#175 +V̶I
The words “and”, “but”, and “or” occur as coordinating conjunctions 4,585 times in Project Hail Mary.
All three words appear in every chapter.
The word and appears 3,035 times in total: 914 times in Earth sections and 2,121 times in Space sections.
The word but appears 1,211 times in total: 312 times in Earth sections and 899 times in Space sections.
The word or appears 339 times in total: 98 times in Earth sections and 241 times in Space sections.
Here’s a visualization of the relative frequencies of each word across all sections and chapters of the book. The charts show “and”, “but”, and “or” respectively.
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 (so a bar might be higher, even with fewer occurrences, if the section or chapter is shorter).
Part-of-speech tagging was done with spaCy. The tagging uses Universal POS tags.