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The word “human” occurs 162 times in Project Hail Mary (including in the plural, but not counting “humanity”, “humankind”, “human-sized”, or “humanium”).
The singular is used 88 times and the plural 74 times.
In the Earth sections, the word “human” appears 13 times in the singular and 11 times in the plural. It used in either form by Dr. Lamai 1 time, Leclerc 1 time, Steve Hatch 2 times, Stratt 11 times, and Grace 3 times in direct speech and 6 times as narrator.
In the Space sections, the word “human” appears 75 times in the singular and 63 times in the plural. Grace uses either form 74 times as narrator and 32 times in direct speech. Rocky uses either form 32 times.
54 times, either “human” or ”humans” is used as an adjectival modifier and, in a future beanbag, we’ll look at these and other syntactic functions they are used for.
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 “human” or “humans” (so a bar might be higher, even with fewer occurrences, if the section or chapter is shorter).
The adjectival modifier count is based on a spaCy tagging of an amod dependency.
There may be errors in this that will be corrected over time.
Humans are amaze.
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