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.
3,650 tagged parsed sentences
7,485 parsed sentences available
10 books represented
6 modes represented
47.3% 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
3,650
10
6
-0.0079
0.002
0.0038
Mode-adjusted, all books
3,650
10
6
-0.0061
0.145
0.0157
Book only, excluding Books 4 and 8
2,823
8
6
-0.0045
0.001
0.1239
Mode-adjusted, excluding Books 4 and 8
2,823
8
6
-0.0052
0.135
0.0569
Discourse Mix by Book
Book 1: Route and Locative Description 6.6% (28)
Book 1: Monument Catalogue 24.2% (103)
Book 1: Historical Narrative 31.7% (135)
Book 1: Mythological Narrative 17.4% (74)
Book 1: Ritual or Ethnographic Description 4.5% (19)
Book 1: Sources or Traditions Discussion 15.7% (67)
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Book 2: Route and Locative Description 12.9% (52)
Book 2: Monument Catalogue 25.2% (102)
Book 2: Historical Narrative 19.6% (79)
Book 2: Mythological Narrative 21.8% (88)
Book 2: Ritual or Ethnographic Description 8.2% (33)
Book 2: Sources or Traditions Discussion 12.4% (50)
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Book 3: Route and Locative Description 13.6% (44)
Book 3: Monument Catalogue 17.6% (57)
Book 3: Historical Narrative 34.6% (112)
Book 3: Mythological Narrative 13.3% (43)
Book 3: Ritual or Ethnographic Description 5.9% (19)
Book 3: Sources or Traditions Discussion 15.1% (49)
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Book 4: Route and Locative Description 5.2% (19)
Book 4: Monument Catalogue 5.7% (21)
Book 4: Historical Narrative 55.9% (205)
Book 4: Mythological Narrative 16.6% (61)
Book 4: Ritual or Ethnographic Description 3.8% (14)
Book 4: Sources or Traditions Discussion 12.8% (47)
4
Book 5: Route and Locative Description 5.0% (16)
Book 5: Monument Catalogue 34.6% (110)
Book 5: Historical Narrative 24.5% (78)
Book 5: Mythological Narrative 10.7% (34)
Book 5: Ritual or Ethnographic Description 7.9% (25)
Book 5: Sources or Traditions Discussion 17.3% (55)
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Book 6: Route and Locative Description 8.2% (22)
Book 6: Monument Catalogue 32.7% (88)
Book 6: Historical Narrative 32.3% (87)
Book 6: Mythological Narrative 7.1% (19)
Book 6: Ritual or Ethnographic Description 5.6% (15)
Book 6: Sources or Traditions Discussion 14.1% (38)
6
Book 7: Route and Locative Description 7.8% (23)
Book 7: Monument Catalogue 12.3% (36)
Book 7: Historical Narrative 46.1% (135)
Book 7: Mythological Narrative 14.7% (43)
Book 7: Ritual or Ethnographic Description 10.2% (30)
Book 7: Sources or Traditions Discussion 8.9% (26)
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Book 8: Route and Locative Description 21.3% (98)
Book 8: Monument Catalogue 16.1% (74)
Book 8: Historical Narrative 20.9% (96)
Book 8: Mythological Narrative 18.7% (86)
Book 8: Ritual or Ethnographic Description 6.1% (28)
Book 8: Sources or Traditions Discussion 17.0% (78)
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Book 9: Route and Locative Description 9.9% (36)
Book 9: Monument Catalogue 20.9% (76)
Book 9: Historical Narrative 23.6% (86)
Book 9: Mythological Narrative 22.3% (81)
Book 9: Ritual or Ethnographic Description 6.6% (24)
Book 9: Sources or Traditions Discussion 16.8% (61)
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Book 10: Route and Locative Description 9.6% (41)
Book 10: Monument Catalogue 24.5% (104)
Book 10: Historical Narrative 30.4% (129)
Book 10: Mythological Narrative 12.5% (53)
Book 10: Ritual or Ethnographic Description 5.6% (24)
Book 10: Sources or Traditions Discussion 17.4% (74)
