Assertion: reed | /r/MadeOf | incision
Facets:
value: simply
type: MANNER
value: in the surface of the cane
type: LOCATION
Source sentences:
text: One thing, however, is certain, and that is, that in the earliest forms of calamus the reed would naturally be of cane, because it would be simply formed by an incision in the surface of the cane itself, similar to that made by boys in a piece of straw, when constructing that toy instrument dignified by pastoral poets by the name of oaten pipe.