Assertion: american novel | /r/HasProperty | written
Facets:
value: necessarily
type: DEGREE
value: much sooner
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: In the wake of the Civil War, Forest claimed that "the Great American Poem" could only be created after the United States had experienced hundreds of years of democracy, however, he believed that the Great American Novel could be written much sooner.
text: De Forest did not believe the Great American Novel had necessarily been written yet, but he believed it could be written.