Stéfan pointed me to Berkley WordSeer a text analysis tool “that includes visualizations and works on the grammatical structure of text.” You can watch the video with Aditi Muralidharan talking about the project. She sees the problem with traditional search being the way keyword reading models texts as a bag of words. What we can’t do is model text as sentences. In other words she wants to leverage natural language processing to enhance search so you can see how “God” is described or what she/he has done. There are also some visualization tools like a heat map and word tree.
There is a nice YouTube video demoing how to use WordSeer to explore “beautiful” in Shakespeare.