble [ great ] whale it was the
## ---------- 258 ----------
## harpoon let this old [ great ] grandfather have it but
## ---------- 259 ----------
## my diet oh a [ great ] watcher and very dietetically
## ---------- 260 ----------
## me there would be [ great ] glory in killing him
## ---------- 261 ----------
## our lord 1775 this [ great ] whaling house was in
## ---------- 262 ----------
## with civilized steel the [ great ] sperm whale and that
## ---------- 263 ----------
## any sort in the [ great ] south sea the voyage
## ---------- 264 ----------
## was thus that the [ great ] japanese whaling ground first
## ---------- 265 ----------
## his cable for the [ great ] south sea of the
## ---------- 266 ----------
## these latter was a [ great ] sperm whale which after
## ---------- 267 ----------
## of the leaves the [ great ] sun seemed a flying
## ---------- 268 ----------
## this din of the [ great ] world s loom thy
## ---------- 269 ----------
## that arsacidean wood the [ great ] white worshipped skeleton lay
## ---------- 270 ----------
## their yard sticks the [ great ] skull echoed and seizing
## ---------- 271 ----------
## so that like a [ great ] chest of drawers you
## ---------- 272 ----------
## the hull of a [ great ] ship new laid upon
## ---------- 273 ----------
## mostly lie like the [ great ] knobbed blocks on a
## ---------- 274 ----------
## lie in him like [ great ] cables and hawsers coiled
## ---------- 275 ----------
## a mighty theme no [ great ] and enduring volume can
## ---------- 276 ----------
## mason and also a [ great ] digger of ditches canals
## ---------- 277 ----------
## disinterred in excavating the [ great ] docks of antwerp in
## ---------- 278 ----------
## an apartment of the [ great ] temple of denderah some
## ---------- 279 ----------
## still survive there in [ great ] numbers much more may
## ---------- 280 ----------
## much more may the [ great ] whale outlast all hunting
## ---------- 281 ----------
## that from the presumed [ great ] longevity of whales their
## ---------- 282 ----------
## that kept him a [ great ] part of the time
## ---------- 283 ----------
## and there s a [ great ] cry for life boats
## ---------- 284 ----------
## queequeg s measure with [ great ] accuracy regularly chalking queequeg
## ---------- 285 ----------
## at last upon the [ great ] south sea were it
## ---------- 286 ----------
## and stretched to a [ great ] tension pressing his foot
## ---------- 287 ----------
## did not escape a [ great ] rolling sea dashing high
## ---------- 288 ----------
## wave has such a [ great ] long start before it
## ---------- 289 ----------
## of us are ahabs [ great ] god forbid but is
## ---------- 290 ----------
## with all the crew [ great ] god where art thou
## ---------- 291 ----------
## were the resort of [ great ] numbers of seals and
## ---------- 292 ----------
## their black seventy fours [ great ] admirals sometimes sit at
## ---------- 293 ----------
## circle commanded at so [ great ] a height when in
## ---------- 294 ----------
## arm but if the [ great ] sun move not of
## ---------- 295 ----------
## odor sometimes to a [ great ] distance given forth by
## ---------- 296 ----------
## not jove not that [ great ] majesty supreme did surpass
## ---------- 297 ----------
## an instant s compass [ great ] hearts sometimes condense to
## ---------- 298 ----------
## confidence acquired by some [ great ] natural geniuses among the
## ---------- 299 ----------
## the wind that made [ great ] bellies of their sails
## ---------- 300 ----------
## ll slay him yet [ great ] god but for one
## ---------- 301 ----------
## man that weeps how [ great ] the agony of the
## ---------- 302 ----------
## spout curled round his [ great ] monadnock hump he was
## ---------- 303 ----------
## then turned the ship [ great ] god where is the
## ---------- 304 ----------
## all collapsed and the [ great ] shroud of the sea
## ---------- 305 ----------
## and owing to its [ great ] buoyancy rising with great
## ---------- 306 ----------
## great buoyancy rising with [ great ] force the coffin lifeSuppose we want to combine terms with great—say, with some other negative terms from the sentiment analysis.
