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Forms of the word “sleep” occur 115 times across 19 chapters in Project Hail Mary.
The form “sleep” (as a verb or noun) appears 94 times overall: 92 times in Space sections and 2 times in Earth sections. In Space sections it is used 28 times by Rocky, 20 times by Grace in direct speech, and 44 times by the narrator. In Earth sections it is used 1 time by Grace in speech and 1 time by the Air Force Guide.
The form “slept” appears 14 times overall: 8 times in Space sections and 6 times in Earth sections. In Space sections it is used 2 times by Grace in speech and 6 times as narrator. In Earth sections it is used 6 times by the narrator.
The form “sleeping” appears 4 times, only in Space sections and always by the narrator.
The form “sleeps” occurs 3 times, again only in Space sections and always by the narrator.
Here’s a visualization of the relative frequencies across all sections and chapters of the book.
Each coloured bar represents a section and is colour-coded for Earth sections (green) and Space sections (purple).
The grey bars represent the chapters, which are marked with ticks and numbers.
The y-axis is the relative frequency, i.e. the proportion of tokens in that section (or chapter) that match forms of “sleep” (so a bar might be higher, even with fewer occurrences, if the section or chapter is shorter).
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