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title: [31] By doing this he would prevent them from travelling and cause t… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: [31] By doing this he would prevent them from travelling and cause them to freeze or starve to death. Who acts: 31, megaphone. A sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Phonetic Key., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Phonetic Key., sentence 78

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\[31\] By doing this he would prevent them from travelling and cause them to freeze or starve to death.

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**Who acts:** 31, megaphone · **What happens:** do, prevent, travel, cause, freeze, starve · **To what, where:** this, megaphone

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This is a sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Phonetic Key.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (31, megaphone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66509:21:78
# text = [31] By doing this he would prevent them from travelling and cause them to freeze or starve to death.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	31	31	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	By	by	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
6	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	obj	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	prevent	prevent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	travelling	travel	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	cause	cause	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	freeze	freeze	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	starve	starve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | gerund | 31 *not said here* | this |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality |
| 2 | **prevent** | would | 31 | megaphone |  |  |  | ice *nsubj* | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer they=Theme |
| 3 | **travel** | gerund | 31 *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **cause** | infinitive | 31 *not said here* | megaphone |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **freeze** | to-infinitive | megaphone *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **starve** | infinitive | megaphone *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to death | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Project Gutenberg book 66509 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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