death.positions.v <- which(my.corpus.l[[1]][]=="death")
dead.positions.v <- which(my.corpus.l[[1]][]=="dead")
dark.positions.v <- which(my.corpus.l[[1]][]=="dark")
# now combine the three search-placement vectors into one wit the 'c' combine function
dark.words.md <- (c(death.positions.v, dead.positions.v, dark.positions.v))
dark.words.context <- dark.words.md
context <- 4 # here you can adjust the context
results <- for(i in 1:length(dark.words.context)){
start <- dark.words.context[i]-context
end <- dark.words.context[i]+context
before <- my.corpus.l[[1]][start:(start+context-1)]
after <- my.corpus.l[[1]][(start+context+1) :end]
keyword <- my.corpus.l[[1]][start+context]
cat("----------", i, "----------", "\n")
cat(before,"[",keyword, "]", after, "\n")
}## ---------- 1 ----------
## history of life and [ death ] the sovereignest thing on
## ---------- 2 ----------
## to the sport of [ death ] the crews repair rodmond
## ---------- 3 ----------
## of which the wight [ death ] is the only glazier
## ---------- 4 ----------
## ever have gone a [ death ] harvesting with such a
## ---------- 5 ----------
## the sailors deliriums and [ death ] abominable are the tumblers
## ---------- 6 ----------
## as though naught but [ death ] should part us twain
## ---------- 7 ----------
## life insurance companies pay [ death ] forfeitures upon immortals in
## ---------- 8 ----------
## brevet yes there is [ death ] in this business of
## ---------- 9 ----------
## matter of life and [ death ] methinks that what they
## ---------- 10 ----------
## man who bleeds to [ death ] for conscience is the
## ---------- 11 ----------
## have the fear of [ death ] how then can st
## ---------- 12 ----------
## thou not think of [ death ] and the judgment then
## ---------- 13 ----------
## the ship would sink [ death ] and the judgment then
## ---------- 14 ----------
## and aft think of [ death ] and the judgment then
## ---------- 15 ----------
## time to think about [ death ] then life was what
## ---------- 16 ----------
## undone if at my [ death ] my executors or more
## ---------- 17 ----------
## whale in the very [ death ] lock of the fight
## ---------- 18 ----------
## converted the jaws of [ death ] into an easy chair
## ---------- 19 ----------
## what he thought of [ death ] itself there is no
## ---------- 20 ----------
## aught that looks like [ death ] among sea commanders the
## ---------- 21 ----------
## brute is worried to [ death ] the killer is never
## ---------- 22 ----------
## jib in a squall [ death ] and devils men it
## ---------- 23 ----------
## for the jaws of [ death ] too captain ahab if
## ---------- 24 ----------
## deathful whaleboat s bow [ death ] to moby dick god
## ---------- 25 ----------
## moby dick to his [ death ] the long barbed steel
## ---------- 26 ----------
## as to cause instantaneous [ death ] and however the general
## ---------- 27 ----------
## that every dismembering or [ death ] that he caused was
## ---------- 28 ----------
## white silent stillness of [ death ] in this shark and
## ---------- 29 ----------
## in forecastle stories after [ death ] but he was admitted
## ---------- 30 ----------
## which had had a [ death ] by a whale some
## ---------- 31 ----------
## began to prepare for [ death ] and indeed the shock
## ---------- 32 ----------
## facing the life and [ death ] peril so close to
## ---------- 33 ----------
## in these jaws of [ death ] in vain we hailed
## ---------- 34 ----------
## limb all these and [ death ] itself seem to him
## ---------- 35 ----------
## himself back foremost into [ death ] s jaws can t
## ---------- 36 ----------
## i survived myself my [ death ] and burial were locked
## ---------- 37 ----------
## cool collected dive at [ death ] and destruction and the
## ---------- 38 ----------
## tap on life and [ death ] this old man walked
## ---------- 39 ----------
## on there like grim [ death ] chapter 54 the town
## ---------- 40 ----------
## that his steelkilt s [ death ] would be the signal
## ---------- 41 ----------
## seek to gag in [ death ] the vital jaw of
## ---------- 42 ----------
## with steelkilt since the [ death ] of radney chapter 55
## ---------- 43 ----------
## into the jaws of [ death ] with a halter around
## ---------- 44 ----------
## swift sudden turn of [ death ] that mortals realize the
## ---------- 45 ----------
## start her like grim [ death ] and grinning devils and
## ---------- 46 ----------
## its flexibility even in [ death ] causes it to sink
## ---------- 47 ----------
## that great mass of [ death ] floats on and on
