{"work":{"slug":"arlt","title":{"source":"Los siete locos","translated":"The Seven Madmen"},"author":"Roberto Arlt","language":"Spanish","languageCode":"es","url":"https://1732studios.com/books/arlt"},"unit":{"kind":"chapter","number":null,"id":"el-suicida","title":{"source":"El suicida","translated":"The Suicide"},"section":"Part Two","summary":null,"url":"https://1732studios.com/books/arlt/el-suicida","lines":224},"previous":"https://1732studios.com/books/arlt/la-revelacion","next":"https://1732studios.com/books/arlt/el-guino","license":"Source text: public domain (Roberto Arlt, d. 1942). English translation: © 2026 1732 Studios, LLC — original draft, pending editorial review. NOTE: this is a minimal seed excerpt to make the app target runnable; full verified content is authored through the content pipeline.","audioBase":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/","lines":[{"number":1,"label":"1","id":"el-suicida-p1-s1","source":"Erdosain permaneció a los pies de la Coja quizá una hora.","translation":"Erdosain stayed at the feet of the Lame Woman for perhaps an hour.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p1-s1.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"permaneció","title":"Preterite of «permanecer»","body":"«permaneció» is the preterite of «permanecer» ('to remain, to stay'). The preterite frames the hour as a single, bounded stretch of time now closed — 'he stayed', viewed as a completed whole."}],"words":[{"surface":"Erdosain","lemma":"Erdosain","morphology":"proper noun","role":"subject of permaneció","gloss":"Erdosain"},{"surface":"permaneció","lemma":"permanecer","morphology":"verb, past, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"stayed"},{"surface":"a","lemma":"a","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking pies","gloss":"at"},{"surface":"los","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, masculine, plural","role":"determiner of pies","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"pies","lemma":"pie","morphology":"noun, masculine, plural","role":"oblique complement of permaneció","gloss":"feet"},{"surface":"de","lemma":"de","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking Coja","gloss":"of"},{"surface":"la","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, feminine, singular","role":"determiner of Coja","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"Coja","lemma":"Coja","morphology":"proper noun","role":"modifies pies","gloss":"Lame Woman"},{"surface":"quizá","lemma":"quizá","morphology":"adverb","role":"modifies hora","gloss":"perhaps"},{"surface":"una","lemma":"uno","morphology":"determiner, feminine, singular","role":"determiner of hora","gloss":"an"},{"surface":"hora","lemma":"hora","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"oblique complement of permaneció","gloss":"hour"}]},{"number":2,"label":"","id":"el-suicida-p1-s2","source":"Las anteriores emociones se disolvían en su actual modorra.","translation":"His earlier emotions were dissolving into his present drowsiness.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p1-s2.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"se disolvían","title":"Imperfect + pronominal verb","body":"«disolverse» is pronominal: the «se» turns 'to dissolve (something)' into 'to dissolve / melt away' on its own. The imperfect «disolvían» shows the process still underway — 'were dissolving', an unfinished backdrop rather than a single event."}],"words":[{"surface":"Las","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, feminine, plural","role":"determiner of emociones","gloss":"The"},{"surface":"anteriores","lemma":"anterior","morphology":"adjective, plural","role":"modifies emociones","gloss":"earlier"},{"surface":"emociones","lemma":"emoción","morphology":"noun, feminine, plural","role":"subject of disolvían","gloss":"emotions"},{"surface":"se","lemma":"él","morphology":"pronoun, accusative, reflexive","role":"reflexive particle of disolvían","gloss":"themselves"},{"surface":"disolvían","lemma":"disolver","morphology":"verb, imperfect, indicative, third-person, plural","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"were dissolving"},{"surface":"en","lemma":"en","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking modorra","gloss":"into"},{"surface":"su","lemma":"su","morphology":"determiner, singular","role":"determiner of modorra","gloss":"his"},{"surface":"actual","lemma":"actual","morphology":"adjective, singular","role":"modifies modorra","gloss":"present","note":"False friend: Spanish 'actual' means 'present, current,' not English 'actual.'"},{"surface":"modorra","lemma":"modorra","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"oblique complement of disolvían","gloss":"drowsiness"}]},{"number":3,"label":"","id":"el-suicida-p1-s3","source":"Sentíase extraño a todo lo ocurrido en el transcurso del día.","translation":"He felt himself a stranger to everything that had happened over the course of the day.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p1-s3.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"Sentíase","title":"Enclitic pronoun: «sentíase»","body":"«Sentíase» = «se sentía» with the pronoun attached to the end of the verb. This enclitic placement is a literary, slightly old-fashioned style Arlt uses constantly; in everyday speech the pronoun comes first: «se sentía»."}],"words":[{"surface":"Sentíase","lemma":"sentir","morphology":"verb, imperfect, indicative, third-person, singular (with enclitic se)","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"Felt himself","note":"Literary word order: 'Sentíase' = 'se sentía' (reflexive pronoun attached after the verb)."},{"surface":"extraño","lemma":"extraño","morphology":"adjective, masculine, singular","role":"predicate complement of Sentíase","gloss":"a stranger"},{"surface":"a","lemma":"a","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking ocurrido","gloss":"to"},{"surface":"todo","lemma":"todo","morphology":"determiner, masculine, singular","role":"determiner of lo","gloss":"all"},{"surface":"lo","lemma":"lo","morphology":"article, neuter, singular","role":"nominalizes ocurrido","gloss":"what"},{"surface":"ocurrido","lemma":"ocurrido","morphology":"adjective, masculine, singular","role":"object of the preposition a","gloss":"happened"},{"surface":"en","lemma":"en","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking transcurso","gloss":"over"},{"surface":"el","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, masculine, singular","role":"determiner of transcurso","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"transcurso","lemma":"transcurso","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"oblique complement of ocurrido","gloss":"course"},{"surface":"del","lemma":"del","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking día","gloss":"of the"},{"surface":"día","lemma":"día","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"modifies transcurso","gloss":"day"}]},{"number":4,"label":"","id":"el-suicida-p1-s4","source":"La angustia y la malevolencia se endurecían en su pecho como el fango bajo el sol.","translation":"Anguish and ill will were hardening in his chest like mud under the sun.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p1-s4.m4a","notes":[],"words":[{"surface":"La","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, feminine, singular","role":"determiner of angustia","gloss":"The"},{"surface":"angustia","lemma":"angustia","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"subject of endurecían","gloss":"Anguish"},{"surface":"y","lemma":"y","morphology":"conjunction","role":"links the coordination","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"la","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, feminine, singular","role":"determiner of malevolencia","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"malevolencia","lemma":"malevolencia","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"coordinated with angustia","gloss":"ill will"},{"surface":"se","lemma":"él","morphology":"pronoun, accusative, reflexive","role":"reflexive particle of endurecían","gloss":"themselves"},{"surface":"endurecían","lemma":"endurecer","morphology":"verb, imperfect, indicative, third-person, plural","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"were hardening"},{"surface":"en","lemma":"en","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking pecho","gloss":"in"},{"surface":"su","lemma":"su","morphology":"determiner, singular","role":"determiner of pecho","gloss":"his"},{"surface":"pecho","lemma":"pecho","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"oblique complement of endurecían","gloss":"chest"},{"surface":"como","lemma":"como","morphology":"subordinating conjunction","role":"introduces the clause of fango","gloss":"like"},{"surface":"el","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, masculine, singular","role":"determiner of fango","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"fango","lemma":"fango","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"oblique complement of endurecían","gloss":"mud"},{"surface":"bajo","lemma":"bajo","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking sol","gloss":"under"},{"surface":"el","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, masculine, singular","role":"determiner of sol","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"sol","lemma":"sol","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"modifies fango","gloss":"sun"}]},{"number":5,"label":"","id":"el-suicida-p1-s5","source":"Permanecía, sin embargo, inmóvil, sometido al poder de la somnolencia oscura que se desprendía de su cansancio.","translation":"Still, he remained motionless, subject to the power of the dark sleepiness that rose off his exhaustion.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p1-s5.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"sin embargo","title":"«sin embargo» — 'however'","body":"«sin embargo» is a fixed connector meaning 'however, nevertheless'. Note it has nothing to do with «embarazo» ('pregnancy'); it is the standard adversative link between contrasting clauses."}],"words":[{"surface":"Permanecía","lemma":"permanecer","morphology":"verb, imperfect, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"Remained"},{"surface":"sin","lemma":"sin","morphology":"preposition","role":"head of the phrase","gloss":"however"},{"surface":"embargo","lemma":"embargo","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"part of the phrase sin","gloss":"nevertheless","note":"Fixed idiom: 'sin embargo' means 'however, nevertheless' — not 'without embargo.'"},{"surface":"inmóvil","lemma":"inmóvil","morphology":"adjective, singular","role":"predicate complement of Permanecía","gloss":"motionless"},{"surface":"sometido","lemma":"sometido","morphology":"adjective, masculine, singular","role":"adverbial clause on Permanecía","gloss":"subject"},{"surface":"al","lemma":"al","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking poder","gloss":"to the"},{"surface":"poder","lemma":"poder","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"complement of sometido, via al","gloss":"power"},{"surface":"de","lemma":"de","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking somnolencia","gloss":"of"},{"surface":"la","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, feminine, singular","role":"determiner of somnolencia","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"somnolencia","lemma":"somnolencia","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"modifies poder","gloss":"sleepiness"},{"surface":"oscura","lemma":"oscuro","morphology":"adjective, feminine, singular","role":"modifies somnolencia","gloss":"dark"},{"surface":"que","lemma":"que","morphology":"pronoun","role":"subject of desprendía","gloss":"that"},{"surface":"se","lemma":"él","morphology":"pronoun, accusative, reflexive","role":"reflexive particle of desprendía","gloss":"itself"},{"surface":"desprendía","lemma":"desprender","morphology":"verb, imperfect, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"clause modifying somnolencia","gloss":"rose"},{"surface":"de","lemma":"de","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking cansancio","gloss":"off"},{"surface":"su","lemma":"su","morphology":"determiner, singular","role":"determiner of cansancio","gloss":"his"},{"surface":"cansancio","lemma":"cansancio","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"object of preposition de","gloss":"exhaustion"}]},{"number":6,"label":"","id":"el-suicida-p1-s6","source":"Pero su frente se arrugaba.","translation":"But his brow was furrowing.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p1-s6.m4a","notes":[],"words":[{"surface":"Pero","lemma":"pero","morphology":"conjunction","role":"modifies arrugaba","gloss":"But"},{"surface":"su","lemma":"su","morphology":"determiner, singular","role":"determiner of frente","gloss":"his"},{"surface":"frente","lemma":"frente","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"subject of arrugaba","gloss":"brow"},{"surface":"se","lemma":"él","morphology":"pronoun, accusative, reflexive","role":"reflexive particle of arrugaba","gloss":"itself"},{"surface":"arrugaba","lemma":"arrugar","morphology":"verb, imperfect, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"was furrowing"}]},{"number":7,"label":"","id":"el-suicida-p1-s7","source":"Y a través de la niebla y de la oscuridad crecía su otra desesperación, el temor sin esperanza de verse perdido como un fantasma a la orilla de un dique de granito.","translation":"And through the fog and the darkness his other despair was growing, the hopeless dread of finding himself lost like a ghost at the edge of a granite breakwater.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p1-s7.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"verse perdido","title":"«verse» + adjective","body":"«verse» (the pronominal of «ver», 'to see') with an adjective means 'to find oneself / end up' in some state: «verse perdido» = 'to find oneself lost'. It describes how the subject perceives his own condition."}],"words":[{"surface":"Y","lemma":"y","morphology":"conjunction","role":"modifies crecía","gloss":"And"},{"surface":"a","lemma":"a","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking niebla","gloss":"through"},{"surface":"través","lemma":"través","morphology":"noun","role":"part of the phrase a","gloss":"across"},{"surface":"de","lemma":"de","morphology":"preposition","role":"part of the phrase a","gloss":"of"},{"surface":"la","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, feminine, singular","role":"determiner of niebla","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"niebla","lemma":"niebla","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"oblique complement of crecía","gloss":"fog"},{"surface":"y","lemma":"y","morphology":"conjunction","role":"links the coordination","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"de","lemma":"de","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking oscuridad","gloss":"of"},{"surface":"la","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, 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gentes","gloss":"blurred"},{"surface":"gentes","lemma":"gente","morphology":"noun, feminine, plural","role":"direct object of llevaban","gloss":"crowds"},{"surface":"hacia","lemma":"hacia","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking emporios","gloss":"toward"},{"surface":"remotos","lemma":"remoto","morphology":"adjective, masculine, plural","role":"modifies emporios","gloss":"remote"},{"surface":"emporios","lemma":"emporio","morphology":"noun, masculine, plural","role":"oblique complement of llevaban","gloss":"trading ports"}]},{"number":10,"label":"","id":"el-suicida-p1-s10","source":"Habían allí, además, una mujer acicalada como una cocotte, con un barboquejo de diamantes y que apoyaba los codos en la mesa de una taberna y se apretaba las mejillas entre los dedos enjoyados.","translation":"There was also a woman done up like a cocotte, with a chin-strap of diamonds, who rested her elbows on a tavern table and pressed her cheeks between her bejeweled fingers.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p1-s10.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"Habían allí","title":"Existential «haber»","body":"Standard grammar keeps existential «haber» invariable: the prescriptive form here is «Había allí». Arlt writes «habían» — a non-standard pluralization of existential «haber», very common in River Plate speech, where the verb is pulled toward the list of things that follow. It is not agreement with «una mujer», which is singular."},{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"cocotte","title":"«cocotte» — a kept woman","body":"A French loanword used in Buenos Aires for a fashionable courtesan or kept woman. Arlt keeps the French spelling to evoke the cosmopolitan, slightly tawdry glamour of the period."}],"words":[{"surface":"Habían","lemma":"haber","morphology":"auxiliary verb, imperfect, indicative, third-person, plural","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"There was","note":"Colloquial: existential 'haber' ('there was/were') is technically invariable ('había'), but is often pluralized to agree with the following noun."},{"surface":"allí","lemma":"allí","morphology":"adverb","role":"modifies Habían","gloss":"there"},{"surface":"además","lemma":"además","morphology":"adverb","role":"modifies Habían","gloss":"also"},{"surface":"una","lemma":"uno","morphology":"determiner, feminine, singular","role":"determiner of mujer","gloss":"a"},{"surface":"mujer","lemma":"mujer","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"subject of Habían","gloss":"woman"},{"surface":"acicalada","lemma":"acicalado","morphology":"adjective, feminine, singular","role":"modifies mujer","gloss":"done 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de sus caras caballunas.","translation":"But since this behavior could not be explained, Erdosain recalled that four young girls had appeared, with dresses down to the knee and tangled yellow hair around their horse-like faces.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p1-s12.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"Mas","title":"«mas» vs. «más»","body":"Without an accent, «mas» is a literary conjunction meaning 'but' (= «pero»). 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tenía","gloss":"blinds"},{"surface":"bajas","lemma":"bajo","morphology":"adjective, feminine, plural","role":"modifies persianas","gloss":"lowered"}]},{"number":18,"label":"","id":"el-suicida-p2-s2","source":"Nadie preguntaba por itinerarios ni estaciones.","translation":"No one asked about timetables or stations.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p2-s2.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"Nadie... ni","title":"Double negation","body":"Spanish uses negatives in series without canceling them: «Nadie... ni... ni» = 'No one... neither... nor'. Where English allows only one negative, Spanish piles them up to reinforce the negation."}],"words":[{"surface":"Nadie","lemma":"nadie","morphology":"pronoun, singular","role":"subject of preguntaba","gloss":"No one"},{"surface":"preguntaba","lemma":"preguntar","morphology":"verb, imperfect, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"asked"},{"surface":"por","lemma":"por","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking itinerarios","gloss":"about"},{"surface":"itinerarios","lemma":"itinerario","morphology":"noun, masculine, plural","role":"direct object of preguntaba","gloss":"timetables"},{"surface":"ni","lemma":"ni","morphology":"conjunction","role":"links the coordination","gloss":"or"},{"surface":"estaciones","lemma":"estación","morphology":"noun, feminine, plural","role":"coordinated with itinerarios","gloss":"stations"}]},{"number":19,"label":"","id":"el-suicida-p2-s3","source":"A veinte pasos de allí, un desierto de polvo extendía su confín oscuro.","translation":"Twenty paces away, a desert of dust stretched out its dark frontier.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p2-s3.m4a","notes":[],"words":[{"surface":"A","lemma":"a","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking pasos","gloss":"At"},{"surface":"veinte","lemma":"veinte","morphology":"numeral, plural","role":"quantifies pasos","gloss":"twenty"},{"surface":"pasos","lemma":"paso","morphology":"noun, masculine, plural","role":"modifies extendía","gloss":"paces"},{"surface":"de","lemma":"de","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking allí","gloss":"from"},{"surface":"allí","lemma":"allí","morphology":"adverb","role":"modifies pasos","gloss":"there"},{"surface":"un","lemma":"uno","morphology":"determiner, masculine, singular","role":"determiner of desierto","gloss":"a"},{"surface":"desierto","lemma":"desierto","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"subject of extendía","gloss":"desert"},{"surface":"de","lemma":"de","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking polvo","gloss":"of"},{"surface":"polvo","lemma":"polvo","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"modifies desierto","gloss":"dust"},{"surface":"extendía","lemma":"extender","morphology":"verb, imperfect, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"stretched"},{"surface":"su","lemma":"su","morphology":"determiner, singular","role":"determiner of confín","gloss":"its"},{"surface":"confín","lemma":"confín","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"direct object of extendía","gloss":"frontier"},{"surface":"oscuro","lemma":"oscuro","morphology":"adjective, masculine, singular","role":"modifies confín","gloss":"dark"}]},{"number":20,"label":"","id":"el-suicida-p2-s4","source":"No se divisaba la locomotora, pero sí escuchó el doloroso rechinar de las cadenas al aflojarse los frenos.","translation":"The locomotive could not be made out, but he did hear the painful screech of the chains as the brakes loosened.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p2-s4.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"No se divisaba","title":"Impersonal / passive «se»","body":"«se» + a verb in the third person forms an impersonal or passive construction: «no se divisaba la locomotora» = 'the locomotive could not be made out / one could not make out the locomotive'. The agent is left unnamed."}],"words":[{"surface":"No","lemma":"no","morphology":"adverb","role":"modifies divisaba","gloss":"Not"},{"surface":"se","lemma":"él","morphology":"pronoun, accusative, reflexive","role":"reflexive particle of divisaba","gloss":"itself"},{"surface":"divisaba","lemma":"divisar","morphology":"verb, imperfect, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"could be made out"},{"surface":"la","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, feminine, singular","role":"determiner of locomotora","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"locomotora","lemma":"locomotora","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"subject of divisaba","gloss":"locomotive"},{"surface":"pero","lemma":"pero","morphology":"conjunction","role":"links the coordination","gloss":"but"},{"surface":"sí","lemma":"sí","morphology":"adverb","role":"modifies escuchó","gloss":"did","note":"This emphatic sí means 'indeed/in fact,' not 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speed.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p2-s5.m4a","notes":[],"words":[{"surface":"Podía","lemma":"poder","morphology":"auxiliary verb, imperfect, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"auxiliary of correr","gloss":"He could"},{"surface":"correr","lemma":"correr","morphology":"verb, infinitive","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"run"},{"surface":"el","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, masculine, singular","role":"determiner of tren","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"tren","lemma":"tren","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"subject of deslizaba","gloss":"train"},{"surface":"se","lemma":"él","morphology":"pronoun, accusative, reflexive","role":"reflexive particle of deslizaba","gloss":"itself"},{"surface":"deslizaba","lemma":"deslizar","morphology":"verb, imperfect, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"adverbial clause on correr","gloss":"was sliding"},{"surface":"despacio","lemma":"despacio","morphology":"adverb","role":"modifies 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cerradas.","translation":"Erdosain was still in time to escape that gray solitude without dark cities... but immobilized by his enormous anguish, he stayed there gazing, with a sob caught in his throat, at the last car with its windows rigorously shut.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p2-s6.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"quedóse","title":"Enclitic pronoun: «quedóse»","body":"«quedóse» = «se quedó», with the reflexive pronoun attached to the verb. «quedarse» ('to stay, remain') is pronominal; the enclitic style is one of Arlt's literary habits. 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que cubría la muralla de niebla, comprendió que se había quedado sólo para siempre en el desierto de ceniza, que el tren no retornaría jamás, que siempre continuaría deslizándose taciturno, con todas las persianas de sus vagones estrictamente cerradas.","translation":"When he saw it enter the curve between the rails that the wall of fog was hiding, he understood that he had been left alone forever in the desert of ash, that the train would never return, that it would go on sliding away in silence forever, with all the blinds of its cars strictly shut.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p3-s1.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"se había quedado","title":"Pluperfect: «se había quedado»","body":"The pluperfect («había» + past participle) marks an action completed before another past moment: 'he had been left' — already true at the instant he understood it. «jamás» reinforces «no retornaría», 'would never 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knees.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p4-s1.m4a","notes":[],"words":[{"surface":"Lentamente","lemma":"lentamente","morphology":"adverb","role":"modifies retiró","gloss":"slowly"},{"surface":"retiró","lemma":"retirar","morphology":"verb, past, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"he lifted"},{"surface":"el","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, masculine, singular","role":"determiner of rostro","gloss":"his"},{"surface":"rostro","lemma":"rostro","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"direct object of retiró","gloss":"face"},{"surface":"de","lemma":"de","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking rodillas","gloss":"from"},{"surface":"las","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, feminine, plural","role":"determiner of rodillas","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"rodillas","lemma":"rodilla","morphology":"noun, feminine, plural","role":"oblique complement of 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Here in the pluperfect, «había dejado de llover» = 'it had stopped raining'."