Pausanias Analysis

Book-level morphosyntax trends and sentence-length diagnostics

Morphosyntax Feature Trends by Book

This page expands the top excluding Books 4 and 8 morphosyntax regression coefficients into direct book-by-book prevalence checks. Each point is a book-level proportion of grammar-parsed sentences containing the feature at least once.

8,029parsed sentences
10books represented
8features plotted

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Feature Proportions

Head>child PROPN>DET

Ridge coefficient: 0.127; direction in the model: later_books.

12345678910 0%31%61% Book 1: 385/993 (38.8%)Book 2: 368/895 (41.1%)Book 3: 292/681 (42.9%)Book 4: 387/766 (50.5%)Book 5: 281/667 (42.1%)Book 6: 298/600 (49.7%)Book 7: 326/673 (48.4%)Book 8: 528/1018 (51.9%)Book 9: 350/811 (43.2%)Book 10: 453/925 (49.0%) Book Sentence proportion

Other books Book 4 Book 8 solid all-books regression dashed excluding Books 4 and 8

FitSlope per bookR2pn books
All books 0.0097 0.419 0.0430 10
Excluding Books 4 and 8 0.0091 0.577 0.0288 8

Feature Voice=Act

Ridge coefficient: -0.098; direction in the model: earlier_books.

12345678910 0%50%100% Book 1: 873/993 (87.9%)Book 2: 802/895 (89.6%)Book 3: 601/681 (88.3%)Book 4: 675/766 (88.1%)Book 5: 582/667 (87.3%)Book 6: 507/600 (84.5%)Book 7: 565/673 (84.0%)Book 8: 874/1018 (85.9%)Book 9: 716/811 (88.3%)Book 10: 796/925 (86.1%) Book Sentence proportion

Other books Book 4 Book 8 solid all-books regression dashed excluding Books 4 and 8

FitSlope per bookR2pn books
All books -0.0031 0.313 0.0925 10
Excluding Books 4 and 8 -0.0028 0.257 0.1993 8

Feature Number=Plur

Ridge coefficient: 0.098; direction in the model: later_books.

12345678910 0%50%100% Book 1: 796/993 (80.2%)Book 2: 695/895 (77.7%)Book 3: 549/681 (80.6%)Book 4: 648/766 (84.6%)Book 5: 540/667 (81.0%)Book 6: 466/600 (77.7%)Book 7: 565/673 (84.0%)Book 8: 800/1018 (78.6%)Book 9: 646/811 (79.7%)Book 10: 750/925 (81.1%) Book Sentence proportion

Other books Book 4 Book 8 solid all-books regression dashed excluding Books 4 and 8

FitSlope per bookR2pn books
All books 0.0004 0.004 0.8695 10
Excluding Books 4 and 8 0.0019 0.112 0.4174 8

DepRel/UPOS cc:PART

Ridge coefficient: 0.094; direction in the model: later_books.

12345678910 0%7%14% Book 1: 54/993 (5.4%)Book 2: 56/895 (6.3%)Book 3: 43/681 (6.3%)Book 4: 88/766 (11.5%)Book 5: 52/667 (7.8%)Book 6: 63/600 (10.5%)Book 7: 67/673 (10.0%)Book 8: 88/1018 (8.6%)Book 9: 64/811 (7.9%)Book 10: 94/925 (10.2%) Book Sentence proportion

Other books Book 4 Book 8 solid all-books regression dashed excluding Books 4 and 8

FitSlope per bookR2pn books
All books 0.0039 0.367 0.0633 10
Excluding Books 4 and 8 0.0047 0.678 0.0120 8

DepRel/UPOS obj:PROPN

Ridge coefficient: -0.090; direction in the model: earlier_books.

12345678910 0%16%32% Book 1: 271/993 (27.3%)Book 2: 207/895 (23.1%)Book 3: 180/681 (26.4%)Book 4: 146/766 (19.1%)Book 5: 125/667 (18.7%)Book 6: 100/600 (16.7%)Book 7: 132/673 (19.6%)Book 8: 187/1018 (18.4%)Book 9: 153/811 (18.9%)Book 10: 144/925 (15.6%) Book Sentence proportion

Other books Book 4 Book 8 solid all-books regression dashed excluding Books 4 and 8

FitSlope per bookR2pn books
All books -0.0107 0.716 0.0020 10
Excluding Books 4 and 8 -0.0114 0.770 0.0042 8

Feature Gender=Neuter

Ridge coefficient: 0.086; direction in the model: later_books.

