Assertion: american chestnut | /r/HasProperty | the most important tree
Facets:
value: commercially
type: MANNER
value: because of the quantities of edible nuts
type: CAUSE
Source sentences:
text: In 1900 the American chestnut was not only the dominant species of eastern hardwood forests in the U.S., it was the most important tree commercially, because of its beautiful, rot resistant lumber, because of the quantities of edible nuts it produced, and because of the rapidity with which it could repopulate clear-cut areas of the forest.