Is the Aorist Trend Stylistic or Content-Driven?
This pilot controls the aorist trend by classifying parsed sentences into discourse modes, then asking whether Feature Tense=Aor still declines over book number within comparable modes.
1,200 tagged parsed sentences
8,029 parsed sentences available
10 books represented
6 modes represented
53.2% sentences with aorist
This is a content-control pilot over sentences that have both LLM grammar parses and discourse-mode tags. The mode-adjusted fits are linear probability diagnostics for a sentence containing at least one Tense=Aor token. Within-mode trend lines use book-level aorist proportions weighted by the number of tagged parsed sentences in that mode/book cell. Download regression CSV | Download by-mode aorist CSV | Download mode composition CSV | Download sentence rows CSV
Mode-Adjusted Aorist Slope
The slope is the change in probability that a tagged parsed sentence contains at least one Tense=Aor token per book number.
Fit n Books Modes Aorist slope / book R2 p
Book only, all books
1,200
10
6
-0.0075
0.002
0.1114
Mode-adjusted, all books
1,200
10
6
-0.0046
0.197
0.2823
Book only, excluding Books 4 and 8
938
8
6
-0.0059
0.001
0.2360
Mode-adjusted, excluding Books 4 and 8
938
8
6
-0.0061
0.206
0.1751
Discourse Mix by Book
Book 1: Route and Locative Description 7.0% (10)
Book 1: Monument Catalogue 21.1% (30)
Book 1: Historical Narrative 27.5% (39)
Book 1: Mythological Narrative 15.5% (22)
Book 1: Ritual or Ethnographic Description 0.7% (1)
Book 1: Sources or Traditions Discussion 28.2% (40)
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Book 2: Route and Locative Description 13.4% (20)
Book 2: Monument Catalogue 26.2% (39)
Book 2: Historical Narrative 22.1% (33)
Book 2: Mythological Narrative 24.2% (36)
Book 2: Ritual or Ethnographic Description 2.7% (4)
Book 2: Sources or Traditions Discussion 11.4% (17)
2
Book 3: Route and Locative Description 11.6% (11)
Book 3: Monument Catalogue 21.1% (20)
Book 3: Historical Narrative 32.6% (31)
Book 3: Mythological Narrative 11.6% (11)
Book 3: Ritual or Ethnographic Description 4.2% (4)
Book 3: Sources or Traditions Discussion 18.9% (18)
3
Book 4: Route and Locative Description 3.5% (4)
Book 4: Monument Catalogue 6.1% (7)
Book 4: Historical Narrative 65.8% (75)
Book 4: Mythological Narrative 12.3% (14)
Book 4: Ritual or Ethnographic Description 2.6% (3)
Book 4: Sources or Traditions Discussion 9.6% (11)
4
Book 5: Route and Locative Description 6.1% (6)
Book 5: Monument Catalogue 33.3% (33)
Book 5: Historical Narrative 21.2% (21)
Book 5: Mythological Narrative 8.1% (8)
Book 5: Ritual or Ethnographic Description 9.1% (9)
Book 5: Sources or Traditions Discussion 22.2% (22)
5
Book 6: Route and Locative Description 6.1% (6)
Book 6: Monument Catalogue 31.6% (31)
Book 6: Historical Narrative 36.7% (36)
Book 6: Mythological Narrative 9.2% (9)
Book 6: Ritual or Ethnographic Description 2.0% (2)
Book 6: Sources or Traditions Discussion 14.3% (14)
6
Book 7: Route and Locative Description 7.0% (6)
Book 7: Monument Catalogue 11.6% (10)
Book 7: Historical Narrative 47.7% (41)
Book 7: Mythological Narrative 18.6% (16)
Book 7: Ritual or Ethnographic Description 4.7% (4)
Book 7: Sources or Traditions Discussion 10.5% (9)
7
Book 8: Route and Locative Description 24.3% (36)
Book 8: Monument Catalogue 16.2% (24)
Book 8: Historical Narrative 19.6% (29)
Book 8: Mythological Narrative 16.9% (25)
Book 8: Ritual or Ethnographic Description 4.1% (6)
Book 8: Sources or Traditions Discussion 18.9% (28)
8
Book 9: Route and Locative Description 12.0% (14)
Book 9: Monument Catalogue 14.5% (17)
Book 9: Historical Narrative 23.1% (27)
Book 9: Mythological Narrative 21.4% (25)
Book 9: Ritual or Ethnographic Description 10.3% (12)
Book 9: Sources or Traditions Discussion 18.8% (22)
9
Book 10: Route and Locative Description 11.2% (17)
Book 10: Monument Catalogue 21.1% (32)
