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.
8,400 tagged parsed sentences
11,302 parsed sentences available
10 books represented
6 modes represented
45.6% 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
8,400
10
6
-0.0075
0.002
2.66e-05
Mode-adjusted, all books
8,400
10
6
-0.0056
0.146
7.95e-04
Book only, excluding Books 4 and 8
6,534
8
6
-0.0052
0.001
0.0060
Mode-adjusted, excluding Books 4 and 8
6,534
8
6
-0.0057
0.143
0.0013
Discourse Mix by Book
Book 1: Route and Locative Description 6.3% (63)
Book 1: Monument Catalogue 24.8% (247)
Book 1: Historical Narrative 32.1% (319)
Book 1: Mythological Narrative 17.0% (169)
Book 1: Ritual or Ethnographic Description 4.0% (40)
Book 1: Sources or Traditions Discussion 15.8% (157)
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Book 2: Route and Locative Description 12.3% (118)
Book 2: Monument Catalogue 25.1% (240)
Book 2: Historical Narrative 16.8% (161)
Book 2: Mythological Narrative 24.3% (232)
Book 2: Ritual or Ethnographic Description 7.5% (72)
Book 2: Sources or Traditions Discussion 13.9% (133)
2
Book 3: Route and Locative Description 14.2% (101)
Book 3: Monument Catalogue 17.8% (127)
Book 3: Historical Narrative 32.8% (234)
Book 3: Mythological Narrative 14.6% (104)
Book 3: Ritual or Ethnographic Description 5.2% (37)
Book 3: Sources or Traditions Discussion 15.4% (110)
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Book 4: Route and Locative Description 5.7% (44)
Book 4: Monument Catalogue 5.7% (44)
Book 4: Historical Narrative 58.5% (453)
Book 4: Mythological Narrative 13.8% (107)
Book 4: Ritual or Ethnographic Description 4.0% (31)
Book 4: Sources or Traditions Discussion 12.3% (95)
4
Book 5: Route and Locative Description 5.2% (37)
Book 5: Monument Catalogue 35.3% (250)
Book 5: Historical Narrative 21.4% (152)
Book 5: Mythological Narrative 11.1% (79)
Book 5: Ritual or Ethnographic Description 9.2% (65)
Book 5: Sources or Traditions Discussion 17.8% (126)
5
Book 6: Route and Locative Description 6.5% (43)
Book 6: Monument Catalogue 33.4% (220)
Book 6: Historical Narrative 32.0% (211)
Book 6: Mythological Narrative 8.3% (55)
Book 6: Ritual or Ethnographic Description 6.2% (41)
Book 6: Sources or Traditions Discussion 13.5% (89)
6
Book 7: Route and Locative Description 9.1% (61)
Book 7: Monument Catalogue 12.2% (82)
Book 7: Historical Narrative 44.1% (297)
Book 7: Mythological Narrative 15.4% (104)
Book 7: Ritual or Ethnographic Description 8.3% (56)
Book 7: Sources or Traditions Discussion 11.0% (74)
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Book 8: Route and Locative Description 20.4% (223)
Book 8: Monument Catalogue 17.4% (190)
Book 8: Historical Narrative 22.0% (240)
Book 8: Mythological Narrative 18.1% (198)
Book 8: Ritual or Ethnographic Description 6.5% (71)
Book 8: Sources or Traditions Discussion 15.6% (170)
8
Book 9: Route and Locative Description 8.7% (75)
Book 9: Monument Catalogue 18.2% (156)
Book 9: Historical Narrative 24.1% (207)
Book 9: Mythological Narrative 20.6% (177)
Book 9: Ritual or Ethnographic Description 8.9% (76)
Book 9: Sources or Traditions Discussion 19.5% (167)
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Book 10: Route and Locative Description 9.8% (95)
Book 10: Monument Catalogue 26.0% (252)
Book 10: Historical Narrative 28.9% (280)
Book 10: Mythological Narrative 13.3% (129)
Book 10: Ritual or Ethnographic Description 5.5% (53)
Book 10: Sources or Traditions Discussion 16.6% (161)
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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
