Saturday 11 May 2013

What is the Psalter about?


I found it easier to convert this to html using Word 10 rather than Word 2013.  The content of the graph was developed with Word 2013 and Excel. The Sky drive was unusable. Microsoft informed me that my password would be visible. This is not a step to inspire confidence.






I played around again with my semantic domains in the Psalter and finally figured out an easy way to collect them into larger groupings. What is the Psalter about?
  • just over 40% is about covenant,
  • just under 30% on creation and destruction, 
  • just under 20% about geography, grammar and the names of individual and tribes,
  • just over 10% about trouble, appeal and response.
Here’s my detail
CONCEPT
DOMAIN
ROOT COUNT
TOTAL WORDS
CREATION
ANIMAL
33
86

BIRTH
9
44

BODYPART
37
547

CREATE
25
527

EAT
26
141

FAMILY
27
463

HEAVEN
9
112

HUMAN
19
472

LIFE
10
220

LIGHT
14
92

LION
5
19

PLANTING
14
36

TIME
30
812

VALLEY
8
93

WATER
39
225

WILD
11
69

WINGS
16
48



4006
20.5%
APPEAL / RESPONSE
APPEAL
12
472

HIDE
6
54

HURRY
11
39

LOOK
11
197

PROTECT
33
416

SEEK
8
113

SEND
9
64



1355
6.9%
TROUBLE
BOUND
23
74

EXILE
2
13

EMPTY
4
35

GRIEF
22
61

PLAN
8
53

POOR
19
137

SHAME
8
82

TRAP
7
41

SIN
26
296

WRATH
13
168



960
4.9%
COVENANT / PROMISE
CITY
22
193

CLOTHE
14
60

COVENANT
33
561

CUT
9
35

FLOURISH
31
425

HARVEST
28
106

HOLY
23
669

GOD
8
1280

JOY
35
504

JUDGMENT
23
342

LOVE
13
190

MEASURE
16
198

MUSIC
16
237

OFFER
9
94

PARDON
6
61

PRAISE
12
227

QUIET
10
77

REST
11
51

RULE
35
387

SPEAK
18
398

STAND
14
99

STRENGTH
14
246

SURROUND
6
56

TEACHING
15
305

TRUST
13
203

VALUE
27
113

WALK
20
357

WHOLE
11
643



8117
41.4%
DESTRUCTION
DEATH
12
112

DESTROY
32
178

ENEMY
33
149

FEAR
12
143

FIRE
14
66

HATE
8
74

REBEL
7
126

TROUBLE
33
232

VIOLENCE
22
122

WEAPON
24
111



1313
6.7%
GEOGRAPHY
DISTANT
6
44

GEOGRAPHY
41
154

PERSON
38
167

PLACE
18
157



522
2.7%
GRAMMAR
NEGATIVE
12
579

PARTICLE
37
1470

PRONOUN
33
697

PRONOUN-SA
10
430

QUESTION
8
135



3311
16.9%
19584





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