bet · wetten

Examples

Argument difference. English can package the Opponent and the Stake as two bare objects: bet Paul 5 BTC, a double object plus a that-clause. German puts the Opponent in mit + dative. The Stake is an accusative in one set of printed lines and an um-phrase in another. Those lines are not one clause with both stake cloths. A packaging with the person and the stake as two bare objects, neither under mit or um, is not a frame in the dictionaries checked here, and it is not a string the Group D notes derive. Romance takes another route: the person is a dative or a contra / contre / contro phrase. Japanese puts the Opponent in comitative と and keeps one を on the Stake. Mandarin puts the Opponent in preverbal 跟. See bet · Japanese and bet · Mandarin.

Strings below are constructed, from the Group D notes or modelled on them. They are not spontaneous-speech citations and not dictionary lines. Names and tickers are the notes’ working transcription.

1. ✓ Ich wette mit dir um 10 Euro, dass morgen schönes Wetter wird. PONS Rechtschreibung · um-Stake · no platform
2. ✓ Ich wette mit dir einen Kasten Bier! PONS Rechtschreibung · accusative Stake · no um · no clause
3. ✓ er wettete (zwanzig Euro), dass er das Glas in einem Zug austrinkt DWDS · accusative in parentheses · dass-clause · no mit
4. ✓ um eine Flasche Sekt wetten DWDS · um-Stake alone
5. ✓ auf ein Pferd wetten Duden · DWDS · side, not a bookmaker
6. ✓ 0,0041 BTC wettete Tom mit Dick darauf, dass Trump Biden schlägt. constructed · modelled on the Larson line · Stake in the prefield · subject still Tom · clause filled
7. ✓ Mit Dick hat Tom 0,0041 BTC darauf gewettet, dass Trump Biden schlägt. constructed · modelled on the notes’ prefield table · one XP before the finite verb
8. ✓ Ein ganzer Bitcoin kann gegen Shaneeqas DOGE darauf gewettet werden. constructed · notes · werden promotes the Stake · gegen stays
9. ✓ Worauf hat Kim 5 BTC gewettet? constructed · notes · worauf resumes the proposition, not BTC
10. ✓ Womit wurden 0,0041 BTC gewettet? constructed · notes · subject is the Stake · womit resumes mit

um and the accusative

The open cell is the Stake’s clothing, not a fifth participant. The dictionaries print both cloths. They do not print them together.

Duden even splits the glosses: 1a is “eine Wette abschließen”, and the um-phrase sits there; 1b is “als Preis für eine Wette einsetzen”, and the bare accusative sits there. That split is a dictionary cut. It is not yet an argument-structure result. The Group D notes build the four-place wager on the accusative (0,0041 BTC, ein ganzes Bitcoin / einen ganzen Bitcoin). The hierarchy thread still asks for a fuller paradigm: dative affectee versus mit-partner versus um-Stake. That request does not add a place, and it does not license a clause with um and an accusative stake both measuring the same bet. No such clause is printed here.

Odds are a third shape, not a stake and not AGAINST. DWDS prints wette zehn gegen eins. PONS prints acht zu eins wetten, glossed “to bet at eight to one”. gegen in the odds idiom is not gegen Shaneeqas DOGE.

mit, gegen, auf, darauf

Four markers sit near this verb. mit, auf, and darauf are in the dictionaries. gegen as an opposing stake is a working claim from the notes. All of it stays revisable.

mit is the Opponent (revisable). The dative is the case mit governs. Duden writes jemandem inside that PP. PONS writes dir. The person is not a second accusative, and the person is not the subject. On bezahlen the person who comes to HAVE the amount is a morphological dative, with no mit. A wager’s Opponent does not come to HAVE the Stake, because settlement is not entailed. Recruiting that dative next to wetten would be a different numeration. The notes say so. The dictionaries checked here do not print it.

gegen is AGAINST (revisable). English against covers the person and, with a possessive, the opposing stake. The notes split those the way they split mit from gegen: mit Shaneeqa is the partner; gegen Shaneeqas DOGE is the opposing stake. The same shape gegen on tauschen is the other theme of an exchange. Two roots, one preposition — the French contre cell again. In the notes, Wogegen hat er gewettet? and Wogegen hat er getauscht? resume different roots. wogegen resumes the P. It does not resume the unit inside the Stake. This page does not open a tauschen entry.

Two auf-heads (revisable). Dictionary auf is the side you back. The notes’ platform auf is the place of the book. darauf is the correlate that introduces the dass-clause, not a third name for the platform. When the notes put darauf, dass and auf Prizepicks in one clause, they are two heads. worauf is ambiguous between those heads. It is not a resume of BTC.

The Proposition · darauf, dass and auf · platform is locative

English has one complement clause, that-CP, or on plus a noun phrase. German prints both, and the notes keep the bookmaker off both.

