---
title: Some he permitted to pass, but for others he made much trouble, brin… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Some he permitted to pass, but for others he made much trouble, bringing fog and rain and wind until the road was lost to them. Who acts: Some, man. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Hiiaka’s Battle With Demons, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/16/27/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mytholo…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/) / [Hiiaka’s Battle With Demons](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/16/) / 27

# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka’s Battle With Demons, sentence 27

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Some he permitted to pass, but for others he made much trouble, bringing fog and rain and wind until the road was lost to them.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Some, man · **What happens:** permit, pass, make, bring, lose · **To what, where:** much trouble, fog, road

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Hiiaka’s Battle With Demons. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Some, man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66516:16:27
# text = Some he permitted to pass, but for others he made much trouble, bringing fog and rain and wind until the road was lost to them.
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	nsubj	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	permitted	permit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	bringing	bring	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
16	fog	fog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
21	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	advcl	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **permit** | past | Some |  |  |  |  | man *nsubj* | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Causer clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **pass** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Some *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **make** | past | man | much trouble |  |  |  | for others | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent trouble=Product for other=Asset |
| 4 | **bring** | gerund | man *not said here* | fog and rain and wind |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent fog=Theme |
| 5 | **lose** | past · passive |  | the road | fog |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**Text:** «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Project Gutenberg book 66516 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/16/26/)
- next →: [sentence 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/16/28/)
- ↑ back to [Hiiaka’s Battle With Demons](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/16/)