Assertion: poppy | /r/CapableOf | play as crucial a role
Facets:
value: in the course of events
type: TEMPORAL
value: especially
type: MANNER
value: in the nineteenth century
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: In the nineteenth century, especially, the poppy played as crucial a role in the course of events as petroleum has played in our own century: opium was the basis of national economies, a staple of medicine, an essential item of trade, a spur to the Romantic revolution in poetry, even a casus bell).