12345678910 0%3%7% Book 1: 42/993 (4.2%)Book 2: 25/895 (2.8%)Book 3: 24/681 (3.5%)Book 4: 31/766 (4.0%)Book 5: 19/667 (2.8%)Book 6: 22/600 (3.7%)Book 7: 39/673 (5.8%)Book 8: 34/1018 (3.3%)Book 9: 36/811 (4.4%)Book 10: 43/925 (4.6%) Book Sentence proportion

Other books Book 4 Book 8 solid all-books regression dashed excluding Books 4 and 8

FitSlope per bookR2pn books
All books 0.0011 0.151 0.2677 10
Excluding Books 4 and 8 0.0015 0.272 0.1847 8

Feature Number=Sing

Ridge coefficient: -0.086; direction in the model: earlier_books.

12345678910 0%50%100% Book 1: 927/993 (93.4%)Book 2: 859/895 (96.0%)Book 3: 646/681 (94.9%)Book 4: 705/766 (92.0%)Book 5: 632/667 (94.8%)Book 6: 564/600 (94.0%)Book 7: 626/673 (93.0%)Book 8: 951/1018 (93.4%)Book 9: 771/811 (95.1%)Book 10: 870/925 (94.1%) Book Sentence proportion

Other books Book 4 Book 8 solid all-books regression dashed excluding Books 4 and 8

FitSlope per bookR2pn books
All books -0.0003 0.006 0.8383 10
Excluding Books 4 and 8 -0.0003 0.014 0.7794 8

Feature Degree=Pos

Ridge coefficient: 0.084; direction in the model: later_books.

12345678910 0%4%8% Book 1: 34/993 (3.4%)Book 2: 16/895 (1.8%)Book 3: 24/681 (3.5%)Book 4: 43/766 (5.6%)Book 5: 43/667 (6.4%)Book 6: 28/600 (4.7%)Book 7: 35/673 (5.2%)Book 8: 28/1018 (2.8%)Book 9: 25/811 (3.1%)Book 10: 56/925 (6.1%) Book Sentence proportion

Other books Book 4 Book 8 solid all-books regression dashed excluding Books 4 and 8

FitSlope per bookR2pn books
All books 0.0016 0.104 0.3629 10
Excluding Books 4 and 8 0.0026 0.308 0.1534 8

Sentence Length Distributions

KDE Overlay

Book 1Book 2Book 3Book 4Book 5Book 6Book 7Book 8Book 9Book 10 01836537189 Sentence length, non-punctuation tokens Density

Book 1Book 2Book 3Book 4Book 5Book 6Book 7Book 8Book 9Book 10

Violin Plots

01836537189 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Book Sentence length

Book Summaries

BooknMeanMedianQ1Q3SD
Book 1 993 19.01 17.00 12.00 24.00 9.98
Book 2 895 18.23 17.00 12.00 23.00 8.93
Book 3 681 18.48 16.00 12.00 24.00 9.35
Book 4 766 20.26 18.00 12.00 26.00 10.70
Book 5 667 19.52 18.00 12.50 24.50 9.61
Book 6 600 18.95 17.00 13.00 24.00 8.83
Book 7 673 20.48 19.00 13.00 26.00 10.14
Book 8 1,018 19.26 18.00 12.00 24.00 9.47
Book 9 811 18.52 17.00 12.00 23.00 8.87
Book 10 925 19.82 18.00 13.00 25.00 9.76

Length Tests

TestStatistic / slopepInterpretation
One-way ANOVA 4.863 1.62e-06 Tests equality of mean sentence length across books.
Kruskal-Wallis 38.076 1.69e-05 Non-parametric test for distribution/median differences across books.
Levene 4.340 1.16e-05 Tests equality of sentence-length variance across books.
Length ~ book, all books 0.078 0.0272 OLS slope in tokens per book; R2 0.001, n 8,029 sentences.
Length ~ book, excluding Books 4 and 8 0.103 0.0056 OLS slope in tokens per book; R2 0.001, n 6,245 sentences.