}],"words":[{"surface":"Había","lemma":"haber","morphology":"auxiliary verb, imperfect, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"auxiliary of dejado","gloss":"had"},{"surface":"dejado","lemma":"dejar","morphology":"verb, past, participle, masculine, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"stopped"},{"surface":"de","lemma":"de","morphology":"preposition","role":"part of the idiom 'dejar de' (to stop doing)","gloss":"from"},{"surface":"llover","lemma":"llover","morphology":"verb, infinitive","role":"complement of dejado","gloss":"raining"}]},{"number":26,"label":"","id":"el-suicida-p4-s3","source":"Sus piernas estaban heladas, le dolían las articulaciones.","translation":"His legs were frozen; his joints ached.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p4-s3.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"le dolían las articulaciones","title":"«doler» like «gustar»","body":"«doler» ('to hurt') works like «gustar»: the body part is the grammatical subject and the person is an indirect object. «le dolían las articulaciones» literally is 'the joints hurt to him' = 'his joints ached'. The verb agrees with «articulaciones» (plural), hence «dolían»."}],"words":[{"surface":"Sus","lemma":"su","morphology":"determiner, plural","role":"determiner of piernas","gloss":"his"},{"surface":"piernas","lemma":"pierna","morphology":"noun, feminine, plural","role":"subject of heladas","gloss":"legs"},{"surface":"estaban","lemma":"estar","morphology":"verb, imperfect, indicative, third-person, plural","role":"copula linking to heladas","gloss":"were"},{"surface":"heladas","lemma":"helado","morphology":"adjective, feminine, plural","role":"head of the phrase","gloss":"frozen"},{"surface":"le","lemma":"él","morphology":"pronoun, dative, singular","role":"indirect object of dolían","gloss":"his"},{"surface":"dolían","lemma":"doler","morphology":"verb, imperfect, indicative, third-person, plural","role":"coordinated with estaban","gloss":"ached"},{"surface":"las","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, feminine, plural","role":"determiner of 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Without «de» it can also express supposition: «debe ser cruel» = 'she must be cruel'. The imperfect «debía» softens the obligation into a brooding 'I really should'."}],"words":[{"surface":"Debía","lemma":"deber","morphology":"auxiliary verb, imperfect, indicative, first-person, singular","role":"auxiliary of matarme","gloss":"I ought"},{"surface":"matarme","lemma":"matar yo","morphology":"verb, infinitive","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"kill myself"},{"surface":"Mas","lemma":"mas","morphology":"conjunction","role":"links the coordination","gloss":"But","note":"'Mas' (no accent) is a literary word for 'pero' (but) — not to be confused with 'más' (more)."},{"surface":"al","lemma":"al","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking observar","gloss":"on"},{"surface":"observar","lemma":"observar","morphology":"verb, infinitive","role":"adverbial clause on tomaron","gloss":"noticing"},{"surface":"el","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, masculine, singular","role":"determiner of cabello","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"cabello","lemma":"cabello","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"direct object of observar","gloss":"hair"},{"surface":"rojo","lemma":"rojo","morphology":"adjective, masculine, singular","role":"modifies cabello","gloss":"red"},{"surface":"de","lemma":"de","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking mujer","gloss":"of"},{"surface":"la","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, feminine, singular","role":"determiner of mujer","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"mujer","lemma":"mujer","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"modifies cabello","gloss":"woman"},{"surface":"dormida","lemma":"dormido","morphology":"adjective, feminine, singular","role":"modifies mujer","gloss":"sleeping"},{"surface":"sus","lemma":"su","morphology":"determiner, plural","role":"determiner of ideas","gloss":"his"},{"surface":"ideas","lemma":"idea","morphology":"noun, feminine, plural","role":"subject of tomaron","gloss":"ideas"},{"surface":"tomaron","lemma":"tomar","morphology":"verb, past, indicative, third-person, plural","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"took"},{"surface":"otro","lemma":"otro","morphology":"determiner, masculine, singular","role":"determiner of giro","gloss":"another"},{"surface":"giro","lemma":"giro","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"direct object of tomaron","gloss":"turn"},{"surface":"más","lemma":"más","morphology":"adverb","role":"modifies pesado","gloss":"more"},{"surface":"pesado","lemma":"pesado","morphology":"adjective, masculine, singular","role":"modifies giro","gloss":"heavy"},{"surface":"Debe","lemma":"deber","morphology":"auxiliary verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"auxiliary of cruel","gloss":"she must"},{"surface":"ser","lemma":"ser","morphology":"auxiliary verb, infinitive","role":"copula linking to cruel","gloss":"be"},{"surface":"cruel","lemma":"cruel","morphology":"adjective, singular","role":"head of the phrase","gloss":"cruel"}]},{"number":31,"label":"","id":"el-suicida-p5-s2","source":"Y podría matarla, sin embargo –apretó el cabo del revólver en el bolsillo–.","translation":"And yet I could kill her –he gripped the butt of the revolver in his pocket–.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p5-s2.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"podría","title":"Conditional: «podría»","body":"«podría» is the conditional of «poder» — 'could / would be able to'. The conditional names a hypothetical possibility rather than a fact: 'I could kill her (if I chose to)'."}],"words":[{"surface":"Y","lemma":"y","morphology":"conjunction","role":"links the coordination","gloss":"And"},{"surface":"podría","lemma":"poder","morphology":"auxiliary verb, conditional, first-person, singular","role":"auxiliary of matarla","gloss":"I could"},{"surface":"matarla","lemma":"matar ella","morphology":"verb, infinitive","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"kill her"},{"surface":"sin","lemma":"sin","morphology":"preposition","role":"head of the phrase","gloss":"however"},{"surface":"embargo","lemma":"embargo","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"part of the phrase sin","gloss":"nevertheless","note":"Fixed idiom: 'sin embargo' means 'however, nevertheless' — not 'without embargo.'"},{"surface":"apretó","lemma":"apretar","morphology":"verb, past, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the narrator's parenthetical aside (not coordinated with podría — a person/register shift from the character's 1st-person interior monologue to 3rd-person narration, set off by dashes with no conjunction)","gloss":"he gripped"},{"surface":"el","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, masculine, singular","role":"determiner of cabo","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"cabo","lemma":"cabo","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"direct object of apretó","gloss":"butt"},{"surface":"del","lemma":"del","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking revólver","gloss":"of the"},{"surface":"revólver","lemma":"revólver","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"modifies cabo","gloss":"revolver"},{"surface":"en","lemma":"en","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking bolsillo","gloss":"in"},{"surface":"el","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, masculine, singular","role":"determiner of bolsillo","gloss":"his"},{"surface":"bolsillo","lemma":"bolsillo","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"oblique complement of apretó","gloss":"pocket"}]},{"number":32,"label":"","id":"el-suicida-p5-s3","source":"Bastaría un tiro en el cráneo.","translation":"One shot to the skull would be enough.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p5-s3.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"Bastaría","title":"«bastar» — to be enough","body":"«bastar» means 'to suffice, be enough' and is used impersonally: «basta un tiro» = 'one shot is enough'. In the conditional, «bastaría» = 'would be enough', continuing the hypothetical murder in his mind."}],"words":[{"surface":"Bastaría","lemma":"bastar","morphology":"verb, conditional, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"would be enough"},{"surface":"un","lemma":"uno","morphology":"determiner, masculine, singular","role":"determiner of tiro","gloss":"one"},{"surface":"tiro","lemma":"tiro","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"subject of Bastaría","gloss":"shot"},{"surface":"en","lemma":"en","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking cráneo","gloss":"to"},{"surface":"el","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, masculine, singular","role":"determiner of cráneo","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"cráneo","lemma":"cráneo","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"modifies tiro","gloss":"skull"}]},{"number":33,"label":"","id":"el-suicida-p5-s4","source":"La bala es de acero y sólo haría un agujerito.","translation":"The bullet is steel and would make only a tiny hole.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p5-s4.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"agujerito","title":"Diminutive: «agujerito»","body":"«agujerito» is the diminutive of «agujero» ('hole'). The -ito ending shrinks it to 'a tiny little hole' — chillingly casual given the context, which is part of Arlt's effect."}],"words":[{"surface":"La","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, feminine, singular","role":"determiner of bala","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"bala","lemma":"bala","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"subject of acero","gloss":"bullet"},{"surface":"es","lemma":"ser","morphology":"auxiliary verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"copula linking to acero","gloss":"is"},{"surface":"de","lemma":"de","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking acero","gloss":"of"},{"surface":"acero","lemma":"acero","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"head of the phrase","gloss":"steel"},{"surface":"y","lemma":"y","morphology":"conjunction","role":"links the coordination","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"sólo","lemma":"sólo","morphology":"adverb","role":"modifies haría","gloss":"only"},{"surface":"haría","lemma":"hacer","morphology":"verb, conditional, third-person, singular","role":"coordinated with es","gloss":"would make"},{"surface":"un","lemma":"uno","morphology":"determiner, masculine, singular","role":"determiner of agujerito","gloss":"a"},{"surface":"agujerito","lemma":"agujerito","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"direct object of haría","gloss":"tiny hole"}]},{"number":34,"label":"","id":"el-suicida-p5-s5","source":"Eso si, se le saltarían los ojos de las órbitas y quizá la nariz echara sangre.","translation":"Even so, her eyes would pop out of their sockets, and her nose might bleed.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p5-s5.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"quizá la nariz echara","title":"Subjunctive after «quizá»","body":"«quizá» ('perhaps') can take the subjunctive to stress uncertainty: «echara» (imperfect subjunctive of «echar») = 'might bleed'. The doubt sits inside the verb form."}],"words":[{"surface":"Eso","lemma":"ese","morphology":"pronoun, singular","role":"part of the idiom eso sí","gloss":"that","note":"'Eso sí' is a fixed phrase meaning 'even so / mind you', introducing a qualifying contrast."},{"surface":"si","lemma":"sí","morphology":"interjection","role":"part of the idiom eso sí","gloss":"indeed"},{"surface":"se","lemma":"él","morphology":"pronoun, accusative, reflexive","role":"reflexive particle of saltarían","gloss":"(reflexive)"},{"surface":"le","lemma":"él","morphology":"pronoun, dative, singular","role":"indirect object of saltarían (possession)","gloss":"her"},{"surface":"saltarían","lemma":"saltar","morphology":"verb, conditional, third-person, plural","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"would pop out"},{"surface":"los","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, masculine, plural","role":"determiner of ojos","gloss":"her"},{"surface":"ojos","lemma":"ojo","morphology":"noun, masculine, plural","role":"subject of saltarían","gloss":"eyes"},{"surface":"de","lemma":"de","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking órbitas","gloss":"out of"},{"surface":"las","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, feminine, plural","role":"determiner of órbitas","gloss":"their"},{"surface":"órbitas","lemma":"órbita","morphology":"noun, feminine, plural","role":"modifies ojos","gloss":"sockets"},{"surface":"y","lemma":"y","morphology":"conjunction","role":"links the coordination","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"quizá","lemma":"quizá","morphology":"adverb","role":"modifies echara","gloss":"perhaps"},{"surface":"la","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, feminine, singular","role":"determiner of nariz","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"nariz","lemma":"nariz","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"subject of echara","gloss":"nose"},{"surface":"echara","lemma":"echar","morphology":"verb, imperfect, subjunctive, third-person, singular","role":"coordinated with saltarían","gloss":"would bleed","note":"'Echar sangre' is idiomatic for 'to bleed' (literally 'to throw/pour blood')."},{"surface":"sangre","lemma":"sangre","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"direct object of echara","gloss":"blood"}]},{"number":35,"label":"","id":"el-suicida-p5-s6","source":"¡Pobre alma!","translation":"Poor soul!","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p5-s6.m4a","notes":[],"words":[{"surface":"Pobre","lemma":"pobre","morphology":"adjective, singular","role":"modifies alma","gloss":"poor"},{"surface":"alma","lemma":"alma","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"head of the phrase","gloss":"soul"}]},{"number":36,"label":"","id":"el-suicida-p5-s7","source":"Y debe haber sufrido mucho.","translation":"And she must have suffered a great deal.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p5-s7.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"debe haber sufrido","title":"«deber haber» + participle","body":"«deber» + «haber» + past participle expresses past supposition: «debe haber sufrido» = 'she must have suffered'. It infers about the past from present evidence."}],"words":[{"surface":"Y","lemma":"y","morphology":"conjunction","role":"links the coordination","gloss":"And"},{"surface":"debe","lemma":"deber","morphology":"auxiliary verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"auxiliary of sufrido","gloss":"she must"},{"surface":"haber","lemma":"haber","morphology":"auxiliary verb, infinitive","role":"auxiliary of sufrido","gloss":"have"},{"surface":"sufrido","lemma":"sufrir","morphology":"verb, past, participle, masculine, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"suffered"},{"surface":"mucho","lemma":"mucho","morphology":"adverb","role":"modifies sufrido","gloss":"a great deal"}]},{"number":37,"label":"","id":"el-suicida-p5-s8","source":"Pero debe ser cruel».","translation":"But she must be cruel\".","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p5-s8.m4a","notes":[],"words":[{"surface":"Pero","lemma":"pero","morphology":"conjunction","role":"links the coordination","gloss":"But"},{"surface":"debe","lemma":"deber","morphology":"auxiliary verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"auxiliary of cruel","gloss":"she must"},{"surface":"ser","lemma":"ser","morphology":"auxiliary verb, infinitive","role":"copula linking to cruel","gloss":"be"},{"surface":"cruel","lemma":"cruel","morphology":"adjective, singular","role":"head of the phrase","gloss":"cruel"}]},{"number":38,"label":"6","id":"el-suicida-p6-s1","source":"Una malevolencia cautelosa lo inclinó sobre ella.","translation":"A cautious malevolence bent him over her.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p6-s1.m4a","notes":[],"words":[{"surface":"Una","lemma":"uno","morphology":"determiner, feminine, singular","role":"determiner of malevolencia","gloss":"a"},{"surface":"malevolencia","lemma":"malevolencia","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"subject of inclinó","gloss":"malevolence"},{"surface":"cautelosa","lemma":"cauteloso","morphology":"adjective, feminine, singular","role":"modifies malevolencia","gloss":"cautious"},{"surface":"lo","lemma":"él","morphology":"pronoun, accusative, masculine, singular","role":"direct object of inclinó","gloss":"him"},{"surface":"inclinó","lemma":"inclinar","morphology":"verb, past, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"bent"},{"surface":"sobre","lemma":"sobre","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking ella","gloss":"over"},{"surface":"ella","lemma":"él","morphology":"pronoun, acc,nom, feminine, singular","role":"oblique complement of inclinó","gloss":"her"}]},{"number":39,"label":"","id":"el-suicida-p6-s2","source":"A medida que miraba a la dormida sus ojos adquirían una fijeza de enajenado, mientras con la mano en el bolsillo levantaba el percutor, apretando el gatillo.","translation":"As he watched the sleeping woman, his eyes were taking on the fixed stare of a madman, while with his hand in his pocket he raised the hammer, squeezing the trigger.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p6-s2.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"A medida que","title":"«a medida que» — as / in step with","body":"«a medida que» means 'as / in proportion as', linking two processes that unfold together. It naturally takes the imperfect («miraba», «adquirían») to show both actions developing in parallel."}],"words":[{"surface":"A","lemma":"a","morphology":"preposition","role":"introduces the clause of miraba","gloss":"as","note":"Fixed idiom: 'a medida que' means 'as, in proportion as.'"},{"surface":"medida","lemma":"medida","morphology":"noun","role":"part of the phrase A","gloss":"as"},{"surface":"que","lemma":"que","morphology":"subordinating conjunction","role":"part of the phrase A","gloss":"as"},{"surface":"miraba","lemma":"mirar","morphology":"verb, imperfect, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"adverbial clause on adquirían","gloss":"was watching"},{"surface":"a","lemma":"a","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking dormida (personal a)","gloss":"(marks object)"},{"surface":"la","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, feminine, singular","role":"determiner of dormida","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"dormida","lemma":"dormido","morphology":"adjective, feminine, singular","role":"direct object of miraba","gloss":"sleeping woman"},{"surface":"sus","lemma":"su","morphology":"determiner, plural","role":"determiner of ojos","gloss":"his"},{"surface":"ojos","lemma":"ojo","morphology":"noun, masculine, plural","role":"subject of adquirían","gloss":"eyes"},{"surface":"adquirían","lemma":"adquirir","morphology":"verb, imperfect, indicative, third-person, plural","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"were taking on"},{"surface":"una","lemma":"uno","morphology":"determiner, feminine, singular","role":"determiner of fijeza","gloss":"a"},{"surface":"fijeza","lemma":"fijeza","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"direct object of adquirían","gloss":"fixed stare"},{"surface":"de","lemma":"de","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking enajenado","gloss":"of"},{"surface":"enajenado","lemma":"enajenado","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"modifies fijeza","gloss":"madman"},{"surface":"mientras","lemma":"mientras","morphology":"conjunction","role":"introduces the clause of levantaba","gloss":"while"},{"surface":"con","lemma":"con","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking mano","gloss":"with"},{"surface":"la","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, feminine, singular","role":"determiner of mano","gloss":"his"},{"surface":"mano","lemma":"mano","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"oblique complement of levantaba","gloss":"hand"},{"surface":"en","lemma":"en","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking bolsillo","gloss":"in"},{"surface":"el","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, masculine, singular","role":"determiner of bolsillo","gloss":"his"},{"surface":"bolsillo","lemma":"bolsillo","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"modifies mano","gloss":"pocket"},{"surface":"levantaba","lemma":"levantar","morphology":"verb, imperfect, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"adverbial clause on adquirían","gloss":"raised"},{"surface":"el","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, masculine, singular","role":"determiner of percutor","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"percutor","lemma":"percutor","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"direct object of levantaba","gloss":"hammer"},{"surface":"apretando","lemma":"apretar","morphology":"verb, gerund","role":"adverbial clause on levantaba","gloss":"squeezing"},{"surface":"el","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, masculine, singular","role":"determiner of gatillo","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"gatillo","lemma":"gatillo","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"direct object of apretando","gloss":"trigger"}]},{"number":40,"label":"","id":"el-suicida-p6-s3","source":"Un trueno retumbó a lo lejos, y esa extraña incoherencia que envolvía como un velo su cerebro se apartó de él; entonces con numerosas precauciones cogió su perramus, cerró los postigos evitando que crujieran las bisagras, y salió.","translation":"A thunderclap boomed in the distance, and that strange incoherence which veiled his brain drew away from him; then with great care he took up his raincoat, closed the shutters to keep the hinges from creaking, and went out.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p6-s3.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"evitando que crujieran","title":"Subjunctive after «evitar que»","body":"Verbs of preventing, like «evitar que» ('to keep / prevent from'), take the subjunctive: «crujieran» (imperfect subjunctive of «crujir», 'to creak'). The hinges creaking is the unwanted outcome he acts against, so the verb is subjunctive."}],"words":[{"surface":"Un","lemma":"uno","morphology":"determiner, masculine, singular","role":"determiner of trueno","gloss":"a"},{"surface":"trueno","lemma":"trueno","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"subject of retumbó","gloss":"thunderclap"},{"surface":"retumbó","lemma":"retumbar","morphology":"verb, past, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"boomed"},{"surface":"a","lemma":"a","morphology":"preposition","role":"modifies retumbó","gloss":"in"},{"surface":"lo","lemma":"él","morphology":"pronoun, accusative, masculine, singular","role":"part of the phrase a","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"lejos","lemma":"lejos","morphology":"adverb","role":"part of the phrase a","gloss":"distance"},{"surface":"y","lemma":"y","morphology":"conjunction","role":"links the coordination","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"esa","lemma":"ese","morphology":"determiner, 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Likewise «tener frío» ('to be cold'), «tener sueño» ('to be sleepy')."}],"words":[{"surface":"Al","lemma":"al","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking bajar","gloss":"as"},{"surface":"bajar","lemma":"bajar","morphology":"verb, infinitive","role":"adverbial clause on reconoció","gloss":"went down"},{"surface":"las","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, feminine, plural","role":"determiner of escaleras","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"escaleras","lemma":"escalera","morphology":"noun, feminine, plural","role":"direct object of bajar","gloss":"stairs"},{"surface":"reconoció","lemma":"reconocer","morphology":"verb, past, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"he realized"},{"surface":"con","lemma":"con","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking alegría","gloss":"with"},{"surface":"alegría","lemma":"alegría","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"oblique complement of reconoció","gloss":"joy"},{"surface":"que","lemma":"que","morphology":"subordinating conjunction","role":"introduces the clause of tenía","gloss":"that"},{"surface":"tenía","lemma":"tener","morphology":"verb, imperfect, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"clausal complement of reconoció","gloss":"had"},{"surface":"hambre","lemma":"hambre","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"direct object of tenía","gloss":"hunger"}]},{"number":42,"label":"8","id":"el-suicida-p8-s1","source":"Se dirigió a una de las tantas churrasquerías que hay junto al mercado Spineto, y apresuradamente recorrió algunas cuadras.","translation":"He headed for one of the many grill-houses near the Spineto market, and hurriedly walked a few blocks.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p8-s1.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"cuadras","title":"«cuadra» — a city block","body":"In Latin American Spanish a «cuadra» is a 'city block' (the stretch of street between two corners). In Spain the usual word is «manzana». «churrasquería» is a steakhouse or grill-house, central to Argentine eating life."}],"words":[{"surface":"Se","lemma":"él","morphology":"pronoun, accusative, reflexive","role":"reflexive particle of dirigió","gloss":"himself"},{"surface":"dirigió","lemma":"dirigir","morphology":"verb, past, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"he headed"},{"surface":"a","lemma":"a","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking una","gloss":"to"},{"surface":"una","lemma":"uno","morphology":"pronoun, feminine, singular","role":"oblique complement of dirigió","gloss":"one"},{"surface":"de","lemma":"de","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking churrasquerías","gloss":"of"},{"surface":"las","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, feminine, plural","role":"determiner of churrasquerías","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"tantas","lemma":"tanto","morphology":"determiner, feminine, plural","role":"quantifies 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granito.","translation":"The moon rolled over the violet crest of a cloud; the sidewalks here and there, under the moonlight, looked as if sheeted in zinc; the puddles glittered with depths of dead silver, and with a whirling murmur the water ran, licking the granite curbstones.