prevent

Who acts: Four boys, work, we, they · What happens: come, get, anticipate, catch, prevent, be · To what, where: it, him, thud, resource, steps, abuse

«prevent» in the Early Modern English dictionary: its meaning for a pupil and its 3 examples, every sentence parsed by Mova itself — its syntax tree, a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, and its pragmatics clause by clause. The word in the dictionary, with its sense in the lessons: prevent in the Early Modern English dictionary.

Meaning 1

To come before or get ahead of something; to anticipate it.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 come	mark
2	come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	before	before	ADV	_	2 come	advmod
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 get	cc
5	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 come	conj
6	ahead	ahead	ADV	_	5 get	advmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 something	case
8	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 get	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 anticipate	punct
10	to	to	PART	_	11 anticipate	mark
11	anticipate	anticipate	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 come	conj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 anticipate	obj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 come	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come	to-infinitive		before property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	get	infinitive		of something; ahead property	vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme of something=Destination
3	anticipate	to-infinitive	it		vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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.

Example 1

Four boys caught him to prevent the thud.

From Peter Pan.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 boys	nummod
2	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 caught	nsubj
3	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 caught	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 prevent	mark
6	prevent	prevent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 caught	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 thud	det
8	thud	thud	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 prevent	obj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 caught	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	past	Four boys	him = he					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	prevent	to-infinitive	Four boys not said here	the thud					vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer thud=Theme

Example 2

Nevertheless, this work is expensive, so in order to keep providing this resource, we have taken steps to prevent abuse by commercial parties, including placing technical restrictions on automated querying.

From Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893.

The tree, 30 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nevertheless	nevertheless	ADV	_	6 expensive	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nevertheless	punct
3	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 work	det
4	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 expensive	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 expensive	cop
6	expensive	expensive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 keep	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	12 keep	advmod
9	in	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	12 keep	mark
10	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 in	fixed
11	to	to	PART	_	12 keep	mark
12	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 expensive	parataxis
13	providing	provide	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 keep	xcomp
14	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 resource	det
15	resource	resource	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 providing	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 taken	punct
17	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 taken	nsubj
18	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 taken	aux
19	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 keep	conj
20	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 taken	obj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 prevent	mark
22	prevent	prevent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 taken	advcl
23	abuse	abuse	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 prevent	obj
24	by	by	ADP	_	26 parties	case
25	commercial	commercial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 parties	amod
26	parties	party	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 prevent	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 placing	punct
28	including	including	ADP	_	29 placing	mark
29	placing	place	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 prevent	advcl
30	technical	technical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 restrictions	amod
31	restrictions	restriction	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 placing	obj
32	on	on	ADP	_	34 querying	case
33	automated	automated	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 querying	amod
34	querying	querying	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 placing	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 expensive	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	this work			expensive, nevertheless property	tree rules
2	keep	to-infinitive					tree rules
3	provide	gerund		this resource			vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition resource=Theme
4	take	present · perfect	we	steps			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent step=Theme
5	prevent	to-infinitive	we not said here	abuse		by commercial parties	vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer abuse=Theme
6	place	gerund	we not said here	technical restrictions	automated querying		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent restriction=Theme on querying=Destination

Example 3

This time they could not prevent him overhearing.

From Irish Fairy Tales.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 time	det
2	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 prevent	obl:unmarked
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 prevent	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 prevent	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 prevent	advmod
6	prevent	prevent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 prevent	obj
8	overhearing	overhear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 prevent	xcomp
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 prevent	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not prevent	could	they	him = he			time		tree rules
2	overhear	gerund	they not said here						vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer

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