Assertion: beast | /r/CapableOf | become inarticulate
Facets:
value: in his effort
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: Only Simon knows that the beast does not issue from the sea; he knows that the beast in within the boys, but Simon "became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind's essential illness and his attempt to tell the boys that the beast is their own evil "fell about him in ruins; the laughter beat him cruelly and he shrank away defenseless to his seat.