Assertion: circus | /r/CapableOf | travel the country
Facets:
value: truly
type: MANNER
value: each year
type: TEMPORAL
value: relatively easily
type: DEGREE
value: to challenge his dominance
type: PURPOSE
value: for 11 months
type: TEMPORAL
value: in bailey’s
type: LOCATION
Source sentences:
text: Some one hundred circuses were traveling the country that year, including ambitious young rivals eager, in Bailey’s absence, to challenge his dominance.
text: Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus brag that it’s three units travel more than 25,000 miles as the circus tours the country for 11 months each year.
text: Eventually, with the expansion of the railroad system, circuses were able to travel relatively easily around the country.
text: In 1889, the brothers made the move from animal-drawn wagons to railroad cars and they became the first circus to truly travel the country.