• dass-clause. Duden’s wetten, dass … and ich wette, dass du das nicht kannst. DWDS’s er wettete (zwanzig Euro), dass … and the Neutsch sentence. The clause is the Proposition. It can stand with no Stake.
• darauf. The correlate. Duden’s idiom puts the stake after it (darauf wette ich meinen Kopf). PONS prints the frame darauf wetten, dass with an optional mit. The notes treat [darauf [dass CP]] as assembled before it combines with wetten, which is why darauf, dass is not the object of mit.
• auf + side. auf ein Pferd, auf Platz, auf Sieg, and the Zeit sentence auf Rot-Grün. A side and a dass-clause compete for one Proposition.
• Platform. auf Prizepicks and auf DraftKings are in the notes only. They are locative. They are not a fifth argument, and they are not the accusative Stake. A negated second platform (nicht auf Prizepicks) denies one place. It does not add one.
• One Proposition per wager. A dass-clause and an auf-side in the same clause are one restated proposition, or the side is the platform mis-attached. The working claim: one content relation.
• The embedded clause has its own arguments. In dass Trump Biden schlägt, schlägt cases its own object. The prefield of wetten cannot host that object as the Bettor. mit on wetten and the opponent of schlagen are two assigners.
• wer / wie. Duden prints sie wetteten, wer zuerst fertig sein würde. Beckenbauer’s sentence is wie hoch unser Sieg wohl ausfallen würde. An indirect question can be the Proposition. It is not a second Stake.

werden, bekommen, one prefield

V2, the passive, and the R-pronouns are operations on the same four places. They do not add a participant.

One prefield. The finite verb is in C: wettete, hat, sollte, kann. Exactly one phrase sits in front of it. The notes allow that phrase to be the subject, the mit-PP, the MeasureP, darauf, or an auf-PP. The Stake in front (0,0041 BTC wettete Tom …) is still the Stake. Tom is still the subject. Two phrases in front of the finite verb are not a second subject position. The notes treat that order as unavailable. It is not printed here.

werden promotes the Stake. The notes’ passive is Ein ganzer Bitcoin kann gegen Shaneeqas DOGE darauf gewettet werden. The accusative MeasureP is the subject. gegen stays a PP. mit stays a PP when the stake is the subject, as in the womit question below. The Opponent does not become that subject. The platform does not become that subject. A person as the subject of werden, with the stake left behind, is the contrast the notes refuse. The string is not reprinted here. Womit wurden 0,0041 BTC gewettet? keeps the Stake as subject and puts the partner’s P in the prefield. That is the notes’ evidence that the prefield and the subject are not the same slot.

bekommen is out, and still open as a paradigm. bekommen tracks a dative HAVE argument. On this site that promotion belongs to a recipient, not to a mit-phrase; the deduct page already refuses it for a von-domain. The Group D notes predict the same refusal for wetten: the Opponent does not come to HAVE the Stake. The hierarchy thread still lists a filled bekommen paradigm among the Volume 7 gaps. No bekommen sentence with wetten is printed in the dictionaries checked here. None is constructed on this page.

R-pronouns resume a P. womit resumes mit (the Opponent). worauf resumes darauf or auf (Proposition or platform). wogegen resumes gegen (the opposing stake). None of them resumes the denomination inside the MeasureP. On berechnen / belasten, worauf resumes a card. That is a different verb’s P. V2 and these pronouns are not a fourth argument.

Derivations · working sketches, revisable

Each sketch is a working drawing, not a locked analysis. The notes’ point is the one prefield and the one measuring phrase. Open one sketch at a time.

[CP Tom_1
  [C' hat
    [TP t_1
      [VoiceP t_1
        [PP mit Dick ]_3                 ← Opponent · oblique · dative inside mit
        [VP √wetten
           [MeasureP 0,0041 BTC ]_2      ← Stake · one accusative
           [darauf [CP dass … ]]_4       ← Proposition · assembled before V
           [PP auf Prizepicks ]_5 ]      ← Platform · locative
        Voice ]]]]

∃e [ COMMIT_WAGER(e) ∧ INIT(e, tom) ∧ MEAS(e, ⟨0.0041, BTC⟩)
     ∧ CONT(e, ∧trump_beats_biden) ∧ OPP(e, dick) ∧ LOC(e, prizepicks) ]

[TP Kim_1  T
  [VoiceP t_1 Voice                               ← Bettor = Spec,Voice
    [ApplP_LOW Paul_3 Appl_CP                      ← Opponent = low Appl (DOC)
      [VP √BET
         [MeasureP [ Amount 5 ] [ N BTC ] ]_2      ← Stake = one MeasureP
         [CP that it would rain ]_4 ]]]]           ← Proposition = CONTENT

[TP [MeasureP ein ganzer Bitcoin ]_2
  [ kann
    [VoiceP_PASS
       [PP gegen Shaneeqas DOGE ]_3
       [VP t_2  gewettet
          [darauf [CP dass … ]] ]
       werden ]]]