## ---------- 48 ----------
## his foes in his [ death ] his ghost becomes a
## ---------- 49 ----------
## of such a letter [ death ] himself might well have
## ---------- 50 ----------
## into unmerited disaster and [ death ] therefore i saw that
## ---------- 51 ----------
## speculative indifference as to [ death ] but mark the other
## ---------- 52 ----------
## practical resolution in facing [ death ] this right whale i
## ---------- 53 ----------
## to the air after [ death ] it soon begins to
## ---------- 54 ----------
## be recalled the delicious [ death ] of an ohio honey
## ---------- 55 ----------
## wires the life and [ death ] throbs of the whale
## ---------- 56 ----------
## he must die the [ death ] and be murdered in
## ---------- 57 ----------
## bows it was his [ death ] stroke for by this
## ---------- 58 ----------
## dashing each other to [ death ] best therefore withhold any
## ---------- 59 ----------
## bewildered feeling as of [ death ] came over me convulsively
## ---------- 60 ----------
## in this vale of [ death ] god girds us round
## ---------- 61 ----------
## them and a jolly [ death ] and that fine gam
## ---------- 62 ----------
## a skeleton life folded [ death ] death trellised life the
## ---------- 63 ----------
## skeleton life folded death [ death ] trellised life the grim
## ---------- 64 ----------
## pass it without immediate [ death ] but the truth of
## ---------- 65 ----------
## driven one leg to [ death ] and spavined the other
## ---------- 66 ----------
## of the door of [ death ] how he wasted and
## ---------- 67 ----------
## the drawing near of [ death ] which alike levels all
## ---------- 68 ----------
## something vile to the [ death ] devouring sharks no he
## ---------- 69 ----------
## made every preparation for [ death ] now that his coffin
## ---------- 70 ----------
## woe on woe oh [ death ] why canst thou not
## ---------- 71 ----------
## care killing competency but [ death ] plucked down some virtuous
## ---------- 72 ----------
## scorn to flaxen curls [ death ] seems the only desirable
## ---------- 73 ----------
## career like this but [ death ] is only a launching
## ---------- 74 ----------
## unshored therefore to the [ death ] longing eyes of such
## ---------- 75 ----------
## the guilt of intermediate [ death ] here are wonders supernatural
## ---------- 76 ----------
## is more oblivious than [ death ] come hither put up
## ---------- 77 ----------
## it of the true [ death ] temper ahoy there tashtego
## ---------- 78 ----------
## no sooner dead than [ death ] whirls round the corpse
## ---------- 79 ----------
## how fair fair for [ death ] and doom that s
## ---------- 80 ----------
## wake thee not to [ death ] old man who can
## ---------- 81 ----------
## door he placed the [ death ] tube in its rack
## ---------- 82 ----------
## dreaded symbol of grim [ death ] by a mere hap
## ---------- 83 ----------
## hand i hold his [ death ] tempered in blood and
## ---------- 84 ----------
## the onset a pale [ death ] glimmer lit up fedallah
## ---------- 85 ----------
## that little word what [ death ] knell rings in it
## ---------- 86 ----------
## mouldy and over salted [ death ] though cherries cherries cherries
## ---------- 87 ----------
## and pole pointed prow [ death ] glorious ship must ye
## ---------- 88 ----------
## shipwrecked captains oh lonely [ death ] on lonely life oh
## ---------- 89 ----------
## piled comber of my [ death ] towards thee i roll
## ---------- 90 ----------
## savage beneath in his [ death ] gasp kept his hammer
## ---------- 91 ----------
## found to be a [ dead ] whale which some asiatics
## ---------- 92 ----------
## place where the first [ dead ] american whale was stranded
## ---------- 93 ----------
## the nightmare to a [ dead ] sartainty landlord i whispered
## ---------- 94 ----------
## selling the heads of [ dead ] idolators depend upon it
## ---------- 95 ----------
## my room at the [ dead ] of night in fact
## ---------- 96 ----------
## a sportsman bagging a [ dead ] woodcock all these queer
## ---------- 97 ----------
## them and duelled them [ dead ] without winking and yet
## ---------- 98 ----------
## afresh oh ye whose [ dead ] lie buried beneath the
## ---------- 99 ----------
## of living creatures the [ dead ] of mankind are included
## ---------- 100 ----------
## to hush all the [ dead ] wherefore but the rumor
## ---------- 101 ----------
## and even from these [ dead ] doubts she gathers her
## ---------- 102 ----------
## and shrieks in his [ dead ] ear what meanest thou
## ---------- 