| utterly | 2 | degree |
| in the beginning | 2 | temporal |
| for serious scholars of byzantium | 2 | transitive-object |
| companion → be → necessary | 4 |
| companion → be → must | 4 |
| companion → be → required | 3 |
| negative | neutral | positive |
| 0.144 | 0.541 | 0.315 |
| Raw frequency | 11 |
| Normalized frequency | 0.497 |
| Modifier score | 0.500 |
| Perplexity | 307.206 |