Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Phonetic Key., sentence 78

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

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

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.

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

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	[	[	PUNCT	_	2 31	punct
2	31	31	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 prevent	nsubj
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 31	punct
4	By	by	SCONJ	_	5 doing	mark
5	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 31	advcl
6	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 doing	obj
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 prevent	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 prevent	aux
9	prevent	prevent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 prevent	obj
11	from	from	SCONJ	_	12 travelling	mark
12	travelling	travel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 prevent	advcl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 cause	cc
14	cause	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 prevent	conj
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 cause	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 freeze	mark
17	freeze	freeze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 cause	xcomp
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 starve	cc
19	starve	starve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 freeze	conj
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 death	case
21	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 starve	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 prevent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	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

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.

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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🌲 Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Phonetic Key., sentence 78

The tree

Pragmatics

Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Phonetic Key., sentence 78