103 ----------
## now consider his father [ dead ] and gone he being
## ---------- 104 ----------
## of _ile_ was found [ dead ] in my first floor
## ---------- 105 ----------
## eye why dad whale [ dead ] quick bildad said peleg
## ---------- 106 ----------
## when he lay like [ dead ] for three days and
## ---------- 107 ----------
## mystic ways and so [ dead ] to anything like an
## ---------- 108 ----------
## last office for the [ dead ] would find a birth
## ---------- 109 ----------
## home nothing but the [ dead ] wintry bleakness of the
## ---------- 110 ----------
## living thump and a [ dead ] thump that s what
## ---------- 111 ----------
## undoubted superiority over the [ dead ] level of the mass
## ---------- 112 ----------
## pull to men a [ dead ] whale or a stove
## ---------- 113 ----------
## brought me to this [ dead ] stump i stand on
## ---------- 114 ----------
## would have dropped ye [ dead ] perchance ye need it
## ---------- 115 ----------
## cabin builded over the [ dead ] water of the wake
## ---------- 116 ----------
## romish mass for the [ dead ] begins with requiem eternam
## ---------- 117 ----------
## the aspect of the [ dead ] which most appals the
## ---------- 118 ----------
## that pallor of the [ dead ] we borrow the expressive
## ---------- 119 ----------
## afterwards taken from the [ dead ] fish in the three
## ---------- 120 ----------
## first battle not the [ dead ] man s ghost encountering
## ---------- 121 ----------
## to three whales running [ dead ] to leeward our sail
## ---------- 122 ----------
## every stroke of his [ dead ] limb sounded like a
## ---------- 123 ----------
## hours would stand gazing [ dead ] to windward while an
## ---------- 124 ----------
## along the deck like [ dead ] cattle and side by
## ---------- 125 ----------
## to give up its [ dead ] still in dreams sees
## ---------- 126 ----------
## inert mass of a [ dead ] whale a conquered fortress
## ---------- 127 ----------
## and raise the buried [ dead ] perpendicular out of their
## ---------- 128 ----------
## had burst he s [ dead ] mr stubb said daggoo
## ---------- 129 ----------
## mouth stubb scattered the [ dead ] ashes over the water
## ---------- 130 ----------
## that the creature was [ dead ] some vague dissatisfaction or
## ---------- 131 ----------
## the sight of that [ dead ] body reminded him that
## ---------- 132 ----------
## sharks swarming round the [ dead ] leviathan smackingly feasted on
## ---------- 133 ----------
## the table at the [ dead ] meat and though were
## ---------- 134 ----------
## carried anywhere or a [ dead ] slave to be decently
## ---------- 135 ----------
## spirits than around a [ dead ] sperm whale moored by
## ---------- 136 ----------
## command came to a [ dead ] stop on the opposite
## ---------- 137 ----------
## cook when you are [ dead ] but don t you
## ---------- 138 ----------
## the long rows of [ dead ] quadrupeds does not that
## ---------- 139 ----------
## to shut down the [ dead ] lid of his murderous
## ---------- 140 ----------
## true from the unmarred [ dead ] body of the whale
## ---------- 141 ----------
## the man being stark [ dead ] the whole calamity with
## ---------- 142 ----------
## think of the blasphemer [ dead ] and down there beware
## ---------- 143 ----------
## macey and he s [ dead ] poor fellow poor fellow
## ---------- 144 ----------
## scrabble scramble upon the [ dead ] whale s back you
## ---------- 145 ----------
## such prey as a [ dead ] whale the otherwise miscellaneously
## ---------- 146 ----------
## that the devil was [ dead ] did you ever see
## ---------- 147 ----------
## this whale is not [ dead ] he is only dispirited
## ---------- 148 ----------
## s head is a [ dead ] blind wall without a
## ---------- 149 ----------
## mark unerringly impelling this [ dead ] impregnable uninjurable wall and
## ---------- 150 ----------
## frequently found in the [ dead ] bodies of captured whales
## ---------- 151 ----------
## for it usually the [ dead ] sperm whale floats with
## ---------- 152 ----------
## floating body of a [ dead ] whale even as the
## ---------- 153 ----------
## russian campaign turned their [ dead ] horses into tents and
## ---------- 154 ----------
## floating body of a [ dead ] whale both to mark
## ---------- 155 ----------
## fast fish alive or [ dead ] a fish is technically
## ---------- 156 ----------
## is that living or [ dead ] if but decently treated
## ---------- 157 ----------
## when sailors in a [ dead ] calm bathe in the
## ---------- 158 ----------
## a grenadier carrying