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p9-s1.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"veredas","title":"«vereda» — sidewalk","body":"In the River Plate and much of South America, «vereda» means 'sidewalk / pavement'; in Spain it instead means 'path' and the sidewalk is the «acera». «diríanse» = «se dirían» ('one would say / they looked like'), enclitic again."}],"words":[{"surface":"Rodaba","lemma":"rodar","morphology":"verb, imperfect, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the first clause","gloss":"rolled"},{"surface":"la","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, feminine, singular","role":"determiner of 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on corría","gloss":"licking"},{"surface":"los","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, masculine, plural","role":"determiner of cordones","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"cordones","lemma":"cordón","morphology":"noun, masculine, plural","role":"direct object of lamiendo","gloss":"curbstones"},{"surface":"de","lemma":"de","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking granito","gloss":"of"},{"surface":"granito","lemma":"granito","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"modifies cordones","gloss":"granite"}]},{"number":44,"label":"","id":"el-suicida-p9-s2","source":"Tan mojada estaba la calzada, que los adoquines parecían soldados por reciente fundición de estaño.","translation":"So wet was the roadway that the cobblestones seemed welded by a fresh casting of tin.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p9-s2.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"Tan... que","title":"«tan... que» — so... that","body":"«tan» + adjective + «que» expresses degree and result: «tan mojada estaba... que» = 'it was so wet... that'. Fronting «tan mojada» before the verb is a literary inversion for emphasis."}],"words":[{"surface":"Tan","lemma":"tanto","morphology":"adverb","role":"modifies mojada","gloss":"so"},{"surface":"mojada","lemma":"mojado","morphology":"adjective, feminine, singular","role":"predicate complement of estaba, describing calzada","gloss":"wet"},{"surface":"estaba","lemma":"estar","morphology":"auxiliary verb, imperfect, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"copula linking to mojada","gloss":"was"},{"surface":"la","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, feminine, singular","role":"determiner of calzada","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"calzada","lemma":"calzada","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"subject of mojada","gloss":"roadway"},{"surface":"que","lemma":"que","morphology":"subordinating conjunction","role":"introduces the clause of parecían","gloss":"that"},{"surface":"los","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, masculine, plural","role":"determiner of adoquines","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"adoquines","lemma":"adoquín","morphology":"noun, masculine, plural","role":"subject of parecían","gloss":"cobblestones"},{"surface":"parecían","lemma":"parecer","morphology":"verb, imperfect, indicative, third-person, plural","role":"main verb of the result clause introduced by que","gloss":"seemed"},{"surface":"soldados","lemma":"soldar","morphology":"verb, past, participle, masculine, plural","role":"predicate complement of parecían","gloss":"welded","note":"False friend: soldados here is the past participle of soldar (\"to weld\"), not the noun for \"soldiers.\""},{"surface":"por","lemma":"por","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking fundición","gloss":"by"},{"surface":"reciente","lemma":"reciente","morphology":"adjective, singular","role":"modifies fundición","gloss":"fresh"},{"surface":"fundición","lemma":"fundición","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"object of por, modifies soldados","gloss":"casting"},{"surface":"de","lemma":"de","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking estaño","gloss":"of"},{"surface":"estaño","lemma":"estaño","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"modifies fundición","gloss":"tin"}]},{"number":45,"label":"10","id":"el-suicida-p10-s1","source":"Erdosain entraba y salía de las sombras celestes que oblicuamente cortaban las fachadas.","translation":"Erdosain passed in and out of the sky-blue shadows that slanted across the façades.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p10-s1.m4a","notes":[],"words":[{"surface":"Erdosain","lemma":"Erdosain","morphology":"proper noun","role":"subject of entraba","gloss":"Erdosain"},{"surface":"entraba","lemma":"entrar","morphology":"verb, imperfect, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"entered"},{"surface":"y","lemma":"y","morphology":"conjunction","role":"links the coordination","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"salía","lemma":"salir","morphology":"verb, imperfect, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"coordinated with entraba","gloss":"went out"},{"surface":"de","lemma":"de","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking sombras","gloss":"from"},{"surface":"las","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, feminine, plural","role":"determiner of sombras","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"sombras","lemma":"sombra","morphology":"noun, feminine, plural","role":"oblique complement of entraba","gloss":"shadows"},{"surface":"celestes","lemma":"celeste","morphology":"adjective, plural","role":"modifies sombras","gloss":"sky-blue"},{"surface":"que","lemma":"que","morphology":"pronoun","role":"subject of cortaban","gloss":"that"},{"surface":"oblicuamente","lemma":"oblicuamente","morphology":"adverb","role":"modifies cortaban","gloss":"obliquely"},{"surface":"cortaban","lemma":"cortar","morphology":"verb, imperfect, indicative, third-person, plural","role":"clause modifying sombras","gloss":"cut across"},{"surface":"las","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, feminine, plural","role":"determiner of fachadas","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"fachadas","lemma":"fachada","morphology":"noun, feminine, plural","role":"direct object of cortaban","gloss":"façades"}]},{"number":46,"label":"","id":"el-suicida-p10-s2","source":"El olor a mojado comunicaba a la soledad matutina cierta desolación marítima.","translation":"The smell of wetness lent the morning solitude a certain seaside desolation.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p10-s2.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"olor a mojado","title":"«olor a» — smell of","body":"To say what something smells of, Spanish uses «olor a» + noun: «olor a mojado» = 'smell of wetness / of damp'. The preposition is always «a», never «de», after «olor»."}],"words":[{"surface":"El","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, masculine, singular","role":"determiner of olor","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"olor","lemma":"olor","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"subject of comunicaba","gloss":"smell"},{"surface":"a","lemma":"a","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking mojado","gloss":"of"},{"surface":"mojado","lemma":"mojado","morphology":"adjective (used as noun), masculine, singular","role":"object of a, modifies olor","gloss":"wetness","note":"mojado here is used as a noun meaning \"wetness/dampness,\" not attributively."},{"surface":"comunicaba","lemma":"comunicar","morphology":"verb, imperfect, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"lent"},{"surface":"a","lemma":"a","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking soledad","gloss":"to"},{"surface":"la","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, feminine, 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mind.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p11-s1.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"en sus cabales","title":"«estar en sus cabales» — to be in one's right mind","body":"«estar en sus cabales» is an idiom meaning 'to be of sound mind, in full possession of one's senses'. «no se encontraba en sus cabales» = 'he was not in his right mind'."}],"words":[{"surface":"Indudablemente","lemma":"indudablemente","morphology":"adverb","role":"modifies encontraba","gloss":"undoubtedly"},{"surface":"no","lemma":"no","morphology":"adverb","role":"modifies encontraba","gloss":"not"},{"surface":"se","lemma":"él","morphology":"pronoun, accusative, reflexive","role":"reflexive particle of encontraba","gloss":"himself"},{"surface":"encontraba","lemma":"encontrar","morphology":"verb, imperfect, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"was"},{"surface":"en","lemma":"en","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking 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vomitaba la puerta amarilla de una lechería, le causó náuseas, y entonces, cambiando de idea, se dirigió a un prostíbulo que recordó había en la calle Paso, más cuando llegó, la puerta estaba ya cerrada y desconcertado, tiritando de frío, la boca con sabor a sulfato de cobre, entró a un café donde acababan de levantar las cortinas metálicas.","translation":"The heavy stench of burnt oil belching from the yellow door of a dairy shop turned his stomach, and so, changing his mind, he headed for a brothel he remembered there being on Calle Paso; but when he arrived, the door was already shut, and bewildered, shivering with cold, his mouth tasting of copper sulfate, he went into a café where the metal shutters had just been raised.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p11-s3.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"acababan de levantar","title":"«acabar de» — to have just done","body":"«acabar de» + infinitive means 'to have just done something': «acababan de levantar las 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In the imperfect it sets a just-completed action as backdrop."}],"words":[{"surface":"El","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, masculine, singular","role":"determiner of hedor","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"pesado","lemma":"pesado","morphology":"adjective, masculine, singular","role":"modifies hedor","gloss":"heavy"},{"surface":"hedor","lemma":"hedor","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"subject of causó","gloss":"stench"},{"surface":"de","lemma":"de","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking aceite","gloss":"of"},{"surface":"aceite","lemma":"aceite","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"modifies hedor","gloss":"oil"},{"surface":"quemado","lemma":"quemado","morphology":"adjective, masculine, singular","role":"modifies aceite","gloss":"burnt"},{"surface":"que","lemma":"que","morphology":"pronoun","role":"direct object of vomitaba","gloss":"that"},{"surface":"vomitaba","lemma":"vomitar","morphology":"verb, imperfect, indicative, third-person, 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Compare «pensar de» ('to have an opinion about') and «pensar que» ('to think that'). Here the preposition «en» gives 'thought about the woman'."}],"words":[{"surface":"Pensó","lemma":"pensar","morphology":"verb, past, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"thought"},{"surface":"en","lemma":"en","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking mujer","gloss":"about"},{"surface":"la","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, feminine, singular","role":"determiner of mujer","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"mujer","lemma":"mujer","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"oblique complement of Pensó","gloss":"woman"},{"surface":"dormida","lemma":"dormido","morphology":"adjective, feminine, singular","role":"modifies mujer","gloss":"sleeping"}]},{"number":52,"label":"","id":"el-suicida-p12-s2","source":"Entrecerró los ojos, y apoyando la cabeza en el muro, se entregó con más desconsuelo a sus penas.","translation":"He half-closed his eyes, and resting his head against the wall, he gave himself over with deeper despondency to his sorrows.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p12-s2.m4a","notes":[],"words":[{"surface":"Entrecerró","lemma":"entrecerrar","morphology":"verb, past, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"half-closed"},{"surface":"los","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, masculine, plural","role":"determiner of ojos","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"ojos","lemma":"ojo","morphology":"noun, masculine, plural","role":"direct object of Entrecerró","gloss":"eyes"},{"surface":"y","lemma":"y","morphology":"conjunction","role":"links the coordination","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"apoyando","lemma":"apoyar","morphology":"verb, gerund","role":"adverbial clause on entregó","gloss":"resting"},{"surface":"la","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, feminine, singular","role":"determiner of cabeza","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"cabeza","lemma":"cabeza","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"direct object of apoyando","gloss":"head"},{"surface":"en","lemma":"en","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking muro","gloss":"against"},{"surface":"el","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, masculine, singular","role":"determiner of muro","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"muro","lemma":"muro","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"oblique complement of apoyando","gloss":"wall"},{"surface":"se","lemma":"él","morphology":"pronoun, accusative, reflexive","role":"reflexive particle of entregó","gloss":"himself"},{"surface":"entregó","lemma":"entregar","morphology":"verb, past, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"coordinated with Entrecerró","gloss":"gave over"},{"surface":"con","lemma":"con","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking desconsuelo","gloss":"with"},{"surface":"más","lemma":"más","morphology":"adverb","role":"modifies desconsuelo","gloss":"more"},{"surface":"desconsuelo","lemma":"desconsuelo","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"oblique complement of entregó","gloss":"despondency"},{"surface":"a","lemma":"a","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking penas","gloss":"to"},{"surface":"sus","lemma":"su","morphology":"determiner, plural","role":"determiner of penas","gloss":"his"},{"surface":"penas","lemma":"pena","morphology":"noun, feminine, plural","role":"oblique complement of entregó","gloss":"sorrows"}]},{"number":53,"label":"13","id":"el-suicida-p13-s1","source":"No sufría por él, el hombre inscripto con un nombre en el registro civil, sino que su conciencia, apartándose del cuerpo, lo miraba como al de un extraño, y se decía:","translation":"He did not suffer for himself — the man entered under a name in the civil registry — but rather his consciousness, drawing apart from the body, looked at it as at a stranger's, and said to itself:","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p13-s1.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"no... sino que","title":"«sino que» — but rather","body":"After a negative, 'but' is «sino» (not «pero») when it corrects or replaces: 'not X but rather Y'. Before a full conjugated clause, it becomes «sino que»: «no sufría... sino que su conciencia... lo miraba»."}],"words":[{"surface":"No","lemma":"no","morphology":"adverb","role":"modifies sufría","gloss":"not"},{"surface":"sufría","lemma":"sufrir","morphology":"verb, imperfect, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"suffered"},{"surface":"por","lemma":"por","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking él","gloss":"for"},{"surface":"él","lemma":"él","morphology":"pronoun, masculine, singular","role":"oblique complement of sufría","gloss":"himself"},{"surface":"el","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, masculine, singular","role":"determiner of hombre","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"hombre","lemma":"hombre","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"in apposition to él","gloss":"man"},{"surface":"inscripto","lemma":"inscripto","morphology":"adjective, masculine, singular","role":"modifies hombre","gloss":"registered"},{"surface":"con","lemma":"con","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking nombre","gloss":"under"},{"surface":"un","lemma":"uno","morphology":"determiner, masculine, singular","role":"determiner of nombre","gloss":"a"},{"surface":"nombre","lemma":"nombre","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"oblique complement of inscripto","gloss":"name"},{"surface":"en","lemma":"en","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking registro","gloss":"in"},{"surface":"el","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, masculine, singular","role":"determiner of registro","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"registro","lemma":"registro","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"oblique complement of inscripto","gloss":"registry"},{"surface":"civil","lemma":"civil","morphology":"adjective, singular","role":"modifies registro","gloss":"civil"},{"surface":"sino","lemma":"sino","morphology":"conjunction","role":"links the coordination","gloss":"but"},{"surface":"que","lemma":"que","morphology":"subordinating conjunction","role":"part of the phrase sino","gloss":"rather"},{"surface":"su","lemma":"su","morphology":"determiner, singular","role":"determiner of conciencia","gloss":"his"},{"surface":"conciencia","lemma":"conciencia","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"subject of miraba","gloss":"consciousness"},{"surface":"apartándose","lemma":"apartar","morphology":"verb, gerund, with enclitic reflexive pronoun se","role":"adverbial clause on miraba","gloss":"drawing apart"},{"surface":"del","lemma":"del","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking cuerpo","gloss":"from"},{"surface":"cuerpo","lemma":"cuerpo","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"direct object of apartándose","gloss":"body"},{"surface":"lo","lemma":"él","morphology":"pronoun, accusative, masculine, singular","role":"direct object of miraba","gloss":"it"},{"surface":"miraba","lemma":"mirar","morphology":"verb, imperfect, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"coordinated with sufría","gloss":"looked at"},{"surface":"como","lemma":"como","morphology":"subordinating conjunction","role":"introduces the clause of extraño","gloss":"as"},{"surface":"al","lemma":"al","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking extraño","gloss":"at"},{"surface":"de","lemma":"de","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking extraño","gloss":"of"},{"surface":"un","lemma":"uno","morphology":"determiner, masculine, singular","role":"determiner of extraño","gloss":"a"},{"surface":"extraño","lemma":"extraño","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"oblique complement of miraba","gloss":"stranger"},{"surface":"y","lemma":"y","morphology":"conjunction","role":"links the coordination","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"se","lemma":"él","morphology":"pronoun, accusative, reflexive","role":"reflexive particle of decía","gloss":"itself"},{"surface":"decía","lemma":"decir","morphology":"verb, imperfect, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"coordinated with miraba","gloss":"said"}]},{"number":54,"label":"14","id":"el-suicida-p14-s1","source":"–¿Quién tendrá piedad del hombre?","translation":"–Who will have pity on man?","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p14-s1.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"tendrá","title":"Future of «tener»","body":"«tendrá» is the irregular future of «tener» ('to have'). The future here is rhetorical and anguished — 'who will (ever) have pity?' — rather than a literal prediction."}],"words":[{"surface":"Quién","lemma":"quién","morphology":"pronoun, singular","role":"subject of tendrá","gloss":"who"},{"surface":"tendrá","lemma":"tener","morphology":"verb, future, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"will have"},{"surface":"piedad","lemma":"piedad","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"direct object of tendrá","gloss":"pity"},{"surface":"del","lemma":"del","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking hombre","gloss":"on"},{"surface":"hombre","lemma":"hombre","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"modifies piedad","gloss":"man"}]},{"number":55,"label":"15","id":"el-suicida-p15-s1","source":"Y estas palabras, que acertaba a recoger su pensamiento, lo turbaban llenándolo de dolorosa ternura por invisibles prójimos.","translation":"And these words, which his mind managed to gather up, troubled him, filling him with a painful tenderness for invisible fellow men.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p15-s1.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"acertaba a recoger","title":"«acertar a» + infinitive","body":"«acertar a» + infinitive means 'to manage / happen to do something': «acertaba a recoger» = 'managed to gather up'. It conveys a not-quite-deliberate success, fitting his dazed state."}],"words":[{"surface":"Y","lemma":"y","morphology":"conjunction","role":"links the coordination","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"estas","lemma":"este","morphology":"determiner, feminine, plural","role":"determiner of palabras","gloss":"these"},{"surface":"palabras","lemma":"palabra","morphology":"noun, feminine, plural","role":"subject of turbaban","gloss":"words"},{"surface":"que","lemma":"que","morphology":"pronoun","role":"direct object of recoger","gloss":"which"},{"surface":"acertaba","lemma":"acertar","morphology":"verb, imperfect, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"clause modifying palabras","gloss":"managed"},{"surface":"a","lemma":"a","morphology":"preposition","role":"introduces the clause of recoger","gloss":"to"},{"surface":"recoger","lemma":"recoger","morphology":"verb, infinitive","role":"complement of acertaba","gloss":"gather"},{"surface":"su","lemma":"su","morphology":"determiner, singular","role":"determiner of pensamiento","gloss":"his"},{"surface":"pensamiento","lemma":"pensamiento","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"subject of acertaba","gloss":"mind"},{"surface":"lo","lemma":"él","morphology":"pronoun, accusative, masculine, singular","role":"direct object of turbaban","gloss":"him"},{"surface":"turbaban","lemma":"turbar","morphology":"verb, imperfect, indicative, third-person, plural","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"troubled"},{"surface":"llenándolo","lemma":"llenar","morphology":"verb, gerund, with enclitic pronoun lo (direct object)","role":"adverbial clause on turbaban","gloss":"filling"},{"surface":"de","lemma":"de","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking ternura","gloss":"with"},{"surface":"dolorosa","lemma":"doloroso","morphology":"adjective, feminine, singular","role":"modifies ternura","gloss":"painful"},{"surface":"ternura","lemma":"ternura","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"oblique complement 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caer","gloss":"ever"},{"surface":"más","lemma":"más","morphology":"adverb","role":"modifies bajo","gloss":"more"},{"surface":"bajo","lemma":"bajo","morphology":"adjective, masculine, singular","role":"modifies caer","gloss":"low"}]},{"number":57,"label":"","id":"el-suicida-p16-s2","source":"Y sin embargo, otros hombres son felices, encuentran el amor, pero todos sufren.","translation":"And yet other men are happy, they find love, but everyone suffers.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p16-s2.m4a","notes":[],"words":[{"surface":"Y","lemma":"y","morphology":"conjunction","role":"links the coordination","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"sin","lemma":"sin","morphology":"preposition","role":"modifies felices","gloss":"however","note":"\"sin embargo\" is a fixed phrase meaning \"however, nevertheless\" — not literally \"without embargo.\""},{"surface":"embargo","lemma":"embargo","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"part of the phrase 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encuentran","gloss":"love"},{"surface":"pero","lemma":"pero","morphology":"conjunction","role":"links the coordination","gloss":"but"},{"surface":"todos","lemma":"todo","morphology":"pronoun, masculine, plural","role":"subject of sufren","gloss":"everyone"},{"surface":"sufren","lemma":"sufrir","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, plural","role":"coordinated with encuentran","gloss":"suffer"}]},{"number":58,"label":"","id":"el-suicida-p16-s3","source":"Lo que ocurre es que unos se dan cuenta y otros no.","translation":"What happens is that some realize it and others don't.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p16-s3.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"se dan cuenta","title":"«darse cuenta» — to realize","body":"«darse cuenta (de)» is a fixed pronominal idiom meaning 'to realize, become aware'. «unos se dan cuenta» = 'some realize it'. Do not confuse it with «dar cuenta de» ('to account for / finish off')."}],"words":[{"surface":"Lo","lemma":"él","morphology":"pronoun, neuter, singular","role":"part of the phrase lo que","gloss":"what"},{"surface":"que","lemma":"que","morphology":"pronoun","role":"subject of ocurre","gloss":"that"},{"surface":"ocurre","lemma":"ocurrir","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"depends on es","gloss":"happens"},{"surface":"es","lemma":"ser","morphology":"auxiliary verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"is"},{"surface":"que","lemma":"que","morphology":"subordinating conjunction","role":"introduces the clause of dan","gloss":"that"},{"surface":"unos","lemma":"uno","morphology":"pronoun, masculine, plural","role":"subject of dan","gloss":"some"},{"surface":"se","lemma":"él","morphology":"pronoun, dative, reflexive","role":"reflexive particle of dan","gloss":"themselves"},{"surface":"dan","lemma":"dar","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, plural","role":"clausal complement of es","gloss":"realize"},{"surface":"cuenta","lemma":"cuenta","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"compound with dan","gloss":"it","note":"\"darse cuenta\" is an idiom meaning \"to realize/notice.