Every major address by a national leader has a shape: how it invokes past, present and future; the rhetorical register it adopts; the stance it takes to its audience; who it casts as the actor; the scope it speaks to; and which of the nine national-capability domains it bears on. The Sovereign Speech Index codifies each speech across these six dimensions to benchmark the underlying structure across leaders, nations, and moments.
Total words per year
Across the entire corpus. Stacked by selected dimension; bar height = total words tagged that year.
Share over time
100% stacked bar per year. Each segment = share of words tagged to that option, including unclassified.
Featured speeches. Most recent on the left; scroll right for more. Each row of bars is one wrapped line of monospace text; coloured blocks mark sentences that fit the chosen dimension.