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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
379
10
66
17.4%
Monument Catalogue
771
10
187
24.3%
Historical Narrative
1,142
10
715
62.6%
Mythological Narrative
582
10
373
64.1%
Ritual or Ethnographic Description
231
10
71
30.7%
Sources or Traditions Discussion
545
10
316
58.0%
Within-Mode Aorist Trends
Route and Locative Description
379 tagged parsed sentences; 66 contain at least one aorist-tagged token.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
0% 15% 31%
Book 1: 7/28 (25.0%) Book 2: 11/52 (21.2%) Book 3: 10/44 (22.7%) Book 4: 4/19 (21.1%) Book 5: 3/16 (18.8%) Book 6: 4/22 (18.2%) Book 7: 6/23 (26.1%) Book 8: 10/98 (10.2%) Book 9: 5/36 (13.9%) Book 10: 6/41 (14.6%) Book
Sentence proportion
Fit Slope / book R2 p n books
All books -0.0139 0.578 0.0107 10 Excluding Books 4 and 8 -0.0097 0.576 0.0289 8
Monument Catalogue
771 tagged parsed sentences; 187 contain at least one aorist-tagged token.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
0% 25% 51%
Book 1: 31/103 (30.1%) Book 2: 28/102 (27.5%) Book 3: 16/57 (28.1%) Book 4: 4/21 (19.0%) Book 5: 16/110 (14.5%) Book 6: 38/88 (43.2%) Book 7: 8/36 (22.2%) Book 8: 10/74 (13.5%) Book 9: 10/76 (13.2%) Book 10: 26/104 (25.0%) Book
Sentence proportion
Fit Slope / book R2 p n books
All books -0.0103 0.118 0.3318 10 Excluding Books 4 and 8 -0.0081 0.080 0.4985 8
Historical Narrative
1,142 tagged parsed sentences; 715 contain at least one aorist-tagged token.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
0% 39% 79%
Book 1: 90/135 (66.7%) Book 2: 51/79 (64.6%) Book 3: 71/112 (63.4%) Book 4: 123/205 (60.0%) Book 5: 49/78 (62.8%) Book 6: 55/87 (63.2%) Book 7: 85/135 (63.0%) Book 8: 62/96 (64.6%) Book 9: 54/86 (62.8%) Book 10: 75/129 (58.1%) Book
Sentence proportion
Fit Slope / book R2 p n books
All books -0.0046 0.292 0.1066 10 Excluding Books 4 and 8 -0.0067 0.745 0.0058 8
Mythological Narrative
582 tagged parsed sentences; 373 contain at least one aorist-tagged token.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
0% 42% 83%
Book 1: 46/74 (62.2%) Book 2: 62/88 (70.5%) Book 3: 29/43 (67.4%) Book 4: 41/61 (67.2%) Book 5: 18/34 (52.9%) Book 6: 10/19 (52.6%) Book 7: 28/43 (65.1%) Book 8: 54/86 (62.8%) Book 9: 56/81 (69.1%) Book 10: 29/53 (54.7%) Book
Sentence proportion
Fit Slope / book R2 p n books
All books -0.0051 0.080 0.4292 10 Excluding Books 4 and 8 -0.0048 0.064 0.5469 8
Ritual or Ethnographic Description
231 tagged parsed sentences; 71 contain at least one aorist-tagged token.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
0% 30% 59%
Book 1: 4/19 (21.1%) Book 2: 13/33 (39.4%) Book 3: 6/19 (31.6%) Book 4: 6/14 (42.9%) Book 5: 5/25 (20.0%) Book 6: 3/15 (20.0%) Book 7: 7/30 (23.3%) Book 8: 6/28 (21.4%) Book 9: 12/24 (50.0%) Book 10: 9/24 (37.5%) Book
Sentence proportion
Fit Slope / book R2 p n books
All books 0.0048 0.018 0.7088 10 Excluding Books 4 and 8 0.0106 0.096 0.4545 8
Sources or Traditions Discussion
545 tagged parsed sentences; 316 contain at least one aorist-tagged token.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
0% 40% 79%
Book 1: 42/67 (62.7%) Book 2: 29/50 (58.0%) Book 3: 33/49 (67.3%) Book 4: 29/47 (61.7%) Book 5: 25/55 (45.5%) Book 6: 17/38 (44.7%) Book 7: 15/26 (57.7%) Book 8: 43/78 (55.1%) Book 9: 40/61 (65.6%) Book 10: 43/74 (58.1%) Book
Sentence proportion
Fit Slope / book R2 p n books
All books -0.0032 0.020 0.6957 10 Excluding Books 4 and 8 -0.0018 0.006 0.8557 8
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