oldFrenchMeta: Meta data for the oldFrench data

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Meta data for the oldFrench data

Description

Meta data for the oldFrench data, a matrix of frequencies for texts (rows) by tag trigrams (columns). The meta data provide information on the texts, manuscript variants, their authors, their region and approximate date of origin, their general topic, and their genre.

Usage

data(oldFrenchMeta)

Format

A data frame with 342 observations on the following 7 variables.

Textlabels

a factor with texts coded as follows:

Abe

J. de Meun, Traduction de la premiere epitre de P. Abelard, 1–821

Hyl1

Anon, La vie de saint Hylaire

Art

J. de Meun, L'art de chevalerie

Bar

Anon, L'histoire de Barlaam et Josaphat

Cathy

Anon, La vie de sainte Catherine d'Alexandrie

Hyl2

Anon, La vie de saint Hylaire

Ch1

Chretien de Troyes, Le Chevalier au lion

Ch2

Chretien de Troyes, Le chevalier au lion

Clari

Robert de Clari, La conquete de Constantinople

Marie

Rutebeuf, Sainte Marie l'Egyptienne

Fab4c

Anon, Fabliau nr 4 ms C

Fab4e

Anon, Fabliau nr 4 ms E

Fab4f

Anon, Fabliau 4f

Faba

Anon, Fabliaux nrs 1,2,4,23 et 29 du ms A

Fabb

Anon, Fabliaux nrs 2 et 4 du ms B

Fabd.COD

Anon, Fabliaux nrs 2 et 4 du ms D

Hyl3

Anon, La vie de saint Hylaire

Jacobi

Pierre de Beauvais, The Liber Sancti Jacobi

Louis

J. de Joinville, La vie de saint Louis

Cathy1

Anon, La passion saynte Katherine

Lancelot

Anon, Lancelot do Lac, p. 1.1–20.13

Merlin1

Merlin, Robert de Boron

Marga

Anon, La vie de Sainte Marguerite de Wace

Martin

Anon, Leben und Wunderthaten des heiligen Martin

Merlin2

Anon, Merlin, p.1–29 (ms. Huth)

RoseA

J. de Meun, Le Roman de la Rose

Arthur

Anon, La mort le roi Artu, par.1–35

NimAf

Anon, charroi de Nimes, ms. A, fragment

NimB1

Anon, Le charroi de Nimes, ms B1

NimB2

Anon, Le charroi de Nimes, ms B2

Nouvel

Jacquemart Gielee, Renart le Nouvel

Jehan

Anon, La vie de saint Jehan Bouche d'Or

Per0

Chretien de Troyes, Perceval

perL

Chretien de Troyes, Perceval

PerQ

Chretien de Troyes, Perceval

PerS

Chretien de Troyes, Perceval

PerU

Chretien de Troyes, Perceval

Queste

Anon, La queste del saint Graal, p.1.1–41.17

Rob

Anon, Robert le Diable, v.1–808

RomB

Anon, Le Roman de Renart, br.VI, ms B

RomD

Anon, Roman de Renard, br.VI, ms D

RomL

Anon, Roman de Renard, br. VI, ms L

RomO

Anon, Le Roman de Renart, br. VI, ms 0

RoseB

Guillaume de Lorris, Le roman de la rose

Sapi

Anon, Sermo de sapientia, dans: Li dialoge Gregoire lo pape

Troi

Anon, Le roman de Troie en prose, par.1–19

Conqueste

Josfroi de Vileharduyn, La conqueste de Costentinoble

YvA

Chretien de Troyes, Le chevalier au lion, v.1–1000

YvP

Chretien de Troyes, Le chevalier au lion, v.1–1000

YvS

Chretien de Troyes, Le chevalier au lion, v.1–1000

YvV

Chretien de Troyes, Le chevalier au lion, v 1–1000

Codes

a factor with manuscript variants, indicated by extensions to the text codes.

Author

a factor with levels Anon, ChretienDeTroyes, GuillaumeDeLorris, Joinville, Meun, NouvelRenart, PierreDeBeauvais, RobertDeBoron, RobertDeClari, RobertLeDiable, Rutebeuf, and Villeharduyn.

Topic

a factor with levels Knight, Other, and Saint.

Genre

a factor with levels poetry and prose.

Region

a factor with levels R1 (Picardie), R2 (Champenois), and R3 (Nievre-Allier).

Year

a numeric vector indicating approximate year of origin.

Source

Data from Nouveau Corpus d'Amsterdam, https://www.ling.uni-stuttgart.de/institut/team/Stein-00011.

References

Ernestus, M., van Mulken, M. and Baayen, R. H. (2007) De syntax van Oud-Franse ridders en heiligen in ruimte en tijd To appear in Onze Taal.

Examples

## Not run: 
data(oldFrench)
data(oldFrenchMeta)

oldFrench.ca = corres.fnc(oldFrench)

plot(oldFrench.ca, rlabels = oldFrenchMeta$Genre, 
rcol = as.numeric(oldFrenchMeta$Genre), rcex = 0.5, 
extreme = 0.1, ccol = "blue")

## End(Not run)

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