\""},{"surface":"y","lemma":"y","morphology":"conjunction","role":"links the coordination","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"otros","lemma":"otro","morphology":"pronoun, masculine, plural","role":"coordinated with unos","gloss":"others"},{"surface":"no","lemma":"no","morphology":"adverb","role":"modifies otros","gloss":"don't"}]},{"number":59,"label":"","id":"el-suicida-p16-s4","source":"Algunos lo atribuyen a lo que no tienen.","translation":"Some attribute it to what they do not have.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p16-s4.m4a","notes":[],"words":[{"surface":"Algunos","lemma":"alguno","morphology":"pronoun, masculine, plural","role":"subject of atribuyen","gloss":"some"},{"surface":"lo","lemma":"él","morphology":"pronoun, accusative, masculine, singular","role":"direct object of atribuyen","gloss":"it"},{"surface":"atribuyen","lemma":"atribuir","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, plural","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"attribute"},{"surface":"a","lemma":"a","morphology":"preposition","role":"introduces the clause of tienen","gloss":"to"},{"surface":"lo","lemma":"él","morphology":"pronoun, neuter, singular","role":"part of the phrase lo que","gloss":"what"},{"surface":"que","lemma":"que","morphology":"pronoun","role":"direct object of tienen","gloss":"that"},{"surface":"no","lemma":"no","morphology":"adverb","role":"modifies tienen","gloss":"not"},{"surface":"tienen","lemma":"tener","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, plural","role":"clausal complement of atribuyen","gloss":"have"}]},{"number":60,"label":"","id":"el-suicida-p16-s5","source":"Pero qué sueño estúpido ése.","translation":"But what a stupid dream that is.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p16-s5.m4a","notes":[],"words":[{"surface":"Pero","lemma":"pero","morphology":"conjunction","role":"connects the sentence to what precedes","gloss":"But"},{"surface":"qué","lemma":"qué","morphology":"determiner","role":"determiner of sueño","gloss":"what"},{"surface":"sueño","lemma":"sueño","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"head of the phrase","gloss":"dream"},{"surface":"estúpido","lemma":"estúpido","morphology":"adjective, masculine, singular","role":"modifies sueño","gloss":"stupid"},{"surface":"ése","lemma":"ese","morphology":"pronoun, masculine, singular","role":"in apposition to sueño","gloss":"that"}]},{"number":61,"label":"","id":"el-suicida-p16-s6","source":"Sin embargo, la cara de ella era linda.","translation":"Still, her face was pretty.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p16-s6.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"linda","title":"«lindo/a» — pretty","body":"«lindo/a» means 'pretty, lovely, nice' and is far more common in Latin America (especially the River Plate) than in Spain, where «bonito» or «guapo» dominate. A small marker of the Argentine register."}],"words":[{"surface":"Sin","lemma":"sin","morphology":"preposition","role":"part of the fixed phrase Sin embargo","gloss":"Still"},{"surface":"embargo","lemma":"embargo","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"part of the phrase Sin","gloss":"still"},{"surface":"la","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, feminine, singular","role":"determiner of cara","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"cara","lemma":"cara","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"subject of era","gloss":"face"},{"surface":"de","lemma":"de","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking ella","gloss":"of"},{"surface":"ella","lemma":"él","morphology":"pronoun, acc,nom, feminine, singular","role":"modifies cara","gloss":"her"},{"surface":"era","lemma":"ser","morphology":"auxiliary verb, imperfect, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"copula linking to linda","gloss":"was"},{"surface":"linda","lemma":"lindo","morphology":"adjective, feminine, singular","role":"head of the phrase","gloss":"pretty"}]},{"number":62,"label":"","id":"el-suicida-p16-s7","source":"Lo que tenía de lógica era lo que decía respecto al príncipe aventurero.","translation":"What there was of logic in her was what she said about the adventuring prince.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p16-s7.m4a","notes":[],"words":[{"surface":"Lo","lemma":"él","morphology":"pronoun, accusative, masculine, singular","role":"part of the relative phrase lo que, direct object of tenía","gloss":"what"},{"surface":"que","lemma":"que","morphology":"pronoun","role":"direct object of tenía","gloss":"that"},{"surface":"tenía","lemma":"tener","morphology":"verb, imperfect, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"subject clause of era","gloss":"had"},{"surface":"de","lemma":"de","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking lógica","gloss":"of"},{"surface":"lógica","lemma":"lógica","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"oblique complement of tenía","gloss":"logic"},{"surface":"era","lemma":"ser","morphology":"auxiliary verb, imperfect, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"was"},{"surface":"lo","lemma":"él","morphology":"pronoun, accusative, masculine, singular","role":"part of the relative phrase lo que, direct object of decía","gloss":"what"},{"surface":"que","lemma":"que","morphology":"pronoun","role":"direct object of decía","gloss":"that"},{"surface":"decía","lemma":"decir","morphology":"verb, imperfect, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"predicate clause of era","gloss":"said"},{"surface":"respecto","lemma":"respecto","morphology":"noun","role":"preposition marking príncipe","gloss":"regarding"},{"surface":"al","lemma":"al","morphology":"determiner, masculine, singular","role":"determiner of príncipe","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"príncipe","lemma":"príncipe","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"oblique complement of decía","gloss":"prince"},{"surface":"aventurero","lemma":"aventurero","morphology":"adjective, masculine, singular","role":"modifies príncipe","gloss":"adventuring"}]},{"number":63,"label":"","id":"el-suicida-p16-s8","source":"¡Ah! poder dormir en el fondo del mar, en una pieza de plomo con vidrios gruesos.","translation":"Ah! to be able to sleep at the bottom of the sea, in a room of lead with thick glass.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p16-s8.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"pieza","title":"«pieza» — room","body":"In River Plate Spanish «pieza» commonly means 'room / bedroom' (a use that sounds dated or regional elsewhere). Here it is the imagined lead chamber on the sea floor."}],"words":[{"surface":"Ah","lemma":"ah","morphology":"interjection","role":"interjection, independent of the clause","gloss":"Ah"},{"surface":"poder","lemma":"poder","morphology":"auxiliary verb, infinitive","role":"auxiliary of dormir","gloss":"to be able"},{"surface":"dormir","lemma":"dormir","morphology":"verb, infinitive","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"sleep"},{"surface":"en","lemma":"en","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking fondo","gloss":"at"},{"surface":"el","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, masculine, singular","role":"determiner of fondo","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"fondo","lemma":"fondo","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"oblique complement of dormir","gloss":"bottom"},{"surface":"del","lemma":"del","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking mar","gloss":"of the"},{"surface":"mar","lemma":"mar","morphology":"noun, singular","role":"modifies fondo","gloss":"sea"},{"surface":"en","lemma":"en","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking pieza","gloss":"in"},{"surface":"una","lemma":"uno","morphology":"determiner, feminine, singular","role":"determiner of pieza","gloss":"a"},{"surface":"pieza","lemma":"pieza","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"oblique complement of dormir","gloss":"room"},{"surface":"de","lemma":"de","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking plomo","gloss":"of"},{"surface":"plomo","lemma":"plomo","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"modifies pieza","gloss":"lead"},{"surface":"con","lemma":"con","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking vidrios","gloss":"with"},{"surface":"vidrios","lemma":"vidrio","morphology":"noun, masculine, plural","role":"modifies pieza","gloss":"glass"},{"surface":"gruesos","lemma":"grueso","morphology":"adjective, masculine, plural","role":"modifies vidrios","gloss":"thick"}]},{"number":64,"label":"","id":"el-suicida-p16-s9","source":"Dormir años y años mientras la arena se amontona, y dormir.","translation":"To sleep years and years while the sand piles up, and to sleep.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p16-s9.m4a","notes":[],"words":[{"surface":"Dormir","lemma":"dormir","morphology":"verb, infinitive","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"To sleep"},{"surface":"años","lemma":"año","morphology":"noun, masculine, plural","role":"modifies Dormir","gloss":"years"},{"surface":"y","lemma":"y","morphology":"conjunction","role":"links the coordination","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"años","lemma":"año","morphology":"noun, masculine, plural","role":"coordinated with años","gloss":"years"},{"surface":"mientras","lemma":"mientras","morphology":"subordinating conjunction","role":"introduces the clause of amontona","gloss":"while"},{"surface":"la","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, feminine, singular","role":"determiner of arena","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"arena","lemma":"arena","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"subject of amontona","gloss":"sand"},{"surface":"se","lemma":"él","morphology":"pronoun, accusative, reflexive","role":"reflexive particle of amontona","gloss":"up"},{"surface":"amontona","lemma":"amontonar","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"adverbial clause on Dormir","gloss":"piles"},{"surface":"y","lemma":"y","morphology":"conjunction","role":"links the coordination","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"dormir","lemma":"dormir","morphology":"verb, infinitive","role":"coordinated with Dormir","gloss":"to sleep"}]},{"number":65,"label":"","id":"el-suicida-p16-s10","source":"Por eso tiene razón el Astrólogo.","translation":"That is why the Astrologer is right.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p16-s10.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"tiene razón","title":"«tener razón» — to be right","body":"«tener razón» (literally 'to have reason') is the idiom for 'to be right / correct'. «el Astrólogo tiene razón» = 'the Astrologer is right'. The opposite is «no tener razón» ('to be wrong')."}],"words":[{"surface":"Por","lemma":"por","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking eso","gloss":"for"},{"surface":"eso","lemma":"ese","morphology":"pronoun, singular","role":"oblique complement of tiene","gloss":"that"},{"surface":"tiene","lemma":"tener","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"is","note":"Tener razón is an idiom meaning 'to be right' (literally 'to have reason')."},{"surface":"razón","lemma":"razón","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"direct object of tiene","gloss":"right"},{"surface":"el","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, masculine, singular","role":"determiner of Astrólogo","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"Astrólogo","lemma":"Astrólogo","morphology":"proper noun","role":"subject of tiene","gloss":"Astrologer"}]},{"number":66,"label":"","id":"el-suicida-p16-s11","source":"Día vendrá en que la gente hará la revolución, porque les falta un Dios.","translation":"A day will come when people will make the revolution, because they lack a God.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p16-s11.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"les falta un Dios","title":"«faltar» like «gustar»","body":"«faltar» ('to be lacking / missing') patterns like «gustar»: the thing lacking is the subject, the person an indirect object. «les falta un Dios» = literally 'a God is lacking to them' = 'they lack a God'."}],"words":[{"surface":"Día","lemma":"día","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"subject of vendrá","gloss":"A day"},{"surface":"vendrá","lemma":"venir","morphology":"verb, future, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"will come"},{"surface":"en","lemma":"en","morphology":"preposition","role":"introduces the clause of hará","gloss":"when"},{"surface":"que","lemma":"que","morphology":"subordinating conjunction","role":"introduces the clause of hará","gloss":"when"},{"surface":"la","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, feminine, singular","role":"determiner of gente","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"gente","lemma":"gente","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"subject of hará","gloss":"people"},{"surface":"hará","lemma":"hacer","morphology":"verb, future, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"adverbial clause on vendrá","gloss":"will make"},{"surface":"la","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, feminine, singular","role":"determiner of revolución","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"revolución","lemma":"revolución","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"direct object of hará","gloss":"revolution"},{"surface":"porque","lemma":"porque","morphology":"subordinating conjunction","role":"introduces the clause of falta","gloss":"because"},{"surface":"les","lemma":"él","morphology":"pronoun, dative, plural","role":"indirect object of falta","gloss":"they"},{"surface":"falta","lemma":"faltar","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"adverbial clause on hará","gloss":"lack"},{"surface":"un","lemma":"uno","morphology":"determiner, masculine, singular","role":"determiner of Dios","gloss":"a"},{"surface":"Dios","lemma":"Dios","morphology":"proper noun","role":"subject of falta","gloss":"God"}]},{"number":67,"label":"","id":"el-suicida-p16-s12","source":"Los hombres se declararán en huelga hasta que Dios no se haga presente.","translation":"Men will declare themselves on strike until God makes himself present.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p16-s12.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"hasta que... se haga","title":"Subjunctive after «hasta que»","body":"«hasta que» referring to a future, not-yet-real moment takes the subjunctive: «se haga presente» (present subjunctive of «hacerse») = 'until God makes himself present'. The «no» here is an expletive (untranslated) common in this idiom."}],"words":[{"surface":"Los","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, masculine, plural","role":"determiner of hombres","gloss":"The"},{"surface":"hombres","lemma":"hombre","morphology":"noun, masculine, plural","role":"subject of declararán","gloss":"Men"},{"surface":"se","lemma":"él","morphology":"pronoun, accusative, reflexive","role":"reflexive particle of declararán","gloss":"themselves"},{"surface":"declararán","lemma":"declarar","morphology":"verb, future, indicative, third-person, plural","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"will declare"},{"surface":"en","lemma":"en","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking huelga","gloss":"on"},{"surface":"huelga","lemma":"huelga","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"oblique complement of declararán","gloss":"strike"},{"surface":"hasta","lemma":"hasta","morphology":"preposition","role":"introduces the clause of haga","gloss":"until"},{"surface":"que","lemma":"que","morphology":"subordinating conjunction","role":"introduces the clause of haga","gloss":"that"},{"surface":"Dios","lemma":"Dios","morphology":"proper noun","role":"subject of haga","gloss":"God"},{"surface":"no","lemma":"no","morphology":"adverb","role":"modifies haga","gloss":"not","note":"Expletive negation after hasta que — this no doesn't make the clause negative; it still means 'until God becomes present.'"},{"surface":"se","lemma":"él","morphology":"pronoun, accusative, reflexive","role":"reflexive particle of haga","gloss":"himself"},{"surface":"haga","lemma":"hacer","morphology":"verb, present, subjunctive, third-person, singular","role":"adverbial clause on declararán","gloss":"makes"},{"surface":"presente","lemma":"presente","morphology":"adjective, singular","role":"predicate complement of haga","gloss":"present"}]},{"number":68,"label":"17","id":"el-suicida-p17-s1","source":"Un amargo olor de cianuro llegó hasta él; y percibiendo a través de los párpados la lechosa claridad de la mañana, sintióse diluido como si se hallara en el fondo del mar y la arena subiera indefinidamente sobre su chozo de plomo.","translation":"A bitter smell of cyanide reached him; and perceiving through his eyelids the milky brightness of the morning, he felt himself dissolved, as if he were at the bottom of the sea and the sand kept rising endlessly over his little lead hut.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p17-s1.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"como si se hallara","title":"«como si» + imperfect subjunctive","body":"«como si» ('as if') always takes the imperfect (or pluperfect) subjunctive: «como si se hallara» = 'as if he were'. The construction frames a hypothetical, contrary-to-fact comparison."}],"words":[{"surface":"Un","lemma":"uno","morphology":"determiner, masculine, singular","role":"determiner of olor","gloss":"A"},{"surface":"amargo","lemma":"amargo","morphology":"adjective, masculine, singular","role":"modifies olor","gloss":"bitter"},{"surface":"olor","lemma":"olor","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"subject of llegó","gloss":"smell"},{"surface":"de","lemma":"de","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking cianuro","gloss":"of"},{"surface":"cianuro","lemma":"cianuro","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"modifies olor","gloss":"cyanide"},{"surface":"llegó","lemma":"llegar","morphology":"verb, past, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"reached"},{"surface":"hasta","lemma":"hasta","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking él","gloss":"to"},{"surface":"él","lemma":"él","morphology":"pronoun, acc,nom, masculine, 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feminine, singular","role":"determiner of claridad","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"lechosa","lemma":"lechoso","morphology":"adjective, feminine, singular","role":"modifies claridad","gloss":"milky"},{"surface":"claridad","lemma":"claridad","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"direct object of percibiendo","gloss":"brightness"},{"surface":"de","lemma":"de","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking mañana","gloss":"of"},{"surface":"la","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, feminine, singular","role":"determiner of mañana","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"mañana","lemma":"mañana","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"modifies claridad","gloss":"morning"},{"surface":"sintióse","lemma":"sentir","morphology":"verb, past, indicative, third-person, singular, reflexive","role":"coordinated with llegó","gloss":"felt himself","note":"Archaic literary word order attaches the reflexive pronoun se to the end of the verb (sintióse = se sintió, 'he felt himself')."},{"surface":"diluido","lemma":"diluido","morphology":"adjective, masculine, singular","role":"predicate complement of sintióse","gloss":"dissolved"},{"surface":"como","lemma":"como","morphology":"subordinating conjunction","role":"introduces the clause of hallara","gloss":"as"},{"surface":"si","lemma":"si","morphology":"subordinating conjunction","role":"introduces the clause of hallara","gloss":"if"},{"surface":"se","lemma":"él","morphology":"pronoun, accusative, reflexive","role":"reflexive particle of hallara","gloss":"himself"},{"surface":"hallara","lemma":"hallar","morphology":"verb, imperfect, subjunctive, third-person, singular","role":"adverbial clause on diluido","gloss":"were"},{"surface":"en","lemma":"en","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking fondo","gloss":"at"},{"surface":"el","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, masculine, singular","role":"determiner of fondo","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"fondo","lemma":"fondo","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"oblique complement of hallara","gloss":"bottom"},{"surface":"del","lemma":"del","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking mar","gloss":"of the"},{"surface":"mar","lemma":"mar","morphology":"noun, singular","role":"modifies fondo","gloss":"sea"},{"surface":"y","lemma":"y","morphology":"conjunction","role":"links the coordination","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"la","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, feminine, singular","role":"determiner of arena","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"arena","lemma":"arena","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"subject of subiera","gloss":"sand"},{"surface":"subiera","lemma":"subir","morphology":"verb, imperfect, subjunctive, third-person, singular","role":"coordinated with hallara","gloss":"kept rising"},{"surface":"indefinidamente","lemma":"indefinidamente","morphology":"adverb","role":"modifies subiera","gloss":"endlessly"},{"surface":"sobre","lemma":"sobre","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking chozo","gloss":"over"},{"surface":"su","lemma":"su","morphology":"determiner, singular","role":"determiner of chozo","gloss":"his"},{"surface":"chozo","lemma":"chozo","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"oblique complement of subiera","gloss":"hut"},{"surface":"de","lemma":"de","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking plomo","gloss":"of"},{"surface":"plomo","lemma":"plomo","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"modifies chozo","gloss":"lead"}]},{"number":69,"label":"","id":"el-suicida-p17-s2","source":"Alguien le tocó la espalda.","translation":"Someone touched his back.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p17-s2.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"le tocó la espalda","title":"Indirect object for body parts","body":"For actions on the body, Spanish uses an indirect-object pronoun plus the definite article instead of a possessive: «le tocó la espalda» = literally 'touched the back to him' = 'touched his back'. English would say 'his back'."}],"words":[{"surface":"Alguien","lemma":"alguien","morphology":"pronoun, singular","role":"subject of tocó","gloss":"Someone"},{"surface":"le","lemma":"él","morphology":"pronoun, dative, singular","role":"indirect object of tocó","gloss":"his","note":"Spanish uses a dative pronoun (le) instead of a possessive here — literally 'touched the back to him.'"},{"surface":"tocó","lemma":"tocar","morphology":"verb, past, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"touched"},{"surface":"la","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, feminine, singular","role":"determiner of espalda","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"espalda","lemma":"espalda","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"direct object of tocó","gloss":"back"}]},{"number":70,"label":"18","id":"el-suicida-p18-s1","source":"Abrió los ojos al tiempo que el mozo del café le decía:","translation":"He opened his eyes just as the café waiter said to him:","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p18-s1.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"mozo","title":"«mozo» — waiter","body":"«mozo» here means 'waiter' (in a café or restaurant), the standard term in Argentina. The word can also mean 'young man / lad' depending on context; the café setting fixes it as 'waiter'."}],"words":[{"surface":"Abrió","lemma":"abrir","morphology":"verb, past, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"He opened"},{"surface":"los","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, masculine, plural","role":"determiner of ojos","gloss":"his"},{"surface":"ojos","lemma":"ojo","morphology":"noun, masculine, plural","role":"direct object of Abrió","gloss":"eyes"},{"surface":"al","lemma":"al","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking decía","gloss":"at"},{"surface":"tiempo","lemma":"tiempo","morphology":"noun","role":"part of the phrase al","gloss":"the time"},{"surface":"que","lemma":"que","morphology":"subordinating conjunction","role":"part of the phrase al","gloss":"that"},{"surface":"el","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, masculine, singular","role":"determiner of mozo","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"mozo","lemma":"mozo","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"subject of decía","gloss":"waiter"},{"surface":"del","lemma":"del","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking café","gloss":"of the"},{"surface":"café","lemma":"café","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"modifies mozo","gloss":"café"},{"surface":"le","lemma":"él","morphology":"pronoun, dative, singular","role":"indirect object of decía","gloss":"to him"},{"surface":"decía","lemma":"decir","morphology":"verb, imperfect, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"adverbial clause on Abrió","gloss":"said"}]},{"number":71,"label":"19","id":"el-suicida-p19-s1","source":"–Aquí no se puede dormir.","translation":"–You can't sleep here.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p19-s1.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"no se puede dormir","title":"Impersonal «se puede»","body":"«se puede» + infinitive is an impersonal 'one can / you can': «aquí no se puede dormir» = 'one can't sleep here / no sleeping here'. The «se» leaves the subject general, like English 'you' meaning 'anyone'."}],"words":[{"surface":"Aquí","lemma":"aquí","morphology":"adverb","role":"modifies dormir","gloss":"Here"},{"surface":"no","lemma":"no","morphology":"adverb","role":"modifies dormir","gloss":"not"},{"surface":"se","lemma":"él","morphology":"pronoun, accusative, reflexive","role":"impersonal particle with puede","gloss":"one","note":"Se puede is an impersonal construction ('one can/it's possible to'), rendered here as 'you can't.'"},{"surface":"puede","lemma":"poder","morphology":"auxiliary verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"auxiliary of dormir","gloss":"can"},{"surface":"dormir","lemma":"dormir","morphology":"verb, infinitive","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"sleep"}]},{"number":72,"label":"20","id":"el-suicida-p20-s1","source":"Iba a replicar, mas el criado se apartó para ir a despertar a otro durmiente.","translation":"He was about to reply, but the servant moved off to go wake another sleeper.