charge_FEE · cobrar

Hierarchy

Same inventory as English charge_FEE. Not four-place. Surface count can name the shop, Pat, twenty dollars, and the meal — and with fraud on file can tempt a fifth — but the lexicon does not list four (or five) co-arguments of √CHARGE_FEE / √COBR-.

$20 = veinte dólares = one MeasureP. Orthography is not extra arity. Amount and Denomination are both listed inner arguments of that object. Composition is V(MeasureP), not V(n)(U).

Geometry is 1+2 with optional outer Consideration: one Initiator, one applied Source, one measuring object. That is the FROM dual of pagar’s Appl_HAVE. It is not English DOC copied as two ACC Themes, not bet’s 1+3, and not vender’s HAVE-goods + por-Price.

Working hierarchy: Chargor_NOM > Payer/Source_DAT > MeasureP ⟨n,U⟩_ACC (> Consideration por).

Companion cargar is the same √CHARGE_FEE cloth when it means levy/debit (Chargor NOM, Payer DAT, MeasureP ACC). When Destination is a card / account (cargar a la tarjeta), packaging risks charge_ACCOUNT — pointed, not merged this tick.

Spanish frames · Case clothes

No English DOC flip into two accusative Themes. MeasureP stays ACC. Payer is DAT (le / a-PP) or silent. Consideration stays inside por. Clitic clustering diagnoses FEE (lo / le for amount or Payer) versus ACCUSE (lo Target, de Accusation). en can resume a measure; it does not split Amount from unit. Strings below are constructed from the Group B note; they are not field elicitation.

1. ✓ La tienda le cobró veinte dólares a Pat por la comida. DAT Payer + ACC MeasureP + por-Consideration
2. ✓ La tienda cobró veinte dólares por la comida. MeasureP ACC; Payer silent
3. ✓ La tienda le cobró a Pat por la comida. Payer DAT; MeasureP implicit
4. ✓ La tienda le cobró veinte dólares a Pat. Consideration omitted
5. ✓ ¿No le cobraron veinte dólares por la comida? canonical NegQ
6. ✓ Se lo cobraron. lo = MeasureP; le→se with ACC clitic
7. ✓ Le cargaron veinte dólares. companion cargar · same FEE geometry
8. ✓ Pat fue cobrado veinte dólares. Payer-promoted passive · register-variable
9. * La tienda cobró veinte dólares Pat. no reverse / bare DOC of MeasureP + Payer
10. * Le cobraron fraude veinte dólares. ACCUSE + FEE stacked
11. * Le acusaron veinte dólares. FEE MeasureP on ACCUSE verb
12. * El mal tiempo le cobró veinte dólares. Voice filter

MeasureP WH · denomination diagnostics

WH forces Amount ≠ Denomination inside one Case object of ACC. Verbal WH sees the MeasureP, not unit and degree as two objects of cobrar. Same MeasureP pattern as English charge_FEE, pagar’s Amount, and vender’s Price — here the MeasureP is the fee (ACC Theme of the debit), not a por-selected Price of sell.

1. ✓ ¿Cuánto le cobraron a Pat? unit bound
2. ✓ ¿Cuántos dólares le cobraron a Pat?
3. ✓ ¿Veinte de qué le cobraron? de rescue
4. ✓ ¿En qué moneda le cobraron veinte? en denomination rescue
5. * ¿Qué veinte le cobraron? LBC / sortal mismatch
6. * ¿Por qué veinte le cobraron la comida? unit cannot ride out of Consideration por · also Reason reading of por qué
7. ✓ ¿Qué le cobraron? may answer dólares / veinte dólares / un cover

Two constraints conspire on the stars: Left Branch Condition (Amount inside MeasureP; Spanish cannot extract the degree and leave the unit stranded next to the verb), and sortal mismatch under bare qué when the remnant is a numeral. Rescues are veinte de qué and en qué moneda — Group B spellings of English twenty of what / in what. en pronominalizes a measure or a de-Domain; it does not split Amount from unit (Group B note).

Geometry · charge_FEE ≠ pagar ≠ vender ≠ acusar

In La tienda le cobró veinte dólares a Pat, Pat is the person the money comes FROM. In Le pagaron veinte dólares a Pat, Pat is the person the money goes TO. Same letter le / a. The Appl is not the same. Follow-ups flip.

