Commentary: Syntax is: NP1[animate] SUBMIT to NP2
Examples:
In the end, many Congresspeople who knew that the resolution was bad policy submitted to the pressure to vote for it.
Soldiers are taught to submit to authority immediately.
Although an employee is equal to the boss as a man, the employee must submit to him because he holds a higher rank.
Were he able to simply reverse his will and submit to fate, he would find peace more swiftly.
There, Alexander Nevsky, the bane of Germans, submitted to the inevitable and accepted Mongol lordship over all of Russia.
Mappings:
VerbNet: acquiesce-95,contribute-13.2-1-1
FrameNet: Compliance
PropBank: NM
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 3, 6, 10
Commentary: Syntax is: NP1 [agent] SUBMIT NP2[concrete] to NP3[human]
Examples:
She submitted a proposal to the agency.
We submitted an application for a grant to the NSF.
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On Feb. 9, 1989, Jeannette Dinning, Lighthill's daughter, submitted the estate for probate.
Mappings:
VerbNet: contribute-13.2-1-1
FrameNet: Submitting_documents
PropBank: submit.01
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 1, 4, 8, 9
Examples:
I submit to you that the accused is guilty.
I jokingly submit to him that this is environment where all editorial decisions should be made.
I had submitted to her that there was a 50/50 chance of failure.
Finally they stopped a day laborer and submitted the question to him.
I submitted the problem to tech support, and everything was quickly resolved and working.
Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: NM
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 1, 2, 5
Examples:
Workers are often not allowed to form unions and are easily submitted to unfair treatment.
He had not submitted to punishment without some resistance.
Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: NM
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 7