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p20-s1.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"Iba a replicar","title":"«ir a» + infinitive (past)","body":"«ir a» + infinitive expresses an intended or imminent action. In the imperfect, «iba a replicar» = 'he was about to reply / was going to reply' — an intention cut off by what follows."}],"words":[{"surface":"Iba","lemma":"ir","morphology":"auxiliary verb, imperfect, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"auxiliary of replicar","gloss":"was going"},{"surface":"a","lemma":"a","morphology":"preposition","role":"introduces the clause of replicar","gloss":"to"},{"surface":"replicar","lemma":"replicar","morphology":"verb, infinitive","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"reply"},{"surface":"mas","lemma":"mas","morphology":"conjunction","role":"connects to the following clause","gloss":"but","note":"Mas (no accent) is a literary conjunction meaning 'but,' distinct from más ('more')."},{"surface":"el","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, masculine, singular","role":"determiner of criado","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"criado","lemma":"criado","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"subject of 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bicycle handlebars — and he shook his patron in such a way that the man ended up doubled over the chair, kept from falling only because the edge of the table held him up.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p21-s1.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"patrón","title":"«patrón» — boss / proprietor","body":"«patrón» means 'boss, owner, proprietor' — here the owner of the café. «parroquiano» (next) is a 'regular customer / patron'. The redundant «lo sacudió a su parroquiano» (object pronoun plus noun) is a River Plate trait."}],"words":[{"surface":"Pero","lemma":"pero","morphology":"conjunction","role":"connects the sentence to what precedes","gloss":"But"},{"surface":"el","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, masculine, singular","role":"determiner of durmiente","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"durmiente","lemma":"durmiente","morphology":"noun, singular","role":"subject of respondía","gloss":"sleeper"},{"surface":"no","lemma":"no","morphology":"adverb","role":"modifies respondía","gloss":"not"},{"surface":"respondía","lemma":"responder","morphology":"verb, imperfect, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"responded"},{"surface":"a","lemma":"a","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking voces","gloss":"to"},{"surface":"las","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, feminine, plural","role":"determiner of 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manchaba","gloss":"escaping"},{"surface":"de","lemma":"de","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking labios","gloss":"from"},{"surface":"entre","lemma":"entre","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking labios","gloss":"between"},{"surface":"los","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, masculine, plural","role":"determiner of labios","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"labios","lemma":"labio","morphology":"noun, masculine, plural","role":"oblique complement of escapando","gloss":"lips"},{"surface":"azulados","lemma":"azulado","morphology":"adjective, masculine, plural","role":"modifies labios","gloss":"bluish"}]},{"number":79,"label":"","id":"el-suicida-p23-s4","source":"El codo del desconocido apretaba en la mesa una hoja de papel escrito.","translation":"The stranger's elbow pressed a sheet of written paper against the table.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p23-s4.m4a","notes":[],"words":[{"surface":"El","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, masculine, singular","role":"determiner of codo","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"codo","lemma":"codo","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"subject of apretaba","gloss":"elbow"},{"surface":"del","lemma":"del","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking desconocido","gloss":"of the"},{"surface":"desconocido","lemma":"desconocido","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"modifies codo","gloss":"stranger"},{"surface":"apretaba","lemma":"apretar","morphology":"verb, imperfect, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"pressed"},{"surface":"en","lemma":"en","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking mesa","gloss":"against"},{"surface":"la","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, feminine, singular","role":"determiner of mesa","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"mesa","lemma":"mesa","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"oblique complement of apretaba","gloss":"table"},{"surface":"una","lemma":"uno","morphology":"determiner, feminine, singular","role":"determiner of hoja","gloss":"a"},{"surface":"hoja","lemma":"hoja","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"direct object of apretaba","gloss":"sheet"},{"surface":"de","lemma":"de","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking papel","gloss":"of"},{"surface":"papel","lemma":"papel","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"modifies hoja","gloss":"paper"},{"surface":"escrito","lemma":"escrito","morphology":"adjective, masculine, singular","role":"modifies papel","gloss":"written"}]},{"number":80,"label":"","id":"el-suicida-p23-s5","source":"Comprendieron que estaba muerto.","translation":"They understood that he was dead.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p23-s5.m4a","notes":[],"words":[{"surface":"Comprendieron","lemma":"comprender","morphology":"verb, past, indicative, third-person, plural","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"they understood"},{"surface":"que","lemma":"que","morphology":"subordinating conjunction","role":"introduces the clause of muerto","gloss":"that"},{"surface":"estaba","lemma":"estar","morphology":"auxiliary verb, imperfect, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"copula linking to muerto","gloss":"was"},{"surface":"muerto","lemma":"muerto","morphology":"adjective, masculine, singular","role":"clausal complement of Comprendieron","gloss":"dead"}]},{"number":81,"label":"","id":"el-suicida-p23-s6","source":"Llamaron a la policía, pero Erdosain no se movía de allí, encurioseado por el espectáculo del siniestro suicida de las gafas negras, cuya piel se cubría lentamente de manchas azules.","translation":"They called the police, but Erdosain would not move from the spot, drawn in by the spectacle of the sinister suicide in the black glasses, whose skin was slowly covering over with blue blotches.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p23-s6.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"cuya piel","title":"«cuyo/a» — whose","body":"«cuyo/a» is the relative possessive 'whose'. It agrees in gender and number with the thing possessed, not the possessor: «cuya piel» = 'whose skin' (feminine, agreeing with «piel»)."}],"words":[{"surface":"Llamaron","lemma":"llamar","morphology":"verb, past, indicative, third-person, plural","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"they called"},{"surface":"a","lemma":"a","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking policía","gloss":"object marker","note":"Personal \"a\" marks a human direct object; it has no separate English translation."},{"surface":"la","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, feminine, singular","role":"determiner of policía","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"policía","lemma":"policía","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"direct object of Llamaron","gloss":"police"},{"surface":"pero","lemma":"pero","morphology":"conjunction","role":"links the coordination","gloss":"but"},{"surface":"Erdosain","lemma":"Erdosain","morphology":"proper noun","role":"subject of 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cubría","gloss":"blotches"},{"surface":"azules","lemma":"azul","morphology":"adjective, plural","role":"modifies manchas","gloss":"blue"}]},{"number":82,"label":"","id":"el-suicida-p23-s7","source":"Y el olor de almendras amargas que estaba inmóvil en el aire, parecía escaparse de entre las quijadas abiertas.","translation":"And the smell of bitter almonds that hung motionless in the air seemed to escape from between his open jaws.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p23-s7.m4a","notes":[],"words":[{"surface":"Y","lemma":"y","morphology":"conjunction","role":"links the coordination","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"el","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, masculine, singular","role":"determiner of olor","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"olor","lemma":"olor","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"subject of parecía","gloss":"smell"},{"surface":"de","lemma":"de","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking almendras","gloss":"of"},{"surface":"almendras","lemma":"almendra","morphology":"noun, feminine, plural","role":"modifies olor","gloss":"almonds"},{"surface":"amargas","lemma":"amargo","morphology":"adjective, feminine, plural","role":"modifies almendras","gloss":"bitter"},{"surface":"que","lemma":"que","morphology":"pronoun","role":"subject of inmóvil","gloss":"that"},{"surface":"estaba","lemma":"estar","morphology":"auxiliary verb, imperfect, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"copula linking to inmóvil","gloss":"hung"},{"surface":"inmóvil","lemma":"inmóvil","morphology":"adjective, singular","role":"clause modifying olor","gloss":"motionless"},{"surface":"en","lemma":"en","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking aire","gloss":"in"},{"surface":"el","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, masculine, singular","role":"determiner of aire","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"aire","lemma":"aire","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"oblique complement of 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auxiliar de policía, luego un sargento, más tarde dos vigilantes y un oficial inspector, y dicha gente merodeaba en torno del muerto, como si éste fuera una res.","translation":"A police auxiliary arrived, then a sergeant, later two patrolmen and an inspector officer, and these people prowled around the dead man as if he were a head of cattle.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p24-s1.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"como si éste fuera","title":"«como si fuera» — as if he were","body":"Again «como si» governs the imperfect subjunctive: «fuera» ('were'), the imperfect subjunctive of «ser». The comparison is deliberately hypothetical and dehumanizing — 'as if he were a slaughtered animal'."}],"words":[{"surface":"Llegó","lemma":"llegar","morphology":"verb, past, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"arrived"},{"surface":"un","lemma":"uno","morphology":"determiner, masculine, singular","role":"determiner of auxiliar","gloss":"a"},{"surface":"auxiliar","lemma":"auxiliar","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"subject of Llegó","gloss":"auxiliary"},{"surface":"de","lemma":"de","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking policía","gloss":"of"},{"surface":"policía","lemma":"policía","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"modifies auxiliar","gloss":"police"},{"surface":"luego","lemma":"luego","morphology":"adverb","role":"modifies sargento","gloss":"then"},{"surface":"un","lemma":"uno","morphology":"determiner, masculine, singular","role":"determiner of sargento","gloss":"a"},{"surface":"sargento","lemma":"sargento","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"coordinated with auxiliar","gloss":"sergeant"},{"surface":"más","lemma":"más","morphology":"adverb","role":"modifies tarde","gloss":"more"},{"surface":"tarde","lemma":"tarde","morphology":"adverb","role":"modifies vigilantes","gloss":"later"},{"surface":"dos","lemma":"dos","morphology":"numeral, plural","role":"quantifies vigilantes","gloss":"two"},{"surface":"vigilantes","lemma":"vigilante","morphology":"noun, plural","role":"coordinated with sargento","gloss":"patrolmen"},{"surface":"y","lemma":"y","morphology":"conjunction","role":"links the coordination","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"un","lemma":"uno","morphology":"determiner, masculine, singular","role":"determiner of inspector","gloss":"an"},{"surface":"oficial","lemma":"oficial","morphology":"adjective, singular","role":"modifies inspector","gloss":"officer"},{"surface":"inspector","lemma":"inspector","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"coordinated with vigilantes","gloss":"inspector"},{"surface":"y","lemma":"y","morphology":"conjunction","role":"links the coordination","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"dicha","lemma":"dicho","morphology":"adjective, feminine, singular","role":"modifies gente","gloss":"these"},{"surface":"gente","lemma":"gente","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"subject of merodeaba","gloss":"people"},{"surface":"merodeaba","lemma":"merodear","morphology":"verb, imperfect, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"coordinated with Llegó","gloss":"prowled"},{"surface":"en","lemma":"en","morphology":"preposition","role":"part of the idiom \"en torno del\" (= around)","gloss":"around"},{"surface":"torno","lemma":"torno","morphology":"noun","role":"part of the idiom \"en torno del\"","gloss":"turn","note":"\"en torno de/del\" is a fixed phrase meaning \"around,\" not literally \"a turn of.\""},{"surface":"del","lemma":"del","morphology":"preposition","role":"part of the idiom \"en torno del\"","gloss":"of the"},{"surface":"muerto","lemma":"muerto","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"object of the phrase \"en torno del\"","gloss":"dead man"},{"surface":"como","lemma":"como","morphology":"subordinating conjunction","role":"introduces the clause of res","gloss":"as"},{"surface":"si","lemma":"si","morphology":"subordinating conjunction","role":"introduces the clause of res","gloss":"if"},{"surface":"éste","lemma":"este","morphology":"pronoun, masculine, singular","role":"subject of res","gloss":"he"},{"surface":"fuera","lemma":"ser","morphology":"auxiliary verb, imperfect, subjunctive, third-person, singular","role":"copula linking to res","gloss":"were"},{"surface":"una","lemma":"uno","morphology":"determiner, feminine, singular","role":"determiner of res","gloss":"a"},{"surface":"res","lemma":"res","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"adverbial clause on merodeaba","gloss":"head of cattle"}]},{"number":84,"label":"","id":"el-suicida-p24-s2","source":"De pronto el auxiliar, dirigiéndose al oficial inspector, dijo:","translation":"Suddenly the auxiliary, turning to the inspector officer, said:","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p24-s2.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"De pronto","title":"«de pronto» — suddenly","body":"«de pronto» is an adverbial idiom meaning 'suddenly, all at once'. Note also «dirigirse a» ('to address / turn to' someone), used here for the auxiliary speaking to the inspector."}],"words":[{"surface":"De","lemma":"de","morphology":"preposition","role":"part of the idiom de pronto, modifies dijo","gloss":"suddenly","note":"'De pronto' is a fixed idiom meaning 'suddenly.'"},{"surface":"pronto","lemma":"pronto","morphology":"adverb","role":"part of the phrase de pronto","gloss":"suddenly"},{"surface":"el","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, masculine, singular","role":"determiner of auxiliar","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"auxiliar","lemma":"auxiliar","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"subject of dijo","gloss":"auxiliary"},{"surface":"dirigiéndose","lemma":"dirigir él","morphology":"verb, gerund","role":"adverbial clause on dijo","gloss":"turning"},{"surface":"al","lemma":"al","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking inspector","gloss":"to the"},{"surface":"oficial","lemma":"oficial","morphology":"adjective, 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third-person, singular","role":"copula linking to quién","gloss":"is"}]},{"number":86,"label":"26","id":"el-suicida-p26-s1","source":"El sargento sacó del bolsillo del cadáver la adición de un hotel, varias monedas, un revólver, tres cartas lacradas.","translation":"The sergeant pulled from the corpse's pocket a hotel bill, several coins, a revolver, three sealed letters.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p26-s1.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"la adición","title":"«la adición» — the bill","body":"Beyond 'addition', «adición» here means a hotel or restaurant 'bill / check' (from French «addition»), a usage current in River Plate Spanish. «cartas lacradas» are letters sealed with wax («lacre»)."}],"words":[{"surface":"El","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, masculine, singular","role":"determiner of sargento","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"sargento","lemma":"sargento","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"subject of 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(literally \"addition\")."},{"surface":"de","lemma":"de","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking hotel","gloss":"of"},{"surface":"un","lemma":"uno","morphology":"determiner, masculine, singular","role":"determiner of hotel","gloss":"a"},{"surface":"hotel","lemma":"hotel","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"modifies adición","gloss":"hotel"},{"surface":"varias","lemma":"varios","morphology":"determiner, feminine, plural","role":"determiner of monedas","gloss":"several"},{"surface":"monedas","lemma":"moneda","morphology":"noun, feminine, plural","role":"coordinated with adición","gloss":"coins"},{"surface":"un","lemma":"uno","morphology":"determiner, masculine, singular","role":"determiner of revólver","gloss":"a"},{"surface":"revólver","lemma":"revólver","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"coordinated with adición","gloss":"revolver"},{"surface":"tres","lemma":"tres","morphology":"numeral, plural","role":"quantifies 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It introduces an inference from what was just learned."}],"words":[{"surface":"Así","lemma":"así","morphology":"adverb","role":"modifies es","gloss":"So","note":"«Así que» together means 'so, well then.'"},{"surface":"que","lemma":"que","morphology":"subordinating conjunction","role":"part of the phrase Así","gloss":"that"},{"surface":"éste","lemma":"este","morphology":"pronoun, masculine, singular","role":"subject of es","gloss":"this"},{"surface":"es","lemma":"ser","morphology":"auxiliary verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"is"},{"surface":"el","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, masculine, singular","role":"head of the phrase","gloss":"the one"},{"surface":"que","lemma":"que","morphology":"pronoun","role":"subject of mató","gloss":"who"},{"surface":"mató","lemma":"matar","morphology":"verb, past, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"relative clause modifying el","gloss":"killed"},{"surface":"a","lemma":"a","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking muchacha","gloss":"object marker","note":"Personal \"a\" marks a human direct object; it has no separate English translation."},{"surface":"la","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, feminine, singular","role":"determiner of muchacha","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"muchacha","lemma":"muchacha","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"direct object of mató","gloss":"girl"},{"surface":"de","lemma":"de","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking calle","gloss":"on"},{"surface":"la","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, feminine, singular","role":"determiner of calle","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"calle","lemma":"calle","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"modifies muchacha","gloss":"street"},{"surface":"Talcahuano","lemma":"Talcahuano","morphology":"proper noun","role":"in apposition to calle","gloss":"Talcahuano"}]},{"number":88,"label":"28","id":"el-suicida-p28-s1","source":"Le quitaron los anteojos al muerto, y ahora se le veían los ojos, las pupilas bisqueando, la córnea vuelta hacia arriba, los párpados teñidos de rojo como si hubiera llorado lágrimas de sangre.","translation":"They took the glasses off the dead man, and now his eyes could be seen, the pupils squinting, the cornea turned upward, the eyelids dyed red as if he had wept tears of blood.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p28-s1.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"como si hubiera llorado","title":"«como si» + pluperfect subjunctive","body":"When «como si» refers to something imagined as already past, it takes the pluperfect subjunctive: «hubiera llorado» = 'as if he had wept'. «anteojos» is the River Plate word for 'eyeglasses' (Spain: «gafas»)."}],"words":[{"surface":"Le","lemma":"él","morphology":"pronoun, dative, singular","role":"indirect object of quitaron","gloss":"him"},{"surface":"quitaron","lemma":"quitar","morphology":"verb, past, indicative, third-person, plural","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"took off"},{"surface":"los","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, masculine, plural","role":"determiner of anteojos","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"anteojos","lemma":"anteojo","morphology":"noun, masculine, plural","role":"direct object of quitaron","gloss":"glasses"},{"surface":"al","lemma":"al","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking muerto","gloss":"off the"},{"surface":"muerto","lemma":"muerto","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"oblique complement of quitaron","gloss":"dead man"},{"surface":"y","lemma":"y","morphology":"conjunction","role":"links the coordination","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"ahora","lemma":"ahora","morphology":"adverb","role":"modifies veían","gloss":"now"},{"surface":"se","lemma":"él","morphology":"pronoun, accusative, reflexive","role":"passive marker of veían","gloss":"(passive)","note":"Passive 'se': 'se le veían los ojos' = 'his eyes were/could be seen' (impersonal passive, no expressed agent)."},{"surface":"le","lemma":"él","morphology":"pronoun, dative, singular","role":"indirect object of veían (dative of possession)","gloss":"his","note":"Dative of possession: 'se le veían los ojos' means 'his eyes were seen,' not 'to him.'"},{"surface":"veían","lemma":"ver","morphology":"verb, imperfect, indicative, third-person, plural","role":"coordinated with quitaron","gloss":"could be seen"},{"surface":"los","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, masculine, plural","role":"determiner of ojos","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"ojos","lemma":"ojo","morphology":"noun, masculine, plural","role":"subject of veían","gloss":"eyes"},{"surface":"las","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, feminine, plural","role":"determiner of pupilas","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"pupilas","lemma":"pupila","morphology":"noun, feminine, plural","role":"subject of bisqueando","gloss":"pupils"},{"surface":"bisqueando","lemma":"bizquear","morphology":"verb, gerund","role":"modifies pupilas","gloss":"squinting","note":"Spelled \"bisqueando\" in the source; standard spelling is \"bizqueando,\" from \"bizquear\" (to squint)."},{"surface":"la","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, feminine, singular","role":"determiner of córnea","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"córnea","lemma":"córnea","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"subject of vuelta","gloss":"cornea"},{"surface":"vuelta","lemma":"vuelto","morphology":"adjective, feminine, singular","role":"modifies córnea","gloss":"turned"},{"surface":"hacia","lemma":"hacia","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking arriba","gloss":"toward"},{"surface":"arriba","lemma":"arriba","morphology":"adverb","role":"modifies vuelta","gloss":"upward"},{"surface":"los","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, masculine, plural","role":"determiner of párpados","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"párpados","lemma":"párpado","morphology":"noun, masculine, plural","role":"subject of teñidos","gloss":"eyelids"},{"surface":"teñidos","lemma":"teñido","morphology":"adjective, masculine, plural","role":"modifies párpados","gloss":"dyed"},{"surface":"de","lemma":"de","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking rojo","gloss":"with"},{"surface":"rojo","lemma":"rojo","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"oblique complement of teñidos","gloss":"red"},{"surface":"como","lemma":"como","morphology":"subordinating conjunction","role":"introduces the clause of llorado","gloss":"as"},{"surface":"si","lemma":"si","morphology":"subordinating conjunction","role":"introduces the clause of llorado","gloss":"if"},{"surface":"hubiera","lemma":"haber","morphology":"auxiliary verb, imperfect, subjunctive, third-person, singular","role":"auxiliary of llorado","gloss":"had"},{"surface":"llorado","lemma":"llorar","morphology":"verb, past, participle, masculine, singular","role":"adverbial clause on teñidos","gloss":"wept"},{"surface":"lágrimas","lemma":"lágrima","morphology":"noun, feminine, plural","role":"direct object of llorado","gloss":"tears"},{"surface":"de","lemma":"de","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking sangre","gloss":"of"},{"surface":"sangre","lemma":"sangre","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"modifies lágrimas","gloss":"blood"}]},{"number":89,"label":"29","id":"el-suicida-p29-s1","source":"–¿No le decía? –continuó el auxiliar–.","translation":"–Didn't I tell you? –the auxiliary went on–.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p29-s1.m4a","notes":[],"words":[{"surface":"No","lemma":"no","morphology":"adverb","role":"modifies decía","gloss":"not"},{"surface":"le","lemma":"él","morphology":"pronoun, dative, singular","role":"indirect object of decía","gloss":"you"},{"surface":"decía","lemma":"decir","morphology":"verb, imperfect, indicative, first-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"told"},{"surface":"continuó","lemma":"continuar","morphology":"verb, past, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"parallel clause to decía","gloss":"went on"},{"surface":"el","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, masculine, singular","role":"determiner of auxiliar","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"auxiliar","lemma":"auxiliar","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"subject of continuó","gloss":"auxiliary"}]},{"number":90,"label":"","id":"el-suicida-p29-s2","source":"Aquí está la cédula de identidad.","translation":"Here is his identity card.