860
10
139
16.2%
Monument Catalogue
1,808
10
412
22.8%
Historical Narrative
2,554
10
1,577
61.7%
Mythological Narrative
1,354
10
857
63.3%
Ritual or Ethnographic Description
542
10
154
28.4%
Sources or Traditions Discussion
1,282
10
688
53.7%
Within-Mode Aorist Trends
Route and Locative Description
860 tagged parsed sentences; 139 contain at least one aorist-tagged token.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
0% 13% 26%
Book 1: 14/63 (22.2%) Book 2: 24/118 (20.3%) Book 3: 18/101 (17.8%) Book 4: 9/44 (20.5%) Book 5: 7/37 (18.9%) Book 6: 6/43 (14.0%) Book 7: 9/61 (14.8%) Book 8: 30/223 (13.5%) Book 9: 12/75 (16.0%) Book 10: 10/95 (10.5%) Book
Sentence proportion
Fit Slope / book R2 p n books
All books -0.0108 0.839 1.98e-04 10 Excluding Books 4 and 8 -0.0102 0.819 0.0020 8
Monument Catalogue
1,808 tagged parsed sentences; 412 contain at least one aorist-tagged token.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
0% 23% 47%
Book 1: 67/247 (27.1%) Book 2: 52/240 (21.7%) Book 3: 30/127 (23.6%) Book 4: 8/44 (18.2%) Book 5: 45/250 (18.0%) Book 6: 87/220 (39.5%) Book 7: 16/82 (19.5%) Book 8: 29/190 (15.3%) Book 9: 29/156 (18.6%) Book 10: 49/252 (19.4%) Book
Sentence proportion
Fit Slope / book R2 p n books
All books -0.0066 0.084 0.4180 10 Excluding Books 4 and 8 -0.0048 0.048 0.6018 8
Historical Narrative
2,554 tagged parsed sentences; 1,577 contain at least one aorist-tagged token.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
0% 39% 78%
Book 1: 212/319 (66.5%) Book 2: 103/161 (64.0%) Book 3: 151/234 (64.5%) Book 4: 265/453 (58.5%) Book 5: 93/152 (61.2%) Book 6: 136/211 (64.5%) Book 7: 183/297 (61.6%) Book 8: 144/240 (60.0%) Book 9: 123/207 (59.4%) Book 10: 167/280 (59.6%) Book
Sentence proportion
Fit Slope / book R2 p n books
All books -0.0059 0.385 0.0556 10 Excluding Books 4 and 8 -0.0072 0.834 0.0015 8
Mythological Narrative
1,354 tagged parsed sentences; 857 contain at least one aorist-tagged token.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
0% 41% 82%
Book 1: 116/169 (68.6%) Book 2: 162/232 (69.8%) Book 3: 62/104 (59.6%) Book 4: 64/107 (59.8%) Book 5: 42/79 (53.2%) Book 6: 33/55 (60.0%) Book 7: 55/104 (52.9%) Book 8: 130/198 (65.7%) Book 9: 115/177 (65.0%) Book 10: 78/129 (60.5%) Book
Sentence proportion
Fit Slope / book R2 p n books
All books -0.0064 0.138 0.2911 10 Excluding Books 4 and 8 -0.0088 0.244 0.2137 8
Ritual or Ethnographic Description
542 tagged parsed sentences; 154 contain at least one aorist-tagged token.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
0% 23% 46%
Book 1: 13/40 (32.5%) Book 2: 24/72 (33.3%) Book 3: 8/37 (21.6%) Book 4: 12/31 (38.7%) Book 5: 14/65 (21.5%) Book 6: 10/41 (24.4%) Book 7: 13/56 (23.2%) Book 8: 16/71 (22.5%) Book 9: 28/76 (36.8%) Book 10: 16/53 (30.2%) Book
Sentence proportion
Fit Slope / book R2 p n books
All books -0.0011 0.003 0.8874 10 Excluding Books 4 and 8 0.0025 0.017 0.7595 8
Sources or Traditions Discussion
1,282 tagged parsed sentences; 688 contain at least one aorist-tagged token.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
0% 35% 69%
Book 1: 87/157 (55.4%) Book 2: 72/133 (54.1%) Book 3: 61/110 (55.5%) Book 4: 53/95 (55.8%) Book 5: 61/126 (48.4%) Book 6: 44/89 (49.4%) Book 7: 37/74 (50.0%) Book 8: 94/170 (55.3%) Book 9: 98/167 (58.7%) Book 10: 81/161 (50.3%) Book
Sentence proportion
Fit Slope / book R2 p n books
All books -0.0011 0.010 0.7806 10 Excluding Books 4 and 8 -0.0016 0.021 0.7299 8
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