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.

11,302parsed sentences
10books represented
8features plotted

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Feature Proportions

Head>child PROPN>DET

Ridge coefficient: 0.148; direction in the model: later_books.

12345678910 0%31%63% Book 1: 561/1354 (41.4%)Book 2: 553/1258 (44.0%)Book 3: 461/959 (48.1%)Book 4: 566/1070 (52.9%)Book 5: 421/944 (44.6%)Book 6: 464/879 (52.8%)Book 7: 473/930 (50.9%)Book 8: 783/1473 (53.2%)Book 9: 531/1139 (46.6%)Book 10: 665/1296 (51.3%) 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 0.0087 0.401 0.0494 10
Excluding Books 4 and 8 0.0085 0.519 0.0439 8

Head>child VERB>PROPN

Ridge coefficient: -0.112; direction in the model: earlier_books.

12345678910 0%40%80% Book 1: 913/1354 (67.4%)Book 2: 802/1258 (63.8%)Book 3: 652/959 (68.0%)Book 4: 701/1070 (65.5%)Book 5: 548/944 (58.1%)Book 6: 555/879 (63.1%)Book 7: 629/930 (67.6%)Book 8: 907/1473 (61.6%)Book 9: 712/1139 (62.5%)Book 10: 754/1296 (58.2%) 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 -0.0071 0.391 0.0534 10
Excluding Books 4 and 8 -0.0069 0.351 0.1217 8

Feature Number=Sing

Ridge coefficient: -0.107; direction in the model: earlier_books.

12345678910 0%50%100% Book 1: 1296/1354 (95.7%)Book 2: 1219/1258 (96.9%)Book 3: 911/959 (95.0%)Book 4: 1006/1070 (94.0%)Book 5: 909/944 (96.3%)Book 6: 836/879 (95.1%)Book 7: 888/930 (95.5%)Book 8: 1422/1473 (96.5%)Book 9: 1086/1139 (95.3%)Book 10: 1252/1296 (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 0.0005 0.031 0.6278 10
Excluding Books 4 and 8 -0.0000 0.000 0.9626 8

Feature VerbForm=Part

Ridge coefficient: -0.107; direction in the model: earlier_books.

12345678910 0%24%47% Book 1: 542/1354 (40.0%)Book 2: 485/1258 (38.6%)Book 3: 360/959 (37.5%)Book 4: 399/1070 (37.3%)Book 5: 323/944 (34.2%)Book 6: 273/879 (31.1%)Book 7: 310/930 (33.3%)Book 8: 483/1473 (32.8%)Book 9: 376/1139 (33.0%)Book 10: 408/1296 (31.5%) 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 -0.0093 0.845 1.70e-04 10
Excluding Books 4 and 8 -0.0092 0.833 0.0016 8

Feature Number=Plur

Ridge coefficient: 0.105; direction in the model: later_books.

12345678910 0%50%100% Book 1: 1115/1354 (82.3%)Book 2: 988/1258 (78.5%)Book 3: 767/959 (80.0%)Book 4: 917/1070 (85.7%)Book 5: 776/944 (82.2%)Book 6: 703/879 (80.0%)Book 7: 801/930 (86.1%)Book 8: 1194/1473 (81.1%)Book 9: 923/1139 (81.0%)Book 10: 1082/1296 (83.5%) 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 0.0018 0.055 0.5155 10
Excluding Books 4 and 8 0.0030 0.192 0.2774 8

Head direction advcl:left

Ridge coefficient: -0.102; direction in the model: earlier_books.

12345678910 0%22%45% Book 1: 445/1354 (32.9%)Book 2: 383/1258 (30.4%)Book 3: 302/959 (31.5%)Book 4: 404/1070 (37.8%)Book 5: 179/944 (19.0%)Book 6: 190/879 (21.6%)Book 7: 273/930 (29.4%)Book 8: 347/1473 (23.6%)Book 9: 324/1139 (28.4%)Book 10: 258/1296 (19.9%) 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 -0.0119 0.385 0.0556 10
Excluding Books 4 and 8 -0.0102 0.393 0.0961 8

DepRel/UPOS obj:NOUN

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

12345678910 0%29%57% Book 1: 575/1354 (42.5%)Book 2: 494/1258 (39.3%)Book 3: 429/959 (44.7%)Book 4: 513/1070 (47.9%)Book 5: 431/944 (45.7%)Book 6: 427/879 (48.6%)Book 7: 425/930 (45.7%)Book 8: 649/1473 (44.1%)Book 9: 519/1139 (45.6%)Book 10: 589/1296 (45.4%) 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 0.0039 0.218 0.1736 10
Excluding Books 4 and 8 0.0052 0.412 0.0860 8

Feature Case=Acc

Ridge coefficient: -0.094; direction in the model: earlier_books.

12345678910 0%50%100% Book 1: 1101/1354 (81.3%)Book 2: 1011/1258 (80.4%)Book 3: 770/959 (80.3%)Book 4: 903/1070 (84.4%)Book 5: 742/944 (78.6%)Book 6: 684/879 (77.8%)Book 7: 760/930 (81.7%)Book 8: 1209/1473 (82.1%)Book 9: 917/1139 (80.5%)Book 10: 1056/1296 (81.5%) 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 0.0003 0.002 0.8954 10
Excluding Books 4 and 8 0.0003 0.008 0.8329 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 1,354 19.02 17.00 12.00 24.00 9.80
Book 2 1,258 18.29 17.00 12.00 23.00 9.08
Book 3 959 18.56 16.00 12.00 23.50 9.43
Book 4 1,070 20.21 18.00 12.00 26.00 10.48
Book 5 944 19.73 18.00 13.00 25.00 9.64
Book 6 879 19.44 17.00 13.00 25.00 9.47
Book 7 930 20.53 18.50 13.00 26.00 10.24
Book 8 1,473 19.59 18.00 13.00 24.00 9.64
Book 9 1,139 18.37 17.00 12.00 23.00 8.69
Book 10 1,296 19.86 18.00 13.00 25.00 10.01

Length Tests

TestStatistic / slopepInterpretation
One-way ANOVA 7.055 3.04e-10 Tests equality of mean sentence length across books.
Kruskal-Wallis 58.028 3.21e-09 Non-parametric test for distribution/median differences across books.
Levene 4.488 6.62e-06 Tests equality of sentence-length variance across books.
Length ~ book, all books 0.084 0.0053 OLS slope in tokens per book; R2 0.001, n 11,302 sentences.
Length ~ book, excluding Books 4 and 8 0.097 0.0022 OLS slope in tokens per book; R2 0.001, n 8,759 sentences.