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p29-s2.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"cédula de identidad","title":"«cédula de identidad» — ID card","body":"The «cédula de identidad» is the national identity document in much of Latin America. The phrase recurs across the chapter as the police establish who the dead man is."}],"words":[{"surface":"Aquí","lemma":"aquí","morphology":"adverb","role":"modifies está","gloss":"here"},{"surface":"está","lemma":"estar","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"is"},{"surface":"la","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, feminine, singular","role":"determiner of cédula","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"cédula","lemma":"cédula","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"subject of está","gloss":"card"},{"surface":"de","lemma":"de","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking identidad","gloss":"of"},{"surface":"identidad","lemma":"identidad","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"modifies cédula","gloss":"identity"}]},{"number":91,"label":"30","id":"el-suicida-p30-s1","source":"–Iba a ir a Ushuaia para toda la vida.","translation":"–He was going to go to Ushuaia for the rest of his life.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p30-s1.m4a","notes":[],"words":[{"surface":"Iba","lemma":"ir","morphology":"auxiliary verb, imperfect, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"auxiliary of ir","gloss":"was going"},{"surface":"a","lemma":"a","morphology":"preposition","role":"introduces the clause of ir","gloss":"to"},{"surface":"ir","lemma":"ir","morphology":"verb, infinitive","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"go"},{"surface":"a","lemma":"a","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking Ushuaia","gloss":"to"},{"surface":"Ushuaia","lemma":"Ushuaia","morphology":"proper noun","role":"oblique complement of ir","gloss":"Ushuaia"},{"surface":"para","lemma":"para","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking vida","gloss":"for"},{"surface":"toda","lemma":"todo","morphology":"determiner, feminine, singular","role":"determiner of vida","gloss":"whole"},{"surface":"la","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, feminine, singular","role":"determiner of vida","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"vida","lemma":"vida","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"oblique complement of ir","gloss":"life"}]},{"number":92,"label":"31","id":"el-suicida-p31-s1","source":"Entonces Erdosain, al escuchar estas palabras, recordó como si hiciera mucho tiempo que lo hubiera leído.","translation":"Then Erdosain, on hearing these words, remembered as if he had read it long ago.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p31-s1.m4a","notes":[],"words":[{"surface":"Entonces","lemma":"entonces","morphology":"adverb","role":"modifies recordó","gloss":"then"},{"surface":"Erdosain","lemma":"Erdosain","morphology":"proper noun","role":"subject of recordó","gloss":"Erdosain"},{"surface":"al","lemma":"al","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking escuchar","gloss":"on"},{"surface":"escuchar","lemma":"escuchar","morphology":"verb, infinitive","role":"adverbial clause on 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earlier/ago.'"},{"surface":"mucho","lemma":"mucho","morphology":"determiner, masculine, singular","role":"determiner of tiempo","gloss":"much"},{"surface":"tiempo","lemma":"tiempo","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"direct object of hiciera","gloss":"time"},{"surface":"que","lemma":"que","morphology":"subordinating conjunction","role":"introduces the clause of leído","gloss":"since"},{"surface":"lo","lemma":"él","morphology":"pronoun, accusative, masculine, singular","role":"direct object of leído","gloss":"it"},{"surface":"hubiera","lemma":"haber","morphology":"auxiliary verb, imperfect, subjunctive, third-person, singular","role":"auxiliary of leído","gloss":"had"},{"surface":"leído","lemma":"leer","morphology":"verb, past, participle, masculine, singular","role":"adverbial clause on hiciera","gloss":"read"}]},{"number":93,"label":"","id":"el-suicida-p31-s2","source":"(Y sin embargo, no era así.","translation":"(And yet it was not so.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p31-s2.m4a","notes":[],"words":[{"surface":"Y","lemma":"Y","morphology":"conjunction","role":"links the coordination","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"sin","lemma":"sin","morphology":"preposition","role":"heads the phrase sin embargo, modifies era","gloss":"however","note":"«Sin embargo» is a fixed idiom meaning 'however, nevertheless.'"},{"surface":"embargo","lemma":"embargo","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"part of the phrase sin embargo","gloss":"however"},{"surface":"no","lemma":"no","morphology":"adverb","role":"modifies era","gloss":"not"},{"surface":"era","lemma":"ser","morphology":"auxiliary verb, imperfect, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"copula linking to así","gloss":"was"},{"surface":"así","lemma":"así","morphology":"adverb","role":"head of the phrase","gloss":"so"}]},{"number":94,"label":"","id":"el-suicida-p31-s3","source":"La mañana anterior se había enterado en un diario).","translation":"The previous morning he had learned of it in a newspaper).","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p31-s3.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"se había enterado","title":"«enterarse (de)» — to find out","body":"«enterarse (de)» is a pronominal verb meaning 'to find out about, learn of' news or information. «se había enterado en un diario» = 'he had found out about it in a newspaper'."}],"words":[{"surface":"La","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, feminine, singular","role":"determiner of mañana","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"mañana","lemma":"mañana","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"oblique complement of enterado","gloss":"morning"},{"surface":"anterior","lemma":"anterior","morphology":"adjective, singular","role":"modifies mañana","gloss":"previous"},{"surface":"se","lemma":"él","morphology":"pronoun, accusative, reflexive","role":"reflexive particle of 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«estafador» is a 'swindler, con man, fraudster' (from «estafar», 'to swindle, defraud'). The word recurs as the chapter sketches the dead man's criminal life — a mirror, the novel implies, of Erdosain himself."}],"words":[{"surface":"El","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, masculine, singular","role":"determiner of muerto","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"muerto","lemma":"muerto","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"subject of estafador","gloss":"dead man"},{"surface":"era","lemma":"ser","morphology":"auxiliary verb, imperfect, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"copula linking to estafador","gloss":"was"},{"surface":"un","lemma":"uno","morphology":"determiner, masculine, singular","role":"determiner of estafador","gloss":"a"},{"surface":"estafador","lemma":"estafador","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"head of the phrase","gloss":"swindler"}]},{"number":96,"label":"","id":"el-suicida-p31-s5","source":"Abandonó a su esposa y cinco hijos para vivir en concubinato con otra mujer de la que tenía tres hijos, pero hacía dos noches, quizá harto de la barragana, se presentó en un hotel de la calle Talcahuano en compañía de una jovencita de diecisiete años, su nueva amante.","translation":"He had abandoned his wife and five children to live in concubinage with another woman by whom he had three children, but two nights before, perhaps fed up with his mistress, he had shown up at a hotel on Calle Talcahuano in the company of a seventeen-year-old girl, his new lover.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p31-s5.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"hacía dos noches","title":"«hacía» + time = ago","body":"«hacer» in the imperfect plus a span of time means 'X ago' relative to a past moment: «hacía dos noches» = 'two nights before / two nights earlier'. «harto de» means 'fed up with'; «barragana» is an old word for 'concubine, kept mistress'."}],"words":[{"surface":"Abandonó","lemma":"abandonar","morphology":"verb, past, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"depends on presentó","gloss":"had 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woman discovered.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p32-s4.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"recién","title":"«recién» — only / just now (River Plate)","body":"In River Plate Spanish «recién» often means 'only / not until / just now' before a time expression: «recién a las doce» = 'only at noon, not until noon'. 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woman?","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p34-s1.m4a","notes":[],"words":[{"surface":"Mas","lemma":"mas","morphology":"conjunction","role":"modifies pensado","gloss":"but"},{"surface":"él","lemma":"él","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, masculine, singular","role":"subject of pensado","gloss":"he"},{"surface":"no","lemma":"no","morphology":"adverb","role":"modifies pensado","gloss":"not"},{"surface":"había","lemma":"haber","morphology":"auxiliary verb, imperfect, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"auxiliary of pensado","gloss":"had"},{"surface":"pensado","lemma":"pensar","morphology":"verb, past, participle, masculine, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"thought"},{"surface":"lo","lemma":"el","morphology":"article, neuter","role":"direct object of pensado","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"mismo","lemma":"mismo","morphology":"adjective, masculine, singular","role":"modifies 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The participle agrees with the subject («el muerto», masculine singular). This passive is more common in writing than in speech, where a «se» construction is preferred."}],"words":[{"surface":"Llegó","lemma":"llegar","morphology":"verb, past, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"arrived"},{"surface":"el","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, masculine, singular","role":"determiner of carro","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"carro","lemma":"carro","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"subject of Llegó","gloss":"wagon"},{"surface":"de","lemma":"de","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking Asistencia","gloss":"of"},{"surface":"la","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, feminine, singular","role":"determiner of Asistencia","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"Asistencia","lemma":"Asistencia","morphology":"proper noun","role":"modifies carro","gloss":"Assistance"},{"surface":"Pública","lemma":"Pública","morphology":"proper noun","role":"part of the name 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of","body":"«a pesar de» means 'in spite of, despite'; «a pesar de ello» = 'despite that, even so'. «hacerse querer» is 'to make oneself loved / win affection' — «hacerse» + infinitive meaning 'to get oneself + done to'."}],"words":[{"surface":"Recordaba","lemma":"recordar","morphology":"verb, imperfect, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"recalled"},{"surface":"ahora","lemma":"ahora","morphology":"adverb","role":"modifies Recordaba","gloss":"now"},{"surface":"que","lemma":"que","morphology":"subordinating conjunction","role":"introduces the clause of tenía","gloss":"that"},{"surface":"el","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, masculine, singular","role":"determiner of cadáver","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"cadáver","lemma":"cadáver","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"subject of tenía","gloss":"corpse"},{"surface":"tenía","lemma":"tener","morphology":"verb, imperfect, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"clausal complement 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adoloridos.","translation":"He rubbed his aching eyelids with his fists.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p39-s2.m4a","notes":[],"words":[{"surface":"Se","lemma":"él","morphology":"pronoun, accusative, reflexive","role":"reflexive particle of restregó","gloss":"himself"},{"surface":"restregó","lemma":"restregar","morphology":"verb, past, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"rubbed"},{"surface":"con","lemma":"con","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking puños","gloss":"with"},{"surface":"los","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, masculine, plural","role":"determiner of puños","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"puños","lemma":"puño","morphology":"noun, masculine, plural","role":"oblique complement of restregó","gloss":"fists"},{"surface":"los","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, masculine, plural","role":"determiner of párpados","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"párpados","lemma":"párpado","morphology":"noun, 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pálido?","translation":"–Am I pale?","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p42-s1.m4a","notes":[],"words":[{"surface":"Estoy","lemma":"estar","morphology":"auxiliary verb, present, indicative, first-person, singular","role":"copula linking to pálido","gloss":"am I"},{"surface":"pálido","lemma":"pálido","morphology":"adjective, masculine, singular","role":"head of the phrase","gloss":"pale"}]},{"number":124,"label":"43","id":"el-suicida-p43-s1","source":"–Amarillo.","translation":"–Yellow.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p43-s1.m4a","notes":[],"words":[{"surface":"Amarillo","lemma":"amarillo","morphology":"adjective, masculine, singular","role":"head of the phrase","gloss":"Yellow"}]},{"number":125,"label":"44","id":"el-suicida-p44-s1","source":"–He dormido mal... para peor he visto un suicidio esta mañana...","translation":"–I slept badly... and worse, I saw a suicide this morning...","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p44-s1.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"He dormido / he visto","title":"Present perfect for the recent past","body":"«he dormido», «he visto» are present-perfect forms («haber» + participle) for events still felt as part of today: 'I have slept / I have seen' = 'I slept / I saw' this very morning. The recency keeps it in the perfect rather than the preterite."}],"words":[{"surface":"He","lemma":"haber","morphology":"auxiliary verb, present, indicative, first-person, singular","role":"auxiliary of dormido","gloss":"have"},{"surface":"dormido","lemma":"dormir","morphology":"verb, past, participle, masculine, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"slept"},{"surface":"mal","lemma":"mal","morphology":"adverb","role":"modifies dormido","gloss":"badly"},{"surface":"para","lemma":"para","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking peor","gloss":"to"},{"surface":"peor","lemma":"peor","morphology":"adverb","role":"modifies visto","gloss":"worse","note":"'Para peor' is a common Rioplatense idiom meaning 'to make things worse' / 'worse yet.'"},{"surface":"he","lemma":"haber","morphology":"auxiliary verb, present, indicative, first-person, singular","role":"auxiliary of visto","gloss":"have"},{"surface":"visto","lemma":"ver","morphology":"verb, past, participle, masculine, singular","role":"second main verb of the sentence","gloss":"seen"},{"surface":"un","lemma":"uno","morphology":"determiner, masculine, singular","role":"determiner of suicidio","gloss":"a"},{"surface":"suicidio","lemma":"suicidio","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"direct object of visto","gloss":"suicide"},{"surface":"esta","lemma":"este","morphology":"determiner, feminine, singular","role":"determiner of mañana","gloss":"this"},{"surface":"mañana","lemma":"mañana","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"oblique complement of visto","gloss":"morning"}]},{"number":126,"label":"45","id":"el-suicida-p45-s1","source":"–Bueno, aquí tiene el cheque.","translation":"–All right, here's the check.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p45-s1.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"aquí tiene","title":"«aquí tiene» — here you are","body":"«aquí tiene» (with the formal «usted») is the polite way to hand something over: 'here you are / here it is'. The Astrologer addresses Erdosain with «usted» throughout, a marker of their guarded, formal rapport."}],"words":[{"surface":"Bueno","lemma":"bueno","morphology":"interjection","role":"modifies tiene","gloss":"All right"},{"surface":"aquí","lemma":"aquí","morphology":"adverb","role":"modifies tiene","gloss":"here"},{"surface":"tiene","lemma":"tener","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"you have","note":"'Aquí tiene' is idiomatic for handing something over — literally 'here you have,' used like English 'here you go.'"},{"surface":"el","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, masculine, singular","role":"determiner of cheque","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"cheque","lemma":"cheque","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"direct object of tiene","gloss":"check"}]},{"number":127,"label":"46","id":"el-suicida-p46-s1","source":"Erdosain lo examinó.","translation":"Erdosain examined it.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p46-s1.m4a","notes":[],"words":[{"surface":"Erdosain","lemma":"Erdosain","morphology":"proper noun","role":"subject of examinó","gloss":"Erdosain"},{"surface":"lo","lemma":"él","morphology":"pronoun, accusative, masculine, singular","role":"direct object of examinó","gloss":"it"},{"surface":"examinó","lemma":"examinar","morphology":"verb, past, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"examined"}]},{"number":128,"label":"","id":"el-suicida-p46-s2","source":"Era por quince mil trescientos setenta y tres pesos; al portador, pero con la fecha atrasada de dos días.","translation":"It was for fifteen thousand three hundred seventy-three pesos; payable to the bearer, but with the date set back by two days.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p46-s2.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"al portador","title":"«al portador» — to the bearer","body":"«al portador» is a banking term: a check 'to the bearer' is payable to whoever holds it, not to a named person. This is why Erdosain can cash it — and why the scheme is dangerous."}],"words":[{"surface":"Era","lemma":"ser","morphology":"auxiliary verb, imperfect, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"copula linking to pesos","gloss":"it was"},{"surface":"por","lemma":"por","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking setenta","gloss":"for"},{"surface":"quince","lemma":"quince","morphology":"numeral","role":"modifies setenta","gloss":"fifteen"},{"surface":"mil","lemma":"mil","morphology":"numeral","role":"compound with quince","gloss":"thousand"},{"surface":"trescientos","lemma":"trescientos","morphology":"numeral","role":"compound with quince","gloss":"three hundred"},{"surface":"setenta","lemma":"setenta","morphology":"numeral","role":"head of the numeral phrase, quantifies pesos","gloss":"seventy"},{"surface":"y","lemma":"y","morphology":"conjunction","role":"joins setenta and tres in the numeral","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"tres","lemma":"tres","morphology":"numeral, 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habría","gloss":"order"},{"surface":"de","lemma":"de","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking secuestro","gloss":"of"},{"surface":"secuestro","lemma":"secuestro","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"modifies orden","gloss":"seizure"}]},{"number":132,"label":"49","id":"el-suicida-p49-s1","source":"–¿Protestó?...","translation":"–Did he protest?...","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p49-s1.m4a","notes":[],"words":[{"surface":"Protestó","lemma":"protestar","morphology":"verb, past, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"did he protest"}]},{"number":133,"label":"50","id":"el-suicida-p50-s1","source":"–No... sonreía.","translation":"–No... he was smiling.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p50-s1.m4a","notes":[],"words":[{"surface":"No","lemma":"no","morphology":"adverb","role":"modifies sonreía","gloss":"no"},{"surface":"sonreía","lemma":"sonreír","morphology":"verb, imperfect, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"he was smiling"}]},{"number":134,"label":"","id":"el-suicida-p50-s2","source":"Ese hombre piensa hacernos meter en la cárcel a todos... ¡ah!... antes de ir al banco, vaya a una peluquería y hágase afeitar...","translation":"That man means to have us all thrown in jail... ah!... before going to the bank, go to a barber's and get yourself shaved...","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p50-s2.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"vaya / hágase afeitar","title":"«usted» commands","body":"These are formal imperatives: «vaya» ('go', from «ir») and «hágase afeitar» ('get yourself shaved', «hacerse» + infinitive). With «usted» the command takes the subjunctive form, and pronouns attach to the affirmative verb («hágase»)."}],"words":[{"surface":"Ese","lemma":"ese","morphology":"determiner, masculine, singular","role":"determiner of hombre","gloss":"That"},{"surface":"hombre","lemma":"hombre","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"subject of piensa","gloss":"man"},{"surface":"piensa","lemma":"pensar","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"means"},{"surface":"hacernos","lemma":"hacer nosotros","morphology":"verb, infinitive","role":"complement of piensa","gloss":"have us"},{"surface":"meter","lemma":"meter","morphology":"verb, infinitive","role":"complement of hacernos","gloss":"thrown"},{"surface":"en","lemma":"en","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking cárcel","gloss":"in"},{"surface":"la","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, feminine, singular","role":"determiner of cárcel","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"cárcel","lemma":"cárcel","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"oblique complement of meter","gloss":"jail"},{"surface":"a","lemma":"a","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking todos","gloss":"object marker","note":"The 'personal a' introduces a direct object referring to a person; it has no direct English translation."},{"surface":"todos","lemma":"todo","morphology":"pronoun, masculine, plural","role":"direct object of meter","gloss":"everyone"},{"surface":"ah","lemma":"ah","morphology":"interjection","role":"modifies piensa","gloss":"ah"},{"surface":"antes","lemma":"antes","morphology":"adverb","role":"modifies vaya","gloss":"before"},{"surface":"de","lemma":"de","morphology":"preposition","role":"introduces the clause of ir","gloss":"to"},{"surface":"ir","lemma":"ir","morphology":"verb, infinitive","role":"adverbial clause on antes","gloss":"going"},{"surface":"al","lemma":"al","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking banco","gloss":"to the"},{"surface":"banco","lemma":"banco","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"oblique complement of ir","gloss":"bank"},{"surface":"vaya","lemma":"ir","morphology":"verb, imperative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the imperative clause","gloss":"go"},{"surface":"a","lemma":"a","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking peluquería","gloss":"to"},{"surface":"una","lemma":"uno","morphology":"determiner, feminine, singular","role":"determiner of peluquería","gloss":"a"},{"surface":"peluquería","lemma":"peluquería","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"oblique complement of vaya","gloss":"barbershop"},{"surface":"y","lemma":"y","morphology":"conjunction","role":"links the coordination","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"hágase","lemma":"hacer él","morphology":"verb, imperative, third-person, singular","role":"coordinated with vaya","gloss":"get yourself","note":"'Hágase afeitar' is a causative reflexive: literally 'have yourself shaved' — you arrange for someone else to do it."},{"surface":"afeitar","lemma":"afeitar","morphology":"verb, infinitive","role":"complement of hágase","gloss":"shaved"}]},{"number":135,"label":"51","id":"el-suicida-p51-s1","source":"–¿Y el otro está advertido?","translation":"–And has the other one been warned?","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p51-s1.m4a","notes":[],"words":[{"surface":"Y","lemma":"y","morphology":"conjunction","role":"conjunction introducing the question","gloss":"And"},{"surface":"el","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, masculine, singular","role":"determiner of otro","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"otro","lemma":"otro","morphology":"pronoun, masculine, singular","role":"subject of advertido","gloss":"other"},{"surface":"está","lemma":"estar","morphology":"auxiliary verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"copula linking to advertido","gloss":"has been"},{"surface":"advertido","lemma":"advertido","morphology":"adjective, masculine, singular","role":"head of the phrase","gloss":"warned"}]},{"number":136,"label":"52","id":"el-suicida-p52-s1","source":"–No, cuando sea el momento lo despertaremos.","translation":"–No, when the moment comes we'll wake him.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p52-s1.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"cuando sea el momento","title":"Subjunctive after «cuando» (future)","body":"«cuando» pointing at a future, not-yet-real time takes the subjunctive: «cuando sea el momento» = 'when the moment comes'. Use «sea» (present subjunctive), not «es», because the moment has not yet arrived."