Assertion: portage | /r/CapableOf | take canal
Facets:
value: to link mississippi valley
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: to link the great lakes
type: PURPOSE
Source sentences:
text: This relatively short portage sparked the imagination of Louis Jolliet who, after passing through this route, exclaimed that it would take a canal across “only a few leagues of prairie” to link the Great Lakes and Mississippi Valley and create a stupendous inland water route through the heart of the continent.