a [ dead ] comrade from the field
## ---------- 159 ----------
## the congregation of the [ dead ] give not thyself up
## ---------- 160 ----------
## gale had been found [ dead ] and stranded with his
## ---------- 161 ----------
## merely poring over his [ dead ] attenuated skeleton stretched in
## ---------- 162 ----------
## are oftentimes cast up [ dead ] upon that shore the
## ---------- 163 ----------
## the condition of that [ dead ] bone upon which he
## ---------- 164 ----------
## marble senate of the [ dead ] captain peleg s bruited
## ---------- 165 ----------
## now for working in [ dead ] lumber saw a live
## ---------- 166 ----------
## and when thou art [ dead ] never bury thyself under
## ---------- 167 ----------
## elsewhere seen mount his [ dead ] back in a rolling
## ---------- 168 ----------
## an author from the [ dead ] could adequately tell so
## ---------- 169 ----------
## who after embalming a [ dead ] warrior stretched him out
## ---------- 170 ----------
## long parched by the [ dead ] drought of the earthy
## ---------- 171 ----------
## but see no sooner [ dead ] than death whirls round
## ---------- 172 ----------
## thrust upright into the [ dead ] whale s spout hole
## ---------- 173 ----------
## and ere noon the [ dead ] whale was brought to
## ---------- 174 ----------
## with his live and [ dead ] feet a sneering triumph
## ---------- 175 ----------
## his way by mere [ dead ] reckoning of the error
## ---------- 176 ----------
## with the reel the [ dead ] blind wall butts all
## ---------- 177 ----------
## only yesterday but were [ dead ] ere night only that
## ---------- 178 ----------
## the white whale is [ dead ] and then whosoever of
## ---------- 179 ----------
## more me than this [ dead ] one that s lost
## ---------- 180 ----------
## aloft there which way [ dead ] to leeward sir up
## ---------- 181 ----------
## all by heaven this [ dead ] wood has the better
## ---------- 182 ----------
## some ships made of [ dead ] trees outlast the lives
## ---------- 183 ----------
## looking nay a very [ dark ] and dismal night bitingly
## ---------- 184 ----------
## the room stands a [ dark ] looking den the bar
## ---------- 185 ----------
## the harpooneer is a [ dark ] complexioned chap he never
## ---------- 186 ----------
## feel suspicious of this [ dark ] complexioned harpooneer at any
## ---------- 187 ----------
## it was of a [ dark ] purplish yellow colour here
## ---------- 188 ----------
## all over the same [ dark ] squares he seemed to
## ---------- 189 ----------
## if a parcel of [ dark ] green frogs were running
## ---------- 190 ----------
## about me in the [ dark ] landlord for god s
## ---------- 191 ----------
## the flying scud and [ dark ] rolling clouds there floated
## ---------- 192 ----------
## a little in the [ dark ] and now and then
## ---------- 193 ----------
## that for the present [ dark ] ahab slipped my mind
## ---------- 194 ----------
## in the cold and [ dark ] this made me really
## ---------- 195 ----------
## ascribe high qualities though [ dark ] weave round them tragic
## ---------- 196 ----------
## on thou deep and [ dark ] blue ocean roll ten
## ---------- 197 ----------
## but only to drag [ dark ] ahab after it where
## ---------- 198 ----------
## race is the undeniable [ dark ] side of mankind devilish
## ---------- 199 ----------
## side of mankind devilish [ dark ] at that no offence
## ---------- 200 ----------
## high noon through a [ dark ] blue sea leaving a
## ---------- 201 ----------
## came forth from his [ dark ] den into the blessed
## ---------- 202 ----------
## on account of such [ dark ] symptoms the calculating people
## ---------- 203 ----------
## any hospitable shore the [ dark ] ocean and swelling waters
## ---------- 204 ----------
## start all glared at [ dark ] ahab who was surrounded
## ---------- 205 ----------
## trowsers of the same [ dark ] stuff but strangely crowning
## ---------- 206 ----------
## wild conjectures as to [ dark ] ahab s precise agency
## ---------- 207 ----------
## blast and gored the [ dark ] waves in her madness
## ---------- 208 ----------
## him down into their [ dark ] den growlingly disappearing like
## ---------- 209 ----------
## and smelling in the [ dark ] for the blood he
## ---------- 210 ----------
## as before just after [ dark ] that day when one
## ---------- 211 ----------
## out of the small [ dark ] slabs of the noble
## ---------- 212 ----------
## hemp is a dusky [ dark ] fellow a sort of
## ---------- 213 ----------
## declared these things the [ dark ] daring play