}],"words":[{"surface":"No","lemma":"no","morphology":"adverb","role":"modifies despertaremos","gloss":"No"},{"surface":"cuando","lemma":"cuando","morphology":"subordinating conjunction","role":"introduces the clause of despertaremos","gloss":"when"},{"surface":"sea","lemma":"ser","morphology":"auxiliary verb, present, subjunctive, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the clause introduced by cuando","gloss":"comes"},{"surface":"el","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, masculine, singular","role":"determiner of momento","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"momento","lemma":"momento","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"subject of sea","gloss":"moment"},{"surface":"lo","lemma":"él","morphology":"pronoun, accusative, masculine, singular","role":"direct object of despertaremos","gloss":"him"},{"surface":"despertaremos","lemma":"despertar","morphology":"verb, future, indicative, first-person, plural","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"we'll wake"}]},{"number":137,"label":"","id":"el-suicida-p52-s2","source":"Faltaban pocos minutos para la llegada del tren.","translation":"It was a few minutes until the train's arrival.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p52-s2.m4a","notes":[],"words":[{"surface":"Faltaban","lemma":"faltar","morphology":"verb, imperfect, indicative, third-person, plural","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"were left"},{"surface":"pocos","lemma":"poco","morphology":"determiner, masculine, plural","role":"determiner of minutos","gloss":"few"},{"surface":"minutos","lemma":"minuto","morphology":"noun, masculine, plural","role":"subject of Faltaban","gloss":"minutes"},{"surface":"para","lemma":"para","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking llegada","gloss":"until"},{"surface":"la","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, feminine, singular","role":"determiner of llegada","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"llegada","lemma":"llegada","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"oblique complement of Faltaban","gloss":"arrival"},{"surface":"del","lemma":"del","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking tren","gloss":"of the"},{"surface":"tren","lemma":"tren","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"modifies llegada","gloss":"train"}]},{"number":138,"label":"","id":"el-suicida-p52-s3","source":"Erdosain lo miró sonriendo al Astrólogo y dijo:","translation":"Erdosain looked at the Astrologer, smiling, and said:","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p52-s3.m4a","notes":[],"words":[{"surface":"Erdosain","lemma":"Erdosain","morphology":"proper noun","role":"subject of miró","gloss":"Erdosain"},{"surface":"lo","lemma":"él","morphology":"pronoun, accusative, masculine, singular","role":"direct object of miró","gloss":"him"},{"surface":"miró","lemma":"mirar","morphology":"verb, past, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"looked at"},{"surface":"sonriendo","lemma":"sonreír","morphology":"verb, gerund","role":"adverbial clause on miró","gloss":"smiling"},{"surface":"al","lemma":"al","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking Astrólogo","gloss":"at"},{"surface":"Astrólogo","lemma":"Astrólogo","morphology":"proper noun","role":"direct object of miró (doubling lo)","gloss":"Astrologer"},{"surface":"y","lemma":"y","morphology":"conjunction","role":"links the coordination","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"dijo","lemma":"decir","morphology":"verb, past, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"coordinated with miró","gloss":"said"}]},{"number":139,"label":"53","id":"el-suicida-p53-s1","source":"–¿Qué haría usted si yo me escapara?","translation":"–What would you do if I escaped?","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p53-s1.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"haría... si... escapara","title":"Present contrary-to-fact condition","body":"A hypothetical present condition uses «si» + imperfect subjunctive plus the conditional: «¿Qué haría usted si yo me escapara?» = 'What would you do if I escaped (= were to escape)?'. The escape is imagined, not real."}],"words":[{"surface":"Qué","lemma":"qué","morphology":"pronoun, singular","role":"direct object of haría","gloss":"what"},{"surface":"haría","lemma":"hacer","morphology":"verb, conditional, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"would you do"},{"surface":"usted","lemma":"usted","morphology":"pronoun, acc,nom, singular","role":"subject of haría","gloss":"you"},{"surface":"si","lemma":"si","morphology":"subordinating conjunction","role":"introduces the clause of escapara","gloss":"if"},{"surface":"yo","lemma":"yo","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, singular","role":"subject of escapara","gloss":"I"},{"surface":"me","lemma":"yo","morphology":"pronoun, accusative, singular","role":"reflexive particle of escapara","gloss":"myself"},{"surface":"escapara","lemma":"escapar","morphology":"verb, imperfect, subjunctive, third-person, singular","role":"adverbial clause on haría","gloss":"escaped"}]},{"number":140,"label":"","id":"el-suicida-p53-s2","source":"El otro, con los dedos en horqueta, se sobó los bigotes, y luego:","translation":"The other, his fingers forked, stroked his mustache, and then:","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p53-s2.m4a","notes":[],"words":[{"surface":"El","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, masculine, singular","role":"determiner of otro","gloss":"The"},{"surface":"otro","lemma":"otro","morphology":"pronoun, masculine, singular","role":"subject of sobó","gloss":"other"},{"surface":"con","lemma":"con","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking dedos","gloss":"with"},{"surface":"los","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, masculine, plural","role":"determiner of dedos","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"dedos","lemma":"dedo","morphology":"noun, masculine, plural","role":"oblique complement of sobó","gloss":"fingers"},{"surface":"en","lemma":"en","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking horqueta","gloss":"in"},{"surface":"horqueta","lemma":"horqueta","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"modifies dedos","gloss":"fork"},{"surface":"se","lemma":"él","morphology":"pronoun, accusative, reflexive","role":"reflexive particle of sobó","gloss":"himself"},{"surface":"sobó","lemma":"sobar","morphology":"verb, past, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"stroked"},{"surface":"los","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, masculine, plural","role":"determiner of bigotes","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"bigotes","lemma":"bigote","morphology":"noun, masculine, plural","role":"direct object of sobó","gloss":"mustache"},{"surface":"y","lemma":"y","morphology":"conjunction","role":"links the coordination","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"luego","lemma":"luego","morphology":"adverb","role":"coordinated with sobó","gloss":"then"}]},{"number":141,"label":"54","id":"el-suicida-p54-s1","source":"–Eso es tan imposible como que el tren que viene aquí no pare aquí.","translation":"–That is as impossible as the train coming here not stopping here.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p54-s1.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"no pare aquí","title":"Subjunctive after «tan... como que»","body":"The comparison «tan imposible como que...» frames a hypothetical, so the verb is subjunctive: «no pare» (present subjunctive of «parar», 'to stop'). It states an absurd, contrary-to-fact scenario for emphasis."}],"words":[{"surface":"Eso","lemma":"ese","morphology":"pronoun, singular","role":"subject of imposible","gloss":"That"},{"surface":"es","lemma":"ser","morphology":"auxiliary verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"copula linking to imposible","gloss":"is"},{"surface":"tan","lemma":"tanto","morphology":"adverb","role":"modifies imposible","gloss":"as"},{"surface":"imposible","lemma":"imposible","morphology":"adjective, singular","role":"head of the phrase","gloss":"impossible"},{"surface":"como","lemma":"como","morphology":"subordinating conjunction","role":"introduces the clause of pare","gloss":"as"},{"surface":"que","lemma":"que","morphology":"subordinating conjunction","role":"introduces the clause of pare","gloss":"that"},{"surface":"el","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, masculine, singular","role":"determiner of tren","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"tren","lemma":"tren","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"subject of pare","gloss":"train"},{"surface":"que","lemma":"que","morphology":"pronoun","role":"subject of viene","gloss":"that"},{"surface":"viene","lemma":"venir","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"clause modifying tren","gloss":"comes"},{"surface":"aquí","lemma":"aquí","morphology":"adverb","role":"modifies viene","gloss":"here"},{"surface":"no","lemma":"no","morphology":"adverb","role":"modifies pare","gloss":"not"},{"surface":"pare","lemma":"parar","morphology":"verb, present, subjunctive, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the que-clause (comparison)","gloss":"stops"},{"surface":"aquí","lemma":"aquí","morphology":"adverb","role":"modifies pare","gloss":"here"}]},{"number":142,"label":"55","id":"el-suicida-p55-s1","source":"–Pero admitámoslo por un momento.","translation":"–But let's admit it for a moment.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p55-s1.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"admitámoslo","title":"«nosotros» command (let's)","body":"«admitámoslo» = «admitamos» ('let's admit', first-person-plural subjunctive) with «lo» attached: 'let's admit it'. The 'let's' command uses the present subjunctive, and object pronouns hook onto the end."}],"words":[{"surface":"Pero","lemma":"pero","morphology":"conjunction","role":"modifies admitámoslo","gloss":"But"},{"surface":"admitámoslo","lemma":"admitir él","morphology":"verb, imperative, first-person, plural","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"let's admit it"},{"surface":"por","lemma":"por","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking momento","gloss":"for"},{"surface":"un","lemma":"uno","morphology":"determiner, masculine, singular","role":"determiner of momento","gloss":"a"},{"surface":"momento","lemma":"momento","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"oblique complement of admitámoslo","gloss":"moment"}]},{"number":143,"label":"56","id":"el-suicida-p56-s1","source":"–No puedo.","translation":"–I cannot.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p56-s1.m4a","notes":[],"words":[{"surface":"No","lemma":"no","morphology":"adverb","role":"modifies puedo","gloss":"not"},{"surface":"puedo","lemma":"poder","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, first-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"I can"}]},{"number":144,"label":"","id":"el-suicida-p56-s2","source":"Si por un momento admitiera eso, no sería usted el que fuera a cobrar el cheque... ¡Ah!... ¿Quién era el que se suicidó esta mañana?","translation":"If for a moment I admitted that, you would not be the one going to cash the check... Ah!... Who was the one who killed himself this morning?","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p56-s2.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"se suicidó","title":"«suicidarse» — pronominal","body":"«suicidarse» ('to kill oneself, commit suicide') is inherently pronominal — it always carries the reflexive «se». «el que se suicidó» = 'the one who killed himself'. The preterite marks the completed act."}],"words":[{"surface":"Si","lemma":"si","morphology":"subordinating conjunction","role":"introduces the clause of admitiera","gloss":"If"},{"surface":"por","lemma":"por","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking momento","gloss":"for"},{"surface":"un","lemma":"uno","morphology":"determiner, masculine, singular","role":"determiner of momento","gloss":"a"},{"surface":"momento","lemma":"momento","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"oblique complement of admitiera","gloss":"moment"},{"surface":"admitiera","lemma":"admitir","morphology":"verb, imperfect, subjunctive, first-person, singular","role":"adverbial clause on sería","gloss":"I admitted"},{"surface":"eso","lemma":"ese","morphology":"pronoun, singular","role":"direct object of admitiera","gloss":"that"},{"surface":"no","lemma":"no","morphology":"adverb","role":"modifies sería","gloss":"not"},{"surface":"sería","lemma":"ser","morphology":"auxiliary verb, conditional, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"would be"},{"surface":"usted","lemma":"usted","morphology":"pronoun, acc,nom, singular","role":"subject of sería","gloss":"you"},{"surface":"el","lemma":"el","morphology":"pronoun, masculine, singular","role":"predicate complement of sería","gloss":"the one"},{"surface":"que","lemma":"que","morphology":"pronoun","role":"subject of fuera","gloss":"who"},{"surface":"fuera","lemma":"ir","morphology":"auxiliary verb, imperfect, subjunctive, third-person, singular","role":"auxiliary of cobrar","gloss":"was going"},{"surface":"a","lemma":"a","morphology":"preposition","role":"introduces the clause of cobrar","gloss":"to"},{"surface":"cobrar","lemma":"cobrar","morphology":"verb, infinitive","role":"complement of fuera","gloss":"cash"},{"surface":"el","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, masculine, singular","role":"determiner of cheque","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"cheque","lemma":"cheque","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"direct object of cobrar","gloss":"check"},{"surface":"Ah","lemma":"ah","morphology":"interjection","role":"head of the phrase","gloss":"Ah"},{"surface":"Quién","lemma":"quién","morphology":"pronoun, singular","role":"subject of era","gloss":"Who"},{"surface":"era","lemma":"ser","morphology":"auxiliary verb, imperfect, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"was"},{"surface":"el","lemma":"el","morphology":"pronoun, masculine, singular","role":"predicate complement of era","gloss":"the one"},{"surface":"que","lemma":"que","morphology":"pronoun","role":"subject of suicidó","gloss":"who"},{"surface":"se","lemma":"él","morphology":"pronoun, accusative, reflexive","role":"reflexive particle of suicidó","gloss":"himself"},{"surface":"suicidó","lemma":"suicidar","morphology":"verb, past, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"clause modifying el","gloss":"killed"},{"surface":"esta","lemma":"este","morphology":"determiner, feminine, singular","role":"determiner of mañana","gloss":"this"},{"surface":"mañana","lemma":"mañana","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"oblique complement of suicidó","gloss":"morning"}]},{"number":145,"label":"57","id":"el-suicida-p57-s1","source":"–Un asesino.","translation":"–A murderer.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p57-s1.m4a","notes":[],"words":[{"surface":"Un","lemma":"uno","morphology":"determiner, masculine, singular","role":"determiner of asesino","gloss":"A"},{"surface":"asesino","lemma":"asesino","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"head of the phrase","gloss":"murderer"}]},{"number":146,"label":"","id":"el-suicida-p57-s2","source":"Curioso.","translation":"Strange.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p57-s2.m4a","notes":[],"words":[{"surface":"Curioso","lemma":"curioso","morphology":"adjective, masculine, singular","role":"head of the phrase","gloss":"Strange"}]},{"number":147,"label":"","id":"el-suicida-p57-s3","source":"Mató a una muchachita que no quería ir a vivir con él.","translation":"He killed a young girl who didn't want to go and live with him.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p57-s3.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"Mató a una muchachita","title":"The personal «a»","body":"When the direct object is a specific person, Spanish inserts the 'personal a': «mató a una muchachita» = 'he killed a young girl'. The «a» has no English equivalent; it simply marks a human object."}],"words":[{"surface":"Mató","lemma":"matar","morphology":"verb, past, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"killed"},{"surface":"a","lemma":"a","morphology":"preposition","role":"marks the direct object muchachita","gloss":"(object marker)"},{"surface":"una","lemma":"uno","morphology":"determiner, feminine, singular","role":"determiner of muchachita","gloss":"a"},{"surface":"muchachita","lemma":"muchachita","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"direct object of Mató","gloss":"young girl"},{"surface":"que","lemma":"que","morphology":"pronoun","role":"subject of quería","gloss":"who"},{"surface":"no","lemma":"no","morphology":"adverb","role":"modifies quería","gloss":"not"},{"surface":"quería","lemma":"querer","morphology":"verb, imperfect, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"clause modifying muchachita","gloss":"wanted"},{"surface":"ir","lemma":"ir","morphology":"verb, infinitive","role":"complement of quería","gloss":"go"},{"surface":"a","lemma":"a","morphology":"preposition","role":"introduces the clause of vivir","gloss":"to"},{"surface":"vivir","lemma":"vivir","morphology":"verb, infinitive","role":"complement of ir","gloss":"live"},{"surface":"con","lemma":"con","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking él","gloss":"with"},{"surface":"él","lemma":"él","morphology":"pronoun, acc,nom, masculine, singular","role":"oblique complement of vivir","gloss":"him"}]},{"number":148,"label":"58","id":"el-suicida-p58-s1","source":"–Fuerzas perdidas.","translation":"–Wasted energies.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p58-s1.m4a","notes":[],"words":[{"surface":"Fuerzas","lemma":"fuerza","morphology":"noun, feminine, plural","role":"head of the phrase","gloss":"Energies"},{"surface":"perdidas","lemma":"perdido","morphology":"adjective, feminine, plural","role":"modifies Fuerzas","gloss":"wasted"}]},{"number":149,"label":"59","id":"el-suicida-p59-s1","source":"–¿Y usted sería capaz de matarse?","translation":"–And would you be capable of killing yourself?","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p59-s1.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"ser capaz de","title":"«ser capaz de» — to be capable of","body":"«ser capaz de» + infinitive means 'to be capable of / able to bring oneself to' doing something. «¿sería capaz de matarse?» = 'would you be capable of killing yourself?'. «matarse» is the pronominal 'to kill oneself'."}],"words":[{"surface":"Y","lemma":"y","morphology":"conjunction","role":"links the coordination","gloss":"And"},{"surface":"usted","lemma":"usted","morphology":"pronoun, acc,nom, singular","role":"subject of sería","gloss":"you"},{"surface":"sería","lemma":"ser","morphology":"auxiliary verb, conditional, third-person, singular","role":"copula linking to capaz","gloss":"would be"},{"surface":"capaz","lemma":"capaz","morphology":"adjective, singular","role":"head of the phrase","gloss":"capable"},{"surface":"de","lemma":"de","morphology":"preposition","role":"introduces the clause of matarse","gloss":"of"},{"surface":"matarse","lemma":"matarse","morphology":"verb, infinitive","role":"clause modifying capaz","gloss":"killing yourself"}]},{"number":150,"label":"60","id":"el-suicida-p60-s1","source":"–No... Usted comprende que yo estoy destinado para un fin más alto.","translation":"–No... You understand that I am destined for a higher purpose.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p60-s1.m4a","notes":[],"words":[{"surface":"No","lemma":"no","morphology":"adverb","role":"head of the phrase","gloss":"No"},{"surface":"Usted","lemma":"usted","morphology":"pronoun, acc,nom, singular","role":"subject of comprende","gloss":"You"},{"surface":"comprende","lemma":"comprender","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"understand"},{"surface":"que","lemma":"que","morphology":"subordinating conjunction","role":"introduces the clause of estoy","gloss":"that"},{"surface":"yo","lemma":"yo","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, singular","role":"subject of estoy","gloss":"I"},{"surface":"estoy","lemma":"estar","morphology":"auxiliary verb, present, indicative, first-person, singular","role":"copula linking to destinado","gloss":"am"},{"surface":"destinado","lemma":"destinado","morphology":"adjective, masculine, singular","role":"clausal complement of comprende","gloss":"destined"},{"surface":"para","lemma":"para","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking fin","gloss":"for"},{"surface":"un","lemma":"uno","morphology":"determiner, masculine, singular","role":"determiner of fin","gloss":"a"},{"surface":"fin","lemma":"fin","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"oblique complement of destinado","gloss":"purpose"},{"surface":"más","lemma":"más","morphology":"adverb","role":"modifies alto","gloss":"more"},{"surface":"alto","lemma":"alto","morphology":"adjective, masculine, singular","role":"modifies fin","gloss":"high"}]},{"number":151,"label":"","id":"el-suicida-p60-s2","source":"Erdosain lanzó una pregunta extraña:","translation":"Erdosain threw out a strange question:","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p60-s2.m4a","notes":[],"words":[{"surface":"Erdosain","lemma":"Erdosain","morphology":"proper noun","role":"subject of lanzó","gloss":"Erdosain"},{"surface":"lanzó","lemma":"lanzar","morphology":"verb, past, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"threw out"},{"surface":"una","lemma":"uno","morphology":"determiner, feminine, singular","role":"determiner of pregunta","gloss":"a"},{"surface":"pregunta","lemma":"pregunta","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"direct object of lanzó","gloss":"question"},{"surface":"extraña","lemma":"extraño","morphology":"adjective, feminine, singular","role":"modifies pregunta","gloss":"strange"}]},{"number":152,"label":"61","id":"el-suicida-p61-s1","source":"–Dígame, ¿usted cree que las pelirrojas son crueles?","translation":"–Tell me, do you think redheaded women are cruel?","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p61-s1.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"pelirrojas","title":"«pelirrojo/a» — redheaded","body":"«pelirrojo/a» means 'red-haired, a redhead' (from «pelo» + «rojo»). Erdosain's obsession with the red-haired Hipólita threads through the chapter; here he asks the Astrologer about redheads as a type."}],"words":[{"surface":"Dígame","lemma":"decir","morphology":"verb, imperative, third-person, singular","role":"parallel clause to cree","gloss":"Tell me"},{"surface":"usted","lemma":"usted","morphology":"pronoun, acc,nom, singular","role":"subject of cree","gloss":"you"},{"surface":"cree","lemma":"creer","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"think"},{"surface":"que","lemma":"que","morphology":"subordinating conjunction","role":"introduces the clause of son","gloss":"that"},{"surface":"las","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, feminine, plural","role":"determiner of pelirrojas","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"pelirrojas","lemma":"pelirroja","morphology":"noun, feminine, plural","role":"subject of son","gloss":"redheaded women"},{"surface":"son","lemma":"ser","morphology":"auxiliary verb, present, indicative, third-person, plural","role":"copula linking to crueles","gloss":"are"},{"surface":"crueles","lemma":"cruel","morphology":"adjective, plural","role":"clausal complement of cree","gloss":"cruel"}]},{"number":153,"label":"62","id":"el-suicida-p62-s1","source":"–Tanto no... pero más bien asexuales; de allí que esa frialdad con que examinan las cosas causa una impresión agria.","translation":"–Not so much... rather asexual; hence that coldness with which they examine things makes a sour impression.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p62-s1.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"más bien","title":"«más bien» — rather","body":"«más bien» is an idiom meaning 'rather, sooner, more like'. «más bien asexuales» = 'rather asexual / more like asexual'. «de allí que» = 'hence, that is why'."}],"words":[{"surface":"Tanto","lemma":"tanto","morphology":"adverb","role":"modifies no","gloss":"so much"},{"surface":"no","lemma":"no","morphology":"adverb","role":"head of the phrase","gloss":"not"},{"surface":"pero","lemma":"pero","morphology":"conjunction","role":"links the coordination","gloss":"but"},{"surface":"más","lemma":"más","morphology":"adverb","role":"modifies bien","gloss":"more"},{"surface":"bien","lemma":"bien","morphology":"adverb","role":"modifies asexuales","gloss":"rather","note":"\"Más bien\" together mean \"rather.\""},{"surface":"asexuales","lemma":"asexual","morphology":"adjective, plural","role":"coordinated with crueles","gloss":"asexual"},{"surface":"de","lemma":"de","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking allí","gloss":"hence","note":"\"De allí que\" is an idiom meaning \"hence / that's why.\""},{"surface":"allí","lemma":"allí","morphology":"adverb","role":"part of the phrase de","gloss":"there"},{"surface":"que","lemma":"que","morphology":"subordinating conjunction","role":"introduces the clause of causa","gloss":"that"},{"surface":"esa","lemma":"ese","morphology":"determiner, feminine, singular","role":"determiner of frialdad","gloss":"that"},{"surface":"frialdad","lemma":"frialdad","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"subject of causa","gloss":"coldness"},{"surface":"con","lemma":"con","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking que","gloss":"with"},{"surface":"que","lemma":"que","morphology":"pronoun","role":"oblique complement of examinan","gloss":"which"},{"surface":"examinan","lemma":"examinar","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, plural","role":"clause modifying frialdad","gloss":"they examine"},{"surface":"las","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, feminine, plural","role":"determiner of cosas","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"cosas","lemma":"cosa","morphology":"noun, feminine, plural","role":"direct object of examinan","gloss":"things"},{"surface":"causa","lemma":"causar","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"clausal complement of de","gloss":"causes"},{"surface":"una","lemma":"uno","morphology":"determiner, feminine, singular","role":"determiner of impresión","gloss":"a"},{"surface":"impresión","lemma":"impresión","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"direct object of causa","gloss":"impression"},{"surface":"agria","lemma":"agrio","morphology":"adjective, feminine, singular","role":"modifies impresión","gloss":"sour"}]},{"number":154,"label":"","id":"el-suicida-p62-s2","source":"El Rufián Melancólico me contaba que en su larga carrera de macró había conocido muy pocas prostitutas de cabello rojo... Ya sabe.","translation":"The Melancholy Pimp used to tell me that in his long career as a pimp he had known very few red-haired prostitutes... You know.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p62-s2.