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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.

2,920parsed sentences
10books represented
8features plotted

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Feature Proportions

Feature Voice=Act

Ridge coefficient: -0.078; direction in the model: earlier_books.

12345678910 0%50%100% Book 1: 302/343 (88.0%)Book 2: 287/318 (90.3%)Book 3: 224/256 (87.5%)Book 4: 245/281 (87.2%)Book 5: 224/255 (87.8%)Book 6: 192/223 (86.1%)Book 7: 217/246 (88.2%)Book 8: 345/402 (85.8%)Book 9: 240/278 (86.3%)Book 10: 274/318 (86.2%) 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 -0.0032 0.533 0.0166 10
Excluding Books 4 and 8 -0.0030 0.508 0.0471 8

Feature VerbForm=Part

Ridge coefficient: -0.070; direction in the model: earlier_books.

12345678910 0%26%53% Book 1: 153/343 (44.6%)Book 2: 121/318 (38.1%)Book 3: 104/256 (40.6%)Book 4: 116/281 (41.3%)Book 5: 108/255 (42.4%)Book 6: 68/223 (30.5%)Book 7: 83/246 (33.7%)Book 8: 136/402 (33.8%)Book 9: 98/278 (35.3%)Book 10: 98/318 (30.8%) 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 -0.0128 0.656 0.0045 10
Excluding Books 4 and 8 -0.0124 0.627 0.0192 8

Feature Voice=Mid

Ridge coefficient: 0.067; direction in the model: later_books.

12345678910 0%27%54% Book 1: 125/343 (36.4%)Book 2: 101/318 (31.8%)Book 3: 95/256 (37.1%)Book 4: 129/281 (45.9%)Book 5: 109/255 (42.7%)Book 6: 71/223 (31.8%)Book 7: 108/246 (43.9%)Book 8: 148/402 (36.8%)Book 9: 103/278 (37.1%)Book 10: 124/318 (39.0%) 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 0.0026 0.032 0.6208 10
Excluding Books 4 and 8 0.0048 0.147 0.3489 8

Head direction advcl:left

Ridge coefficient: -0.065; direction in the model: earlier_books.

12345678910 0%23%45% Book 1: 123/343 (35.9%)Book 2: 83/318 (26.1%)Book 3: 98/256 (38.3%)Book 4: 100/281 (35.6%)Book 5: 51/255 (20.0%)Book 6: 42/223 (18.8%)Book 7: 86/246 (35.0%)Book 8: 82/402 (20.4%)Book 9: 77/278 (27.7%)Book 10: 65/318 (20.4%) 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 -0.0138 0.323 0.0867 10
Excluding Books 4 and 8 -0.0110 0.242 0.2152 8

Feature Person=1

Ridge coefficient: -0.064; direction in the model: earlier_books.

12345678910 0%8%16% Book 1: 47/343 (13.7%)Book 2: 32/318 (10.1%)Book 3: 18/256 (7.0%)Book 4: 17/281 (6.0%)Book 5: 34/255 (13.3%)Book 6: 21/223 (9.4%)Book 7: 10/246 (4.1%)Book 8: 45/402 (11.2%)Book 9: 23/278 (8.3%)Book 10: 28/318 (8.8%) 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 -0.0027 0.080 0.4273 10
Excluding Books 4 and 8 -0.0045 0.237 0.2215 8

Feature Number=Sing

Ridge coefficient: -0.063; direction in the model: earlier_books.

12345678910 0%50%100% Book 1: 331/343 (96.5%)Book 2: 306/318 (96.2%)Book 3: 246/256 (96.1%)Book 4: 266/281 (94.7%)Book 5: 246/255 (96.5%)Book 6: 211/223 (94.6%)Book 7: 236/246 (95.9%)Book 8: 391/402 (97.3%)Book 9: 263/278 (94.6%)Book 10: 308/318 (96.9%) 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 0.0001 0.002 0.8988 10
Excluding Books 4 and 8 -0.0006 0.070 0.5278 8

Head>child PROPN>DET

Ridge coefficient: 0.062; direction in the model: later_books.

12345678910 0%33%65% Book 1: 136/343 (39.7%)Book 2: 143/318 (45.0%)Book 3: 131/256 (51.2%)Book 4: 150/281 (53.4%)Book 5: 118/255 (46.3%)Book 6: 123/223 (55.2%)Book 7: 116/246 (47.2%)Book 8: 206/402 (51.2%)Book 9: 125/278 (45.0%)Book 10: 158/318 (49.7%) 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 0.0059 0.158 0.2561 10
Excluding Books 4 and 8 0.0061 0.196 0.2720 8

Head>child PRON>ADP

Ridge coefficient: -0.061; direction in the model: earlier_books.

12345678910 0%14%28% Book 1: 74/343 (21.6%)Book 2: 76/318 (23.9%)Book 3: 48/256 (18.8%)Book 4: 51/281 (18.1%)Book 5: 58/255 (22.7%)Book 6: 41/223 (18.4%)Book 7: 38/246 (15.4%)Book 8: 90/402 (22.4%)Book 9: 58/278 (20.9%)Book 10: 46/318 (14.5%) 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 -0.0046 0.208 0.1851 10
Excluding Books 4 and 8 -0.0068 0.449 0.0690 8

Sentence Length Distributions

KDE Overlay

Book 1Book 2Book 3Book 4Book 5Book 6Book 7Book 8Book 9Book 10 01631476278 Sentence length, non-punctuation tokens Density

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

Violin Plots

01631476278 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Book Sentence length

Book Summaries

BooknMeanMedianQ1Q3SD
Book 1 343 18.97 17.00 12.00 24.00 9.60
Book 2 318 18.14 17.00 12.00 22.00 8.61
Book 3 256 19.65 17.00 12.00 24.00 10.39
Book 4 281 20.01 18.00 12.00 26.00 10.47
Book 5 255 20.26 18.00 13.00 25.00 10.10
Book 6 223 19.48 17.00 13.00 24.00 9.14
Book 7 246 20.22 19.00 13.00 25.00 9.71
Book 8 402 19.03 17.00 12.00 23.00 9.70
Book 9 278 17.95 17.00 12.00 23.00 8.15
Book 10 318 20.25 18.00 13.00 25.00 10.51

Length Tests

TestStatistic / slopepInterpretation
One-way ANOVA 2.259 0.0162 Tests equality of mean sentence length across books.
Kruskal-Wallis 14.528 0.1048 Non-parametric test for distribution/median differences across books.
Levene 2.109 0.0257 Tests equality of sentence-length variance across books.
Length ~ book, all books 0.049 0.4132 OLS slope in tokens per book; R2 0.000, n 2,920 sentences.
Length ~ book, excluding Books 4 and 8 0.082 0.1971 OLS slope in tokens per book; R2 0.001, n 2,237 sentences.