Book 10: Historical Narrative 32.2% (49)
Book 10: Mythological Narrative 11.8% (18)
Book 10: Ritual or Ethnographic Description 5.3% (8)
Book 10: Sources or Traditions Discussion 18.4% (28)
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Book
Mode share
Route and Locative Description Monument Catalogue Historical Narrative Mythological Narrative Ritual or Ethnographic Description Sources or Traditions Discussion
Aorist Rate by Mode
Discourse mode Sentences Books Aorist sentences Aorist rate
Route and Locative Description
130
10
32
24.6%
Monument Catalogue
243
10
58
23.9%
Historical Narrative
381
10
267
70.1%
Mythological Narrative
184
10
143
77.7%
Ritual or Ethnographic Description
53
10
13
24.5%
Sources or Traditions Discussion
209
10
125
59.8%
Within-Mode Aorist Trends
Route and Locative Description
130 tagged parsed sentences; 32 contain at least one aorist-tagged token.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
0% 30% 59%
Book 1: 3/10 (30.0%) Book 2: 5/20 (25.0%) Book 3: 2/11 (18.2%) Book 4: 0/4 (0.0%) Book 5: 3/6 (50.0%) Book 6: 1/6 (16.7%) Book 7: 1/6 (16.7%) Book 8: 10/36 (27.8%) Book 9: 2/14 (14.3%) Book 10: 5/17 (29.4%) Book
Sentence proportion
Fit Slope / book R2 p n books
All books 0.0002 0.000 0.9819 10 Excluding Books 4 and 8 -0.0039 0.022 0.7289 8
Monument Catalogue
243 tagged parsed sentences; 58 contain at least one aorist-tagged token.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
0% 26% 51%
Book 1: 13/30 (43.3%) Book 2: 10/39 (25.6%) Book 3: 8/20 (40.0%) Book 4: 1/7 (14.3%) Book 5: 2/33 (6.1%) Book 6: 8/31 (25.8%) Book 7: 1/10 (10.0%) Book 8: 4/24 (16.7%) Book 9: 2/17 (11.8%) Book 10: 9/32 (28.1%) Book
Sentence proportion
Fit Slope / book R2 p n books
All books -0.0177 0.207 0.1861 10 Excluding Books 4 and 8 -0.0173 0.192 0.2779 8
Historical Narrative
381 tagged parsed sentences; 267 contain at least one aorist-tagged token.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
0% 48% 97%
Book 1: 32/39 (82.1%) Book 2: 23/33 (69.7%) Book 3: 24/31 (77.4%) Book 4: 45/75 (60.0%) Book 5: 13/21 (61.9%) Book 6: 25/36 (69.4%) Book 7: 30/41 (73.2%) Book 8: 20/29 (69.0%) Book 9: 19/27 (70.4%) Book 10: 36/49 (73.5%) Book
Sentence proportion
Fit Slope / book R2 p n books
All books -0.0017 0.005 0.8432 10 Excluding Books 4 and 8 -0.0058 0.128 0.3851 8
Mythological Narrative
184 tagged parsed sentences; 143 contain at least one aorist-tagged token.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
0% 50% 100%
Book 1: 19/22 (86.4%) Book 2: 28/36 (77.8%) Book 3: 9/11 (81.8%) Book 4: 11/14 (78.6%) Book 5: 5/8 (62.5%) Book 6: 5/9 (55.6%) Book 7: 13/16 (81.2%) Book 8: 20/25 (80.0%) Book 9: 20/25 (80.0%) Book 10: 13/18 (72.2%) Book
Sentence proportion
Fit Slope / book R2 p n books
All books -0.0057 0.065 0.4757 10 Excluding Books 4 and 8 -0.0073 0.099 0.4484 8
Ritual or Ethnographic Description
53 tagged parsed sentences; 13 contain at least one aorist-tagged token.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
0% 39% 79%
Book 1: 0/1 (0.0%) Book 2: 1/4 (25.0%) Book 3: 1/4 (25.0%) Book 4: 2/3 (66.7%) Book 5: 2/9 (22.2%) Book 6: 0/2 (0.0%) Book 7: 0/4 (0.0%) Book 8: 1/6 (16.7%) Book 9: 4/12 (33.3%) Book 10: 2/8 (25.0%) Book
Sentence proportion
Fit Slope / book R2 p n books
All books 0.0004 0.000 0.9819 10 Excluding Books 4 and 8 0.0118 0.098 0.4504 8
Sources or Traditions Discussion
209 tagged parsed sentences; 125 contain at least one aorist-tagged token.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
0% 48% 97%
Book 1: 22/40 (55.0%) Book 2: 10/17 (58.8%) Book 3: 11/18 (61.1%) Book 4: 9/11 (81.8%) Book 5: 12/22 (54.5%) Book 6: 7/14 (50.0%) Book 7: 6/9 (66.7%) Book 8: 18/28 (64.3%) Book 9: 18/22 (81.8%) Book 10: 12/28 (42.9%) Book
Sentence proportion
Fit Slope / book R2 p n books
All books 0.0021 0.003 0.8729 10 Excluding Books 4 and 8 0.0018 0.003 0.8985 8
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