---
title: The guilty parties shall have their just deserts.” — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: The guilty parties shall have their just deserts.” Who acts: guilty parties. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78208/3/74/)

<!-- 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/) / [Winning Buddha's smile](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78208/) / [Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78208/3/) / 74

# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1, sentence 74

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The guilty parties shall have their just deserts.”

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** guilty parties · **What happens:** have · **To what, where:** deserts

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (guilty parties), 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:pg78208:3:74
# text = The guilty parties shall have their just deserts.”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	guilty	guilty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	parties	party	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	just	just	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	deserts	desert	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | shall | the guilty parties | parties's deserts |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent desert=Patient |

<!-- .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:** «Winning Buddha's smile», Project Gutenberg book 78208 (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 73](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78208/3/73/)
- next →: [sentence 75](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78208/3/75/)
- ↑ back to [Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78208/3/)