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Book-level morphosyntax trends and sentence-length diagnostics

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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.

7,485parsed sentences
10books represented
8features plotted

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Feature Proportions

Head>child PROPN>DET

Ridge coefficient: 0.115; direction in the model: later_books.

12345678910 0%31%63% Book 1: 359/877 (40.9%)Book 2: 376/823 (45.7%)Book 3: 311/644 (48.3%)Book 4: 376/733 (51.3%)Book 5: 295/652 (45.2%)Book 6: 298/570 (52.3%)Book 7: 310/618 (50.2%)Book 8: 517/974 (53.1%)Book 9: 361/745 (48.5%)Book 10: 433/849 (51.0%) 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 0.0088 0.499 0.0225 10
Excluding Books 4 and 8 0.0084 0.582 0.0276 8

Feature Number=Plur

Ridge coefficient: 0.111; direction in the model: later_books.

12345678910 0%50%100% Book 1: 718/877 (81.9%)Book 2: 657/823 (79.8%)Book 3: 524/644 (81.4%)Book 4: 629/733 (85.8%)Book 5: 542/652 (83.1%)Book 6: 460/570 (80.7%)Book 7: 550/618 (89.0%)Book 8: 783/974 (80.4%)Book 9: 607/745 (81.5%)Book 10: 708/849 (83.4%) 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 0.0014 0.026 0.6572 10
Excluding Books 4 and 8 0.0030 0.149 0.3457 8

Head direction advcl:left

Ridge coefficient: -0.108; direction in the model: earlier_books.

12345678910 0%21%43% Book 1: 300/877 (34.2%)Book 2: 239/823 (29.0%)Book 3: 201/644 (31.2%)Book 4: 267/733 (36.4%)Book 5: 126/652 (19.3%)Book 6: 119/570 (20.9%)Book 7: 192/618 (31.1%)Book 8: 223/974 (22.9%)Book 9: 198/745 (26.6%)Book 10: 167/849 (19.7%) 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 -0.0127 0.425 0.0409 10
Excluding Books 4 and 8 -0.0111 0.416 0.0841 8

Feature Number=Sing

Ridge coefficient: -0.106; direction in the model: earlier_books.

12345678910 0%50%100% Book 1: 839/877 (95.7%)Book 2: 794/823 (96.5%)Book 3: 614/644 (95.3%)Book 4: 686/733 (93.6%)Book 5: 633/652 (97.1%)Book 6: 545/570 (95.6%)Book 7: 596/618 (96.4%)Book 8: 943/974 (96.8%)Book 9: 716/745 (96.1%)Book 10: 820/849 (96.6%) 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 0.0012 0.144 0.2799 10
Excluding Books 4 and 8 0.0006 0.135 0.3705 8

Feature VerbForm=Part

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

12345678910 0%25%50% Book 1: 370/877 (42.2%)Book 2: 332/823 (40.3%)Book 3: 253/644 (39.3%)Book 4: 293/733 (40.0%)Book 5: 244/652 (37.4%)Book 6: 183/570 (32.1%)Book 7: 231/618 (37.4%)Book 8: 327/974 (33.6%)Book 9: 259/745 (34.8%)Book 10: 278/849 (32.7%) 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 -0.0102 0.801 4.66e-04 10
Excluding Books 4 and 8 -0.0095 0.786 0.0034 8

Feature Voice=Mid

Ridge coefficient: 0.085; direction in the model: later_books.

12345678910 0%29%58% Book 1: 328/877 (37.4%)Book 2: 278/823 (33.8%)Book 3: 242/644 (37.6%)Book 4: 359/733 (49.0%)Book 5: 272/652 (41.7%)Book 6: 200/570 (35.1%)Book 7: 278/618 (45.0%)Book 8: 350/974 (35.9%)Book 9: 289/745 (38.8%)Book 10: 357/849 (42.0%) 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 0.0029 0.038 0.5870 10
Excluding Books 4 and 8 0.0064 0.351 0.1219 8

UPOS DET

Ridge coefficient: 0.076; direction in the model: later_books.

12345678910 0%50%100% Book 1: 752/877 (85.7%)Book 2: 722/823 (87.7%)Book 3: 570/644 (88.5%)Book 4: 656/733 (89.5%)Book 5: 581/652 (89.1%)Book 6: 528/570 (92.6%)Book 7: 571/618 (92.4%)Book 8: 881/974 (90.5%)Book 9: 660/745 (88.6%)Book 10: 757/849 (89.2%) 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 0.0035 0.309 0.0952 10
Excluding Books 4 and 8 0.0035 0.288 0.1700 8

Feature Voice=Act

Ridge coefficient: -0.075; direction in the model: earlier_books.

12345678910 0%50%100% Book 1: 769/877 (87.7%)Book 2: 742/823 (90.2%)Book 3: 567/644 (88.0%)Book 4: 650/733 (88.7%)Book 5: 576/652 (88.3%)Book 6: 489/570 (85.8%)Book 7: 538/618 (87.1%)Book 8: 840/974 (86.2%)Book 9: 663/745 (89.0%)Book 10: 755/849 (88.9%) 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 -0.0008 0.038 0.5914 10
Excluding Books 4 and 8 -0.0000 0.000 0.9794 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 1 877 19.07 17.00 12.00 24.00 9.64
Book 2 823 18.43 17.00 12.00 23.00 9.03
Book 3 644 18.75 16.50 12.00 23.00 9.59
Book 4 733 20.26 18.00 12.00 26.00 10.65
Book 5 652 19.65 18.00 13.00 25.00 9.31
Book 6 570 19.55 18.00 13.00 24.75 9.24
Book 7 618 21.25 19.00 13.00 27.00 10.89
Book 8 974 19.21 17.00 12.00 24.00 9.44
Book 9 745 18.25 17.00 12.00 23.00 8.43
Book 10 849 19.90 18.00 13.00 25.00 10.11

Length Tests

TestStatistic / slopepInterpretation
One-way ANOVA 6.087 1.45e-08 Tests equality of mean sentence length across books.
Kruskal-Wallis 43.683 1.61e-06 Non-parametric test for distribution/median differences across books.
Levene 5.292 3.16e-07 Tests equality of sentence-length variance across books.
Length ~ book, all books 0.064 0.0875 OLS slope in tokens per book; R2 0.000, n 7,485 sentences.
Length ~ book, excluding Books 4 and 8 0.094 0.0165 OLS slope in tokens per book; R2 0.001, n 5,778 sentences.