Assertion: line crossing ceremony | /r/HasProperty | quite a brutal event
Facets:
value: in the 19th century
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: In the 19th century and earlier, the line-crossing ceremony was quite a brutal event, often involving beating pollywogs with boards and wet ropes and sometimes throwing the victims over the side of the ship, dragging the pollywog in the surf from the stern.