---
title: In her net of hair she caught him--caught Wanâta with her wiles; All… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: In her net of hair she caught him--caught Wanâta with her wiles; All in vain his wife besought him--begged in vain his wonted smiles. Who acts: honor, All, Wanâta. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Legend., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/17/19/)

<!-- 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/) / [Legends of the Northwest](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/) / [The Legend.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/17/) / 19

# Legends of the Northwest, The Legend., sentence 19

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
In her net of hair she caught him--caught Wanâta with her wiles; All in vain his wife besought him--begged in vain his wonted smiles.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** honor, All, Wanâta · **What happens:** catch, beseech, beg, wont, smile · **To what, where:** Wanâta, net, vain wonted smiles

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Legend.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (honor, All, Wanâta), 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:pg8122:17:19
# text = In her net of hair she caught him--caught Wanâta with her wiles; All in vain his wife besought him--begged in vain his wonted smiles.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	net	net	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
11	Wanâta	Wanâta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	wiles	wile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
16	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	nsubj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	vain	vain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
21	besought	beseech	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	begged	beg	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	conj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	vain	vain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	wonted	wont	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	amod	_	_
29	smiles	smile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **catch** | past | honor | Wanâta |  | honor's net of hair |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 2 | **catch** | past | honor *not said here* | Wanâta |  |  |  | with honor's wiles | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wanâta=Theme |
| 3 | **beseech** | past | All in Wanâta's vain wife | Wanâta |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **beg** *speech: request* | participle | All in Wanâta's vain wife *not said here* |  |  | Wanâta's vain wonted smiles |  |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **wont** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **smile** |  | Wanâta |  |  |  |  |  | nom smile «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

<!-- .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:** «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, Project Gutenberg book 8122 (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 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/17/18/)
- next →: [sentence 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/17/20/)
- ↑ back to [The Legend.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/17/)