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"macró","title":"«macró» — pimp (lunfardo)","body":"«macró» is «lunfardo» (Buenos Aires underworld slang, from French «maquereau») for 'pimp'. The character is even nicknamed «el Rufián Melancólico» ('the Melancholy Pimp'). Such slang roots the novel in the city's criminal demimonde."}],"words":[{"surface":"El","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, masculine, singular","role":"determiner of Rufián","gloss":"The"},{"surface":"Rufián","lemma":"Rufián","morphology":"proper noun","role":"subject of contaba","gloss":"Pimp"},{"surface":"Melancólico","lemma":"Melancólico","morphology":"proper noun","role":"part of the name Rufián","gloss":"Melancholy"},{"surface":"me","lemma":"yo","morphology":"pronoun, dative, singular","role":"indirect object of contaba","gloss":"me"},{"surface":"contaba","lemma":"contar","morphology":"verb, imperfect, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"used to tell"},{"surface":"que","lemma":"que","morphology":"subordinating conjunction","role":"introduces the clause of había","gloss":"that"},{"surface":"en","lemma":"en","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking carrera","gloss":"in"},{"surface":"su","lemma":"su","morphology":"determiner, singular","role":"determiner of carrera","gloss":"his"},{"surface":"larga","lemma":"largo","morphology":"adjective, feminine, singular","role":"modifies carrera","gloss":"long"},{"surface":"carrera","lemma":"carrera","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"oblique complement of conocido","gloss":"career"},{"surface":"de","lemma":"de","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking macró","gloss":"as"},{"surface":"macró","lemma":"macró","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"modifies carrera","gloss":"pimp","note":"\"Macró\" is lunfardo slang for \"pimp.\""},{"surface":"había","lemma":"haber","morphology":"auxiliary verb, imperfect, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"auxiliary of conocido","gloss":"had"},{"surface":"conocido","lemma":"conocer","morphology":"verb, past, participle, masculine, singular","role":"clausal complement of contaba","gloss":"known"},{"surface":"muy","lemma":"muy","morphology":"adverb","role":"modifies pocas","gloss":"very"},{"surface":"pocas","lemma":"poco","morphology":"determiner, feminine, plural","role":"determiner of prostitutas","gloss":"few"},{"surface":"prostitutas","lemma":"prostituta","morphology":"noun, feminine, plural","role":"direct object of conocido","gloss":"prostitutes"},{"surface":"de","lemma":"de","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking cabello","gloss":"with"},{"surface":"cabello","lemma":"cabello","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"modifies prostitutas","gloss":"hair"},{"surface":"rojo","lemma":"rojo","morphology":"adjective, masculine, singular","role":"modifies cabello","gloss":"red"},{"surface":"Ya","lemma":"ya","morphology":"adverb","role":"modifies sabe","gloss":"already"},{"surface":"sabe","lemma":"saber","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"you know"}]},{"number":155,"label":"","id":"el-suicida-p62-s3","source":"No se olvide de afeitarse.","translation":"Don't forget to shave.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p62-s3.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"No se olvide","title":"Negative «usted» command","body":"A negative formal command keeps the pronoun before the verb: «no se olvide» = 'don't forget' (vs. affirmative «olvídese»). «olvidarse de» + infinitive = 'to forget to'; «afeitarse» = 'to shave (oneself)'."}],"words":[{"surface":"No","lemma":"no","morphology":"adverb","role":"modifies olvide","gloss":"Don't"},{"surface":"se","lemma":"él","morphology":"pronoun, accusative, reflexive","role":"part of the verb olvidarse","gloss":"(reflexive)","note":"\"Olvidarse\" (\"se\" + \"olvidar\") is reflexive for \"to forget\"; \"se\" has no separate translation here."},{"surface":"olvide","lemma":"olvidar","morphology":"verb, negative imperative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"forget"},{"surface":"de","lemma":"de","morphology":"preposition","role":"introduces the clause of afeitarse","gloss":"to"},{"surface":"afeitarse","lemma":"afeitarse","morphology":"verb, infinitive","role":"complement of olvide","gloss":"shave"}]},{"number":156,"label":"","id":"el-suicida-p62-s4","source":"Vaya al banco a las once, no antes.","translation":"Go to the bank at eleven, not before.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p62-s4.m4a","notes":[],"words":[{"surface":"Vaya","lemma":"ir","morphology":"verb, imperative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"Go"},{"surface":"al","lemma":"al","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking banco","gloss":"to the"},{"surface":"banco","lemma":"banco","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"oblique complement of Vaya","gloss":"bank"},{"surface":"a","lemma":"a","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking once","gloss":"at"},{"surface":"las","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, feminine, plural","role":"determiner of once","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"once","lemma":"once","morphology":"numeral, plural","role":"oblique complement of Vaya","gloss":"eleven"},{"surface":"no","lemma":"no","morphology":"adverb","role":"modifies antes","gloss":"not"},{"surface":"antes","lemma":"antes","morphology":"adverb","role":"modifies once","gloss":"before"}]},{"number":157,"label":"","id":"el-suicida-p62-s5","source":"¿Usted almuerza conmigo hoy, no?","translation":"You're lunching with me today, right?","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p62-s5.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"almuerza","title":"Stem change: «almorzar»","body":"«almorzar» ('to have lunch') is a stem-changing verb (o→ue): «yo almuerzo», «usted almuerza». The o becomes ue in the stressed forms. «conmigo» = 'with me' (a special fused form of «con» + «mí»)."}],"words":[{"surface":"Usted","lemma":"usted","morphology":"pronoun, acc,nom, singular","role":"subject of almuerza","gloss":"You"},{"surface":"almuerza","lemma":"almorzar","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"are lunching"},{"surface":"conmigo","lemma":"yo","morphology":"pronoun, first-person, singular","role":"oblique complement of almuerza","gloss":"with me"},{"surface":"hoy","lemma":"hoy","morphology":"adverb","role":"modifies almuerza","gloss":"today"},{"surface":"no","lemma":"no","morphology":"adverb","role":"tag question","gloss":"right?"}]},{"number":158,"label":"63","id":"el-suicida-p63-s1","source":"Sí, hasta luego.","translation":"Yes, see you later.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p63-s1.m4a","notes":[],"words":[{"surface":"Sí","lemma":"sí","morphology":"adverb","role":"head of the phrase","gloss":"Yes"},{"surface":"hasta","lemma":"hasta","morphology":"preposition","role":"part of the farewell phrase","gloss":"until","note":"\"Hasta luego\" is a fixed farewell meaning \"see you later.\""},{"surface":"luego","lemma":"luego","morphology":"adverb","role":"object of hasta","gloss":"later"}]},{"number":159,"label":"64","id":"el-suicida-p64-s1","source":"Tras de Erdosain subió el Mayor, que le hizo una amistosa señal al Astrólogo.","translation":"Behind Erdosain the Major boarded, giving the Astrologer a friendly sign.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p64-s1.m4a","notes":[],"words":[{"surface":"Tras","lemma":"tras","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking Erdosain","gloss":"Behind"},{"surface":"de","lemma":"de","morphology":"preposition","role":"part of the phrase tras","gloss":"of"},{"surface":"Erdosain","lemma":"Erdosain","morphology":"proper noun","role":"oblique complement of subió","gloss":"Erdosain"},{"surface":"subió","lemma":"subir","morphology":"verb, past, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"boarded"},{"surface":"el","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, masculine, singular","role":"determiner of Mayor","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"Mayor","lemma":"Mayor","morphology":"proper noun","role":"subject of subió","gloss":"Major"},{"surface":"que","lemma":"que","morphology":"pronoun","role":"subject of hizo","gloss":"who"},{"surface":"le","lemma":"él","morphology":"pronoun, dative, singular","role":"indirect object of hizo","gloss":"him"},{"surface":"hizo","lemma":"hacer","morphology":"verb, past, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"clause modifying Mayor","gloss":"gave"},{"surface":"una","lemma":"uno","morphology":"determiner, feminine, singular","role":"determiner of señal","gloss":"a"},{"surface":"amistosa","lemma":"amistoso","morphology":"adjective, feminine, singular","role":"modifies 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third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"saw"}]},{"number":161,"label":"","id":"el-suicida-p64-s3","source":"Y ya hundido y en su butaca, Erdosain pensó:","translation":"And already sunk down in his seat, Erdosain thought:","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p64-s3.m4a","notes":[],"words":[{"surface":"Y","lemma":"y","morphology":"conjunction","role":"links the coordination","gloss":"And"},{"surface":"ya","lemma":"ya","morphology":"adverb","role":"modifies hundido","gloss":"already"},{"surface":"hundido","lemma":"hundido","morphology":"adjective, masculine, singular","role":"adverbial clause on pensó","gloss":"sunk down"},{"surface":"y","lemma":"y","morphology":"conjunction","role":"links the coordination","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"en","lemma":"en","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking butaca","gloss":"in"},{"surface":"su","lemma":"su","morphology":"determiner, singular","role":"determiner of butaca","gloss":"his"},{"surface":"butaca","lemma":"butaca","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"coordinated with hundido","gloss":"seat"},{"surface":"Erdosain","lemma":"Erdosain","morphology":"proper noun","role":"subject of pensó","gloss":"Erdosain"},{"surface":"pensó","lemma":"pensar","morphology":"verb, past, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"thought"}]},{"number":162,"label":"65","id":"el-suicida-p65-s1","source":"–Es un hombre extraordinario.","translation":"–He is an extraordinary man.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p65-s1.m4a","notes":[],"words":[{"surface":"Es","lemma":"ser","morphology":"auxiliary verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"copula linking to hombre","gloss":"is"},{"surface":"un","lemma":"uno","morphology":"determiner, masculine, singular","role":"determiner of hombre","gloss":"an"},{"surface":"hombre","lemma":"hombre","morphology":"noun, masculine, 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If he hits the mark on the other things as he did on this one, he'll triumph –and overcome by the swaying of the train, he dozed off again.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p65-s2.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"Si acierta... triunfará","title":"Real (open) condition","body":"A condition presented as genuinely possible uses «si» + present indicative plus the future: «si acierta... triunfará» = 'if he hits the mark... he'll triumph'. This open conditional contrasts with the unreal «si admitiera... sería» seen earlier."}],"words":[{"surface":"Cómo","lemma":"cómo","morphology":"adverb","role":"modifies conocido","gloss":"How"},{"surface":"diablos","lemma":"diablo","morphology":"noun, masculine, plural","role":"modifies Cómo","gloss":"the devil","note":"\"Cómo diablos\" is an idiom meaning \"how the devil / how on earth.\""},{"surface":"ha","lemma":"haber","morphology":"auxiliary verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"auxiliary of conocido","gloss":"has"},{"surface":"conocido","lemma":"conocer","morphology":"verb, past, participle, masculine, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"known"},{"surface":"que","lemma":"que","morphology":"subordinating conjunction","role":"introduces the clause of engañaré","gloss":"that"},{"surface":"no","lemma":"no","morphology":"adverb","role":"modifies engañaré","gloss":"not"},{"surface":"lo","lemma":"él","morphology":"pronoun, accusative, masculine, 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estaba","gloss":"Major"}]},{"number":165,"label":"","id":"el-suicida-p65-s4","source":"Y ya en el banco, con el corazón golpeando fuertemente, se acercó a la ventanilla cuando el empleado pagador lo llamó:","translation":"And now at the bank, his heart pounding hard, he stepped up to the teller's window when the paying clerk called him:","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p65-s4.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"la ventanilla","title":"«ventanilla» — teller's window","body":"«ventanilla» is the diminutive of «ventana» ('window') and means a small service window — a bank teller's, ticket, or counter window. Here, the bank counter where Erdosain cashes the check."}],"words":[{"surface":"Y","lemma":"y","morphology":"conjunction","role":"links the coordination","gloss":"And"},{"surface":"ya","lemma":"ya","morphology":"adverb","role":"modifies acercó","gloss":"now"},{"surface":"en","lemma":"en","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking banco","gloss":"at"},{"surface":"el","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, masculine, singular","role":"determiner of banco","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"banco","lemma":"banco","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"oblique complement of acercó","gloss":"bank"},{"surface":"con","lemma":"con","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking corazón","gloss":"with"},{"surface":"el","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, masculine, singular","role":"determiner of corazón","gloss":"his"},{"surface":"corazón","lemma":"corazón","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"subject of golpeando","gloss":"heart"},{"surface":"golpeando","lemma":"golpear","morphology":"verb, gerund","role":"adverbial clause on acercó","gloss":"pounding"},{"surface":"fuertemente","lemma":"fuertemente","morphology":"adverb","role":"modifies golpeando","gloss":"hard"},{"surface":"se","lemma":"él","morphology":"pronoun, accusative, reflexive","role":"reflexive particle of acercó","gloss":"up"},{"surface":"acercó","lemma":"acercar","morphology":"verb, past, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"stepped"},{"surface":"a","lemma":"a","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking ventanilla","gloss":"to"},{"surface":"la","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, feminine, singular","role":"determiner of ventanilla","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"ventanilla","lemma":"ventanilla","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"oblique complement of acercó","gloss":"window"},{"surface":"cuando","lemma":"cuando","morphology":"subordinating conjunction","role":"introduces the clause of llamó","gloss":"when"},{"surface":"el","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, masculine, singular","role":"determiner of empleado","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"empleado","lemma":"empleado","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"subject of llamó","gloss":"clerk"},{"surface":"pagador","lemma":"pagador","morphology":"adjective, masculine, singular","role":"modifies empleado","gloss":"paying"},{"surface":"lo","lemma":"él","morphology":"pronoun, accusative, masculine, singular","role":"direct object of llamó","gloss":"him"},{"surface":"llamó","lemma":"llamar","morphology":"verb, past, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"adverbial clause on acercó","gloss":"called"}]},{"number":166,"label":"66","id":"el-suicida-p66-s1","source":"–¿Quiere grueso o menudo?","translation":"–Do you want it in large bills or small?","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p66-s1.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"grueso o menudo","title":"«grueso» / «menudo» — large / small change","body":"Here «grueso» ('thick, large') means large-denomination bills and «menudo» ('small, fine') means small bills or change. The clerk is asking how Erdosain wants the cash broken down."}],"words":[{"surface":"Quiere","lemma":"querer","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"want"},{"surface":"grueso","lemma":"grueso","morphology":"adjective, masculine, singular","role":"direct object of Quiere","gloss":"large"},{"surface":"o","lemma":"o","morphology":"conjunction","role":"links the coordination","gloss":"or"},{"surface":"menudo","lemma":"menudo","morphology":"adjective, masculine, singular","role":"coordinated with grueso","gloss":"small"}]},{"number":167,"label":"67","id":"el-suicida-p67-s1","source":"–Grueso.","translation":"–Large.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p67-s1.m4a","notes":[],"words":[{"surface":"Grueso","lemma":"grueso","morphology":"adjective, masculine, singular","role":"head of the phrase","gloss":"Large"}]},{"number":168,"label":"68","id":"el-suicida-p68-s1","source":"–Firme.","translation":"–Sign.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p68-s1.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"Firme","title":"«firme» — formal command","body":"«firme» is the «usted» imperative of «firmar» ('to sign'): 'sign'. 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It would take the subjunctive only for a hypothetical 'even if'."}],"words":[{"surface":"Y","lemma":"y","morphology":"conjunction","role":"coordinates the sentence with what precedes","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"aunque","lemma":"aunque","morphology":"subordinating conjunction","role":"introduces the clause of deseaba","gloss":"although"},{"surface":"Erdosain","lemma":"Erdosain","morphology":"proper noun","role":"subject of deseaba","gloss":"Erdosain"},{"surface":"deseaba","lemma":"desear","morphology":"verb, imperfect, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the aunque clause","gloss":"longed"},{"surface":"huir","lemma":"huir","morphology":"verb, infinitive","role":"complement of deseaba","gloss":"to flee"},{"surface":"de","lemma":"de","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking miedo","gloss":"out of"},{"surface":"miedo","lemma":"miedo","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"oblique complement of 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The adjective agrees with the subject. Plain «sentir» without «se» means 'to feel / sense (something)' or 'to be sorry'."}],"words":[{"surface":"Erdosain","lemma":"Erdosain","morphology":"proper noun","role":"subject of sintió","gloss":"Erdosain"},{"surface":"se","lemma":"él","morphology":"pronoun, accusative, reflexive","role":"reflexive particle of sintió","gloss":"himself","note":"reflexive particle required by 'sentirse' (to feel); has no separate translation."},{"surface":"sintió","lemma":"sentir","morphology":"verb, past, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"felt"},{"surface":"feliz","lemma":"feliz","morphology":"adjective, singular","role":"predicate complement of sintió","gloss":"happy"}]},{"number":174,"label":"","id":"el-suicida-p71-s2","source":"Pensó que en otros climas y bajo un espacio siempre azul como el que miraba debían existir mujeres singulares, de cabelleras lujosas y rostros lisos, con grandes ojos almendrados, sombrosos en la oscuridad de las largas pestañas.","translation":"He thought that in other climates and beneath an ever-blue expanse like the one he was looking at, there must exist singular women, with luxuriant heads of hair and smooth faces, with great almond-shaped eyes, shadowy in the darkness of their long lashes.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p71-s2.m4a","notes":[],"words":[{"surface":"Pensó","lemma":"pensar","morphology":"verb, past, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"thought"},{"surface":"que","lemma":"que","morphology":"subordinating conjunction","role":"introduces the clause of existir","gloss":"that"},{"surface":"en","lemma":"en","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking climas","gloss":"in"},{"surface":"otros","lemma":"otro","morphology":"determiner, masculine, plural","role":"determiner of climas","gloss":"other"},{"surface":"climas","lemma":"clima","morphology":"noun, masculine, plural","role":"oblique complement of 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semejante a un emperador venido a menos, sin reparar que su prestancia seducía a las planchadoras que pasaban con la cesta bajo el brazo, y emocionaba a las pantaloneras que regresaban de las tiendas con pesados bultos.","translation":"And the Astrologer's rhomboidal face, with the tips of his mustache trailing down along the corners of his lips, and his cab-driver's top hat, filled him with enthusiasm; then he thought that, joined to the society, he could go on with his experiments in electrical engineering, and now he crossed the streets like an emperor come down in the world, not noticing that his bearing seduced the laundresses who passed with baskets under their arms, and stirred the trouser-makers returning from the shops with heavy bundles.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p72-s1.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"venido a menos","title":"«venir a menos» — to come down in the world","body":"«venir a menos» is an idiom meaning 'to decline, fall on 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sat the old diplomats — bald heads, leaden faces, hard and furtive looks.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p73-s5.m4a","notes":[],"words":[{"surface":"En","lemma":"en","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking rededor","gloss":"All","note":"\"En rededor\" is a fixed adverbial phrase meaning \"all around, round about.\""},{"surface":"rededor","lemma":"rededor","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"oblique complement of estaban","gloss":"around"},{"surface":"hundidos","lemma":"hundido","morphology":"adjective, masculine, plural","role":"modifies diplomáticos","gloss":"sunk"},{"surface":"en","lemma":"en","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking poltronas","gloss":"into"},{"surface":"las","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, feminine, plural","role":"determiner of poltronas","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"poltronas","lemma":"poltrona","morphology":"noun, feminine, plural","role":"oblique complement of 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Another quiet marker of the Buenos Aires register."}],"words":[{"surface":"Su","lemma":"su","morphology":"determiner, singular","role":"determiner of busto","gloss":"His"},{"surface":"busto","lemma":"busto","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"subject of reflejaba","gloss":"torso"},{"surface":"modelado","lemma":"modelado","morphology":"adjective, masculine, singular","role":"modifies busto","gloss":"molded"},{"surface":"por","lemma":"por","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking saco","gloss":"by"},{"surface":"un","lemma":"uno","morphology":"determiner, masculine, singular","role":"determiner of saco","gloss":"a"},{"surface":"negro","lemma":"negro","morphology":"adjective, masculine, singular","role":"modifies saco","gloss":"black"},{"surface":"saco","lemma":"saco","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"oblique complement of modelado","gloss":"jacket"},{"surface":"cruzado","lemma":"cruzado","morphology":"adjective, masculine, 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una mentira metafísica, ellos robustecerían el clero, instaurarían una inquisición para cercenar toda herejía que socavara los cimientos del dogma o la unidad de creencia que sería la absoluta unidad de la felicidad humana, y el hombre restituido al primitivo estado de sociedad, se dedicaría como en tiempos de los faraones a las tareas agrícolas.","translation":"And since man, to be happy, needs to rest his hopes on a metaphysical lie, they would strengthen the clergy, would set up an inquisition to cut away every heresy that might undermine the foundations of dogma or the unity of belief that would be the absolute unity of human happiness, and man, restored to the primitive state of society, would devote himself, as in the time of the pharaohs, to agricultural labor.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p79-s2.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"toda herejía que socavara","title":"Subjunctive in a relative clause","body":"When the antecedent is hypothetical or 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derramarán","gloss":"vibrios"},{"surface":"de","lemma":"de","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking cólera","gloss":"of"},{"surface":"cólera","lemma":"cólera","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"modifies vibriones","gloss":"cholera"},{"surface":"asiático","lemma":"asiático","morphology":"adjective, masculine, singular","role":"modifies cólera","gloss":"Asiatic"}]},{"number":207,"label":"81","id":"el-suicida-p81-s1","source":"«El hombre vivirá en plena etapa de milagro, y será millonario de fe.","translation":"\"Man will live in the full age of miracle, and will be a millionaire of faith.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p81-s1.m4a","notes":[],"words":[{"surface":"El","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, masculine, singular","role":"determiner of hombre","gloss":"The"},{"surface":"hombre","lemma":"hombre","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"subject of vivirá","gloss":"Man"},{"surface":"vivirá","lemma":"vivir","morphology":"verb, future, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"will live"},{"surface":"en","lemma":"en","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking etapa","gloss":"in"},{"surface":"plena","lemma":"pleno","morphology":"adjective, feminine, singular","role":"modifies etapa","gloss":"full"},{"surface":"etapa","lemma":"etapa","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"oblique complement of vivirá","gloss":"age"},{"surface":"de","lemma":"de","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking milagro","gloss":"of"},{"surface":"milagro","lemma":"milagro","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"modifies etapa","gloss":"miracle"},{"surface":"y","lemma":"y","morphology":"conjunction","role":"links the coordination","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"será","lemma":"ser","morphology":"auxiliary verb, future, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"copula, coordinated with vivirá","gloss":"will be"},{"surface":"millonario","lemma":"millonario","morphology":"adjective, masculine, singular","role":"predicate complement of será","gