promise · Spanish · prometer

Related · comprometerse, jurar, dar su palabra

comprometerse a plus an infinitive is a different frame. DLE lists comprometerse among the synonyms of prometer sense 1. The student dictionary’s pronominal sense 4 prints the complement: Se comprometió a estar aquí a las once and Me he comprometido a hacerle un regalo si saca buenas notas. The verb is pronominal. The infinitive is marked with a. Se comprometió a estar aquí has no dative Promisee. me in Me he comprometido is the pronominal clitic of the subject, not a person the pledge is toward. le in hacerle un regalo is inside the infinitive. The Nueva gramática, §42.2x, prints Me comprometo a ayudarte and the short formula Me comprometo a ello as the compromissive speech act, beside Te lo prometo. The engagement sense is again pronominal, and the other person is con: se comprometió con ella. con is not the dative of Me prometió un regalo.

jurar shares a dative and a que-clause, and the student dictionary’s clauses are oaths. DLE lists jurar as a synonym of prometer sense 1. The student dictionary’s examples are Te juro por Dios que yo no he sido, Te juro por mi padre que no te he engañado, and El sospechoso jura que no sabe nada del robo. te is a dative, as on prometer. por Dios and por mi padre are the witness. The que-clause is indicative, and it affirms or denies. Those lines do not print an accusative thing pledged, the un regalo slot. El ministro jura su cargo ante el rey is the oath of office: su cargo is the accusative, and ante el rey is not a dative Promisee.

dar su palabra is a light-verb locution, and careful speech prints de que. DLE, palabra, defines dar alguien palabra, o su palabra as Prometer hacer una cosa, and prints no clause. The Diccionario panhispánico de dudas, dar item 18, prints Freddy me había dado su palabra de que se estaría quieto por lo menos un año. The Promisee is dative me. The clause is de que, not bare que. The same article says careful speech does not drop de. The Libro de estilo prints Te doy mi palabra de que yo no he sido and rejects Te doy mi palabra que…. prometer in the lines above takes que with no de: Te prometo que iré. English promise that has no light noun and no de.

Subject control is the cut against a Promisee who would act. Le prometió traer… un regalo has the Promiser as the one who brings the gift. Ha prometido venir mañana has the Promiser as the one who comes. A lower subject that is not the Promiser is written as a que-clause: que el trabajo estará, que el pasado no volverá. English I promised her to leave is the same control cut, and on the English page that combined line is constructed.

The muestra sense has no Promisee. La película promete ser interesante and El nuevo refresco de menta promete do not name a person the pledge is toward. La película promete ser un éxito is constructed on the promete ser lines. English It promises to be an exciting few days is that sense on the English page.

Deber is the debt sister already on the site. Pedro debe cien euros a Juan is a present debt: the sum is the direct object, and the person is a, with or without le. prometer names a later giving or a later act. The thing in Me prometió un regalo is not yet the debt’s direct object. Offer is the English future-having sister. pay_GIVE · pagar is the transfer page.

Copular coercion, recorded on this entry. Spanish prometer in the commitment sense is the verb. The dictionaries cited here do not rebuild it as estar plus an adjective. Estar comprometido/a is not printed on the prometer entry, and it is not the engagement line. That line is Rosa se ha prometido con Carlos and se comprometió con ella. Swedish vara skyldig, on the owe page, is the pattern where a copula plus an adjective builds a debt. That pattern is not this verb.

German and Japanese stay unfilled. The English page names versprechen and 約束する as later entries. This page does not add a German clause or a Japanese clause.

Which object the clause treats as the object is the note Causative templates and argument selection. This page does not edit that note. The accusative is the Theme, un regalo. The Promisee is the dative. The que-clause and the infinitive are the propositional complement.

Examples

Argument difference. English promise her a book is a bare person and a bare thing. Spanish Me prometió un regalo is a dative clitic and one accusative. The infinitive with a Promisee is subject control, and Wikcionario prints it. The affirmative que-clause is indicative. The consultation’s subjunctive is the negated pledge. comprometerse a plus an infinitive has no dative Promisee on Se comprometió a estar aquí a las once.

Printed dictionary and grammar lines come first. A constructed line reuses a printed marking. It is labelled constructed.

Derivations · working sketches, revisable

Each sketch is a working drawing. The gift drawing gives the Promiser to the subject, the Promisee to a dative clitic, and the Theme to one accusative. The infinitive drawing keeps the Promiser as the one who acts. The que drawing gives the finite clause its own mood. Open one sketch at a time. Which theta role is the object is the revisable note Causative templates and argument selection. This page does not edit that note.

[ —
  [ √prometer
     [ me ]
     [ un regalo ] ] ]          ← subject Promiser
                                    ← dative clitic
                                    ← one accusative
                                    ← not a bare second object

[ —
  [ √prometer
     [ le ]
     [ traer un regalo ] ] ]    ← Promiser controls traer
                                    ← dative Promisee
                                    ← Wikcionario
                                    ← venir mañana has no le

[ —
  [ √prometer
     [ te ]
     [ que iré ] ] ]            ← dative Promisee
                                    ← que is printed
                                    ← future indicative
                                    ← subjunctive when no prometo

[ —
  [ √prometer
     [ ser aburrida ] ] ]       ← no Promisee
                                    ← ser is inside the infinitive
                                    ← matrix head is promete

[ —
  [ √comprometerse
     [ a estar aquí ] ] ]       ← pronominal se
                                    ← a marks the infinitive
                                    ← no dative Promisee
                                    ← con is the engagement, not this tree