of his
## ---------- 214 ----------
## captain mayhew began a [ dark ] story concerning moby dick
## ---------- 215 ----------
## being kept in a [ dark ] locker of the cabin
## ---------- 216 ----------
## he came with a [ dark ] flask in one hand
## ---------- 217 ----------
## a chance of a [ dark ] night and he standing
## ---------- 218 ----------
## was a small and [ dark ] but rather delicate looking
## ---------- 219 ----------
## fishermen it designates the [ dark ] glutinous substance which is
## ---------- 220 ----------
## cylindrically to remove its [ dark ] pelt as an african
## ---------- 221 ----------
## ocean which is the [ dark ] side of this earth
## ---------- 222 ----------
## to dress in the [ dark ] and eat in the
## ---------- 223 ----------
## and eat in the [ dark ] and stumble in darkness
## ---------- 224 ----------
## let me read a [ dark ] valley between three mighty
## ---------- 225 ----------
## down our eyes the [ dark ] vale shows her mouldy
## ---------- 226 ----------
## step over into a [ dark ] corner when you ate
## ---------- 227 ----------
## certain little canoes of [ dark ] wood like the rich
## ---------- 228 ----------
## laid in those same [ dark ] canoes and that the
## ---------- 229 ----------
## islands and from these [ dark ] planks the coffin was
## ---------- 230 ----------
## up a cluster of [ dark ] nods replied yes three
## ---------- 231 ----------
## other way oh thou [ dark ] hindoo half of nature
## ---------- 232 ----------
## see better of a [ dark ] night than anybody else
## ---------- 233 ----------
## but it s too [ dark ] to look hear me
## ---------- 234 ----------
## not unaccompanied with hinted [ dark ] meanings he hollowly laughed
## ---------- 235 ----------
## am i in the [ dark ] side of earth that
## ---------- 236 ----------
## the ship during the [ dark ] vicissitudes of the chase
## ---------- 237 ----------
## and thither at every [ dark ] spot however small on
## ---------- 238 ----------
## soon it was almost [ dark ] but the look out
## ---------- 239 ----------
## spout now sir too [ dark ] cried a voice from
## ---------- 240 ----------
## rising from out the [ dark ] waters beneath the hullWhat if you want to identify the first instance of “death”?
first.death <- death.positions.v[1]
my.corpus.l[[1]][first.death]## [1] "death"#grab words before and after 1st 'death' instances and use cat to pretty print
cat(my.corpus.l[[1]] [(first.death-2):(first.death+2)])## life and death the sovereignest# What about the last 'death'?
last.death <- last(death.positions.v)
my.corpus.l[[1]][last.death]## [1] "death"cat(my.corpus.l[[1]] [(last.death-2):(last.death+2)])## in his death gasp keptNow for the fun part. Copy and paste this code block into RStudio. You should be able to run your own key-word-search-in-context application.
# This creates a function to take a list containing word vector # from text files and allows for interactive user input to produce KWIC lists
doitKwic <- function(named.text.word.vector.l){
show.files(names(named.text.word.vector.l))
# ask the user for three bits of information
file.id <- as.numeric(readline(
"Which file would you like to examine? Enter a file number: \n"))
context <- as.numeric(readline(
"How much context do you want to see? Enter a number: \n"))
keyword <- tolower((readline("Enter a keyword: \n")))
hits.v <- which(named.text.word.vector.l[[file.id]] == keyword)
if(length(hits.v)>0){
result <- NULL
for(h in 1:length(hits.v)){
start <- hits.v[h]-context
if(start < 1){
start <- 1 }
end <- hits.v[h]+context
cat("\n-----------------------", h, "-------------------------\n")
cat(named.text.word.vector.l[[file.id]][start:(hits.v[h]-1)], sep=" ")
cat(" [", named.text.word.vector.l[[file.id]][hits.v[h]],"] ", sep="")
cat(named.text.word.vector.l[[file.id]][(hits.v[h]+1):end], sep=" ")
myrow <- cbind(hits.v[h],
paste(named.text.word.vector.l[[file.id]][start:(hits.v[h]-1)],
collapse=" "),
paste(named.text.word.vector.l[[file.id]][hits.v[h]],
collapse=" "),
paste(named.text.word.vector.l[[file.id]][(hits.v[h]+1):end],
collapse=" "))
result <- rbind(result,myrow)
}
colnames(result) <- c("position", "left", "keyword", "right")
toprint <- as.numeric((
readline("Would you like to save this result to a file: enter 1=yes or 0=no \n")))
if(toprint==1){
write.csv(result,
paste("search-results/", keyword,"_In_",
context, names(named.text.word.vector.l)[file.id], ".csv", sep=""))
}
} else {
cat("YOUR KEYWORD WAS NOT FOUND\n")
}
}
doitKwic(my.corpus.l)It will first ask for a file number. Since there is only one file number, enter ‘1’.
It will then ask for how much context you would like. I enter ‘4’.
Then, if we enter a term from our sentiment list, ‘grand’, the results are:
———————– 1 ————————- a sea ibid the [mighty] whales which swim in
———————– 2 ————————- whale boat suddenly a [mighty] mass emerged from the
———————– 3 ————————- euroclydon nevertheless is a [mighty] pleasant zephyr to any
———————– 4 ————————- good laugh is a [mighty] good thing and rather
———————– 5 ————————- smallest strands in the [mighty] cable of the scriptures
———————– 6 ————————- far rush of the [mighty] whale which even now
———————– 7 ————————- this struck me as [mighty] singular yet upon second
———————– 8 ————————- nation s census a [mighty] pageant creature formed for
———————– 9 ————————- bildad might have a [mighty] deal to say about
———————– 10 ————————- than the high and [mighty] business of whaling one
———————– 11 ————————- mother of that now [mighty] colony moreover in the
———————– 12 ————————- our leviathan who but [mighty] job and who composed
———————– 13 ————————- in one of the [mighty] triumphs given to a
———————– 14 ————————- of an enraged and [mighty] man but were the
———————– 15 ————————- who in all thy [mighty] earthly marchings ever cullest
———————– 16 ————————- overbearing dignity of some [mighty] woe ere long from
———————– 17 ————————- and there s a [mighty] difference between a living
———————– 18 ————————- a leech till the [mighty] brute is worried to
———————– 19 ————————- of the high and [mighty] cabin in strange contrast
———————– 20 ————————- for a parmacetty and [mighty] quick captain ahab and
———————– 21 ————————- pregnant with many a [mighty] birth no wonder then
———————– 22 ————————- and fearless as this [mighty] steed whether marching amid
———————– 23 ————————- to preserve all his [mighty] swells and undulations and
———————– 24 ————————- the assault yes a [mighty] change had come over
———————– 25 ————————- hoary with mosses speak [mighty] head and tell us
———————– 26 ————————- in thinking how this [mighty] monster is actually a
———————– 27 ————————- leviathan is of so [mighty] a magnitude all his
———————– 28 ————————- whale this high and [mighty] god like dignity inherent
———————– 29 ————————- all things that are [mighty] wears a false brow
———————– 30 ————————- his men in a [mighty] rage that was a
———————– 31 ————————- drawn off from some [mighty] fountain and with half
———————– 32 ————————- our conceit of the [mighty] misty monster to behold
———————– 33 ————————- more i consider this [mighty] tail the more do
———————– 34 ————————- dark valley between three [mighty] heaven abiding peaks that
———————– 35 ————————- hummed around him the [mighty] idler seemed the cunning
———————– 36 ————————- its length was the [mighty] circular basket of ribs
———————– 37 ————————- fossil whale from his [mighty] bulk the whale affords
———————– 38 ————————- bulk to produce a [mighty] book you must choose
———————– 39 ————————- you must choose a [mighty] theme no great and
———————– 40 ————————- i stand among these [mighty] leviathan skeletons skulls tusks
———————– 41 ————————- mark thou high and [mighty] pilot thou tellest me
———————– 42 ————————- listen what s the [mighty] difference between holding a
———————– 43 ————————- long slow billows of [mighty] bulk and striving in
———————– 44 ————————- the bottomless blue rushed [mighty] leviathans sword fish and
———————– 45 ————————- a gentle joyousness a [mighty] mildness of repose in
———————– 46 ————————- land and as the [mighty] iron leviathan of the
———————– 47 ————————- almost simultaneously with a [mighty] volition of ungraduated instantaneous
This is adapted from Matthew Jockers’s Text Analysis in R for Students of Literature (2014).
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