Assertion: railroad's line | /r/CapableOf | link cotton regions
Facets:
value: to oceanic or river ports
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
Source sentences:
text: Although the antebellum South started early to build railways, it concentrated on short lines linking cotton regions to oceanic or river ports, and the absence of an interconnected network was a major handicap during the Civil War (1861–1865).