• ≠ pagar / pay_GIVE. Shared MeasureP ⟨n,U⟩ and a human DAT. Split: HAVE of Amount vs FROM / DEBIT. e2 of pagar is Recipient HAS the Amount. e2 of charge_FEE is debit / OWE of ⟨n,U⟩ on the Payer. Payment-true is a later pay event, not e2 of FEE. Clitic cheapness under Neg tracks ACC money on both — the Appl head still differs.
• ≠ vender / sell. vender: Recipient HAS goods (ACC); Price is por-MeasureP. cobrar: money is the ACC MeasureP of the debit; por la comida is Consideration, not Price-as-Theme of por on a HAVE-goods root. ¿Por cuántos dólares no le vendió…? questions a Price. ¿Cuántos dólares no le cobraron…? questions the fee.
• ≠ deduct. Shared FROM + MeasureP Hom. English deduct keeps Domain as from-PP. English charge_FEE can promote Payer to ACC (DOC-cloth). Spanish does not copy that promotion as two ACC Themes. Payer is DAT; MeasureP keeps ACC.
• ≠ acusar / charge_ACCUSE. Ascription: Judge > Target > Accusation. No selected MeasureP. No Appl_FROM of money. *Le cobraron fraude / *Le acusaron veinte dólares cross the clothes. Point the legal neighbour to charge-accuse.html and Attitude blame · culpar.
• ≠ charge_ACCOUNT. to-card / to-account Destination is book-entry. cargar a la tarjeta is that risk for the companion. This page keeps FEE’s DAT Payer + ACC MeasureP; it does not merge Destination.
• Debit-true is e2. Le cobraron veinte dólares is true when ⟨20, dólares⟩ is debited / owed on Pat. A follow-up that Pat never paid (no pagó) does not deny the cobrar event. Goods-HAVE is vender’s e2. Guilt-true is irrelevant on FEE.

Shells, ApplP, and Case

VoiceP  [ la tienda
  (ReasonP / BenP)
  ApplP_FROM  [ PatDAT   [ Appl_FROM
    VP  [ √COBR-   [ MeasureP  [ Amount veinte ] [ N dólares ] ] ] ] ]
  PP_por  [ por  [ la comida ] ] ]

Voice introduces Chargor. Appl_FROM introduces Payer as DAT. MeasureP sits as Incremental Theme of the debit (ACC). Consideration / Reason attach above the inner FROM. There is no Recipient HAVE shell and no English DOC of Payer-ACC + MeasureP-ACC. Putting one in is how the four-place accident is written.

Spanish never assigns four structural Cases. No reverse DOC (*cobró veinte dólares Pat). Passive may promote Payer or MeasureP when the other is dropped — never the money into a Recipient slot of HAVE.

Proto-roles are shell-local. Chargor is a partial Proto-Agent (institution, script, clerk, meter). Payer is Proto-Source, not Proto-Recipient. MeasureP is Incremental Theme of the debit; Hom on ⟨n,U⟩. Denomination is not a fifth theta role.

∃e [ CHARGE(e)
  ∧ INIT(e, tienda)
  ∧ FROM(e, pat)
  ∧ TH(e, ⟨20, dólares⟩)
  ∧ CONSID(e, comida) ]

Type A hacer wrapping of FEE (hicieron cobrar…) is outer CAUSE, not a new money object (Group B note). Consideration never becomes Causee Case.

Underivables (Spanish)

1. * La tienda cobró veinte dólares Pat. no reverse / bare DOC
2. * ¿Qué veinte le cobraron? LBC · Amount ≠ stranded unit
3. * ¿Por qué veinte le cobraron la comida? unit out of Consideration por
4. * Le cobraron fraude veinte dólares. ACCUSE + FEE stacked
5. * Le acusaron veinte dólares. FEE MeasureP on ACCUSE
6. * Le cobraron a Pat de fraude. ACCUSE de on FEE
7. * El mal tiempo le cobró veinte dólares. Voice filter
8. * La comida fue cobrada Pat veinte dólares. Consideration ≠ passivizable object of FEE

Group B packaging · this tick Spanish only

Group B (Spanish, French, Italian) is the Romance Case-cloth contrast set already used for NegQ on sell / blame / bet. Same hierarchy as English charge_FEE; different host of Payer (DAT / a-PP, not DOC ACC) and Consideration letter (por; French pour; Italian per). Clitic clustering diagnoses FEE (lo / le for amount or Payer) versus ACCUSE (lo Target, de Accusation). en / ne pronominalize a measure; they do not split Amount from unit. This page is the Spanish micro-entry. English, Japanese, French, and Italian twins are live at charge-fee.html, charge-fee-ja.html, charge-fee-fr.html, and charge-fee-it.html. Group C / D packaging stay predicted or scout — not elicited here.

Open items

• Italian twin. Live at charge-fee-it.html (addebitare / far pagare). French twin live at charge-fee-fr.html. Group B Romance FEE set closed.
• cargar ACCOUNT risk. Destination-to-card packaging (cargar a la tarjeta) may be FEE cloth or charge_ACCOUNT. NegQ treats Destination as a different cheapness profile from DAT Payer — keep the split; controlled elicitation, not invented judgments.
• Payer-promoted passive. Pat fue cobrado veinte dólares is register-variable; flagged open, not closed.
• Japanese ni vs o on the Payer of 請求 remains scout-open on charge-fee-ja.html.
• Group A Mandarin / Navajo and Group C / D fee roots remain scout / predicted. No fake elicitation.

Corpus filenames

Primary extract for this micro-entry is the Group B Romance paragraph of the charge lexical entry (Spanish cobrar / cargar vs acusar; clitic clustering). Geometry is shared with the English and Japanese FEE micro-entries. Notes also live in site-seed/charge-fee-ja-notes.txt (Group B block). DOCX originals under the Tritransitive lit tree. Constructed ES frames diagnose packaging; they are not new elicitation.