Assertion: henry's friend | /r/HasProperty | instrumental
Facets:
value: merely
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: Nonetheless, as a recent interpreter of Thoreau has pointed out, the “exalted and rarefied ideal” of friendship that he upholds does not imply that a friend is merely instrumental to one’s own self-realization (see Hodder 2010, 129–142).