Early English Printed Sermons


A sermon, preached in the cathedral church of Norwich before the Mayor and aldermen, upon the second of December 1697, being the publick thanksgiving, &c. / by Charles Trimnell ...

Trimnell, Charles, 1663-1723
Publisher: Printed for J Weld
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1697
Approximate Era: WilliamAndMary
TCP ID: A63244 ESTC ID: R20780 STC ID: T2281
Subject Headings: Bible. -- O.T. -- Psalms CXVI, 1-2; Sermons, English -- 17th century;
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Textual Features and Statistics

Nota Bene: QP stands for "quotation/paraphrase." A "unit" stands for a segment produced by EEPS' segmentation unit or an individual marginal note. Adjacent references are those that are located in the same or adjacent segment or note. Chapter-level citations are relevant if the chapter matches that of the query. For book-level queries, all references to the same Bible book are relevant. A "Latin Bible QP" is a quotation or paraphrase of any verse from a Bible that follows the Latin Vulgate tradition: the Vulgate, Douay-Rheims Version, the ODRV, and Wycliffe's version.
Feature Description In-Text Marginal
cited Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent citation 2.0% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 1.5% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 96.5% 100.0%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 2.5% -inf%
sim_score Average cosine similarity score of top Bible verse predictions per unit 0.8% -inf%
cross_score Average cross encoder score of top Bible verse predictions per unit 0.7% -inf%
near_quotations Percentage of units that have high lexical similarity with their Bible verse predictions (any type of score greater than the mean + standard deviation of that score type) 1.5% -inf%



Quotations and Paraphrases

Rather than examine the frequency or proportion of references, it is far more useful to determine which references are most prominent for a citing entity. The visualizations below show the most prominent scriptural references within all publications per year. Prominence, displayed as the value below each label, is measured using the metric of Outgoing Relative Citational Prominence (ORCP) proposed by Wahle et al. (2023). In this case, a positive prominence value for a reference R in a given year means that R constitutes a greater percentage of all the references cited by publications in that year than the average citation percentage of R per year. A negative value indicates that a given reference constitutes a proportion lesser than average. A value of negative infinity means that the query reference does not occur in the citation or QP of a citing entity. A value of "%" (without any numeral value) means that there are no citations or QP corresponding to the query reference.

For quotational prominence, only the predictions with the highest cosine similarity scores for each subsegmented or whole unit of a segment or note are included for consideration. The average quotational prominence for a citing entity is the mean of the prominence percentage points for all references R_ALL that are relevant to the query reference such that each reference R in R_ALL has the highest cosine similarity score with a part or the whole of its covering body segment or marginal note. The percentages of top predictions from each Bible version are displayed in a table below.

For citational prominence, only pluasible scriptural citations and ones where the original phrase does not begin with a lowercase word are included for consideration. A scriptural citation is plausible if its numbering exists in any of the Bibles considered by this project. There are over 76 thousand such excluded candidates out of 1.2 million parsed citational units in total. Each of the four side-by-side tables below also have associated diversity and evenness scores; Simpson's Diversity Index ranges from 0 to 1 such that a higher score indicates a greater species diversity. Likewise, the Shannon Index indicates more evenness in the distribution of individuals in a group when its value approaches 1.


Diversity: 0.8
Evenness: 1.0
Part Prominence
Old Testament (ODRV) 13.631
Old Testament (Geneva) 10.065
New Testament (ODRV) 8.862
Old Testament (AKJV) 7.954
New Testament (AKJV) 7.572
Diversity: 0.857
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
Jude (AKJV) 14.024
1 John (ODRV) 13.819
1 Peter (AKJV) 13.498
Psalms (ODRV) 13.075
Proverbs (AKJV) 12.883
Psalms (Geneva) 12.471
Psalms (AKJV) 11.504
Diversity: 0.889
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
Psalms 114 (ODRV) 11.099
Psalms 105 (Geneva) 11.081
Proverbs 13 (AKJV) 11.069
Psalms 66 (AKJV) 11.068
Psalms 116 (AKJV) 11.055
1 John 4 (ODRV) 11.04
Psalms 116 (Geneva) 11.019
1 Peter 4 (AKJV) 10.986
Jude 1 (AKJV) 10.929
Diversity: 0.889
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
Psalms 114.2 (ODRV) 11.108
Psalms 116.1 (AKJV) 11.108
Psalms 66.19 (AKJV) 11.108
Proverbs 13.19 (AKJV) 11.108
Psalms 105.45 (Geneva) 11.106
Psalms 116.1 (Geneva) 11.106
1 Peter 4.7 (AKJV) 11.104
1 John 4.19 (ODRV) 11.102
Jude 1.25 (AKJV) 11.049
Segment No., Location Verse & Version Verse Text Text Is a Partial Textual Segment/Note Adjacent References Cosine Similarity Score Cross Encoder Score Okapi BM25 Score



Citations
i
The index of citation indicates its position within the text of the segment or a particular note of the segment. For example, if 'Note 0' (i.e., the first note) of this segment has three citations, the citation with index 0 is its first citation, inclusive of all its parsed components.

Diversity: 0.0
Evenness: 1.0
Part Prominence
Old Testament 52.666
Diversity: 0.5
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
Proverbs 46.952
Psalms 44.828
Diversity: 0.667
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
Proverbs 13 33.256
Psalms 105 33.253
Psalms 116 33.218
Diversity: 0.8
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
Psalms 105.43 19.996
Proverbs 13.19 19.995
Psalms 105.45 19.995
Psalms 116.2 19.994
Psalms 116.1 19.987
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase