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> しかし、あの川のことがもとでじっさい兵太郎君は病気になったのなら、兵太郎君がそれをだまっているはずはない。

Short summary of context: Something happened with 兵太郎君 (heitaroukun) in the
river, and his friends were there. The speaker is one of the friends, 久助君
(kyuusukekun). 兵太郎君 (heitaroukun) didn't show up in school ever since. Now the
speaker asks himself why that is, or rather, if they (kyusuke&co) are the
reason, Heitarou isn't showing up anymore.

I get the vibe of the above sentence somehow, which in my mind looks like this
in English:

> But, if in fact Heitarou got _sick_ because of the river-incident, there
> wouldn't be any reason for him to shut up about this.

**Question** : How can I parse もとでじっさい in that sentence? Did I understand the
sentence correctly?

**What I researched on もとで** :

> 下で: From a german/japanese dictionary: under, by, in. (I don't see the sense
> here if _that_ would be it) 元で：I didn't find 元 with で, but I guess combining
> them the meaning becomes **In fact** (?). But then why is there じっさい behind
> it?
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What does this sentence including もとで mean?
This もとで is 元で, which is a common phrase meaning _due to_ , _because of_ ,
etc. 元 literally means _origin_ or _cause_. You can google `"が元で"` (don't
forget the quotes) to see tons of real examples.

実際【じっさい】 is another adverb which just happens to be there (meaning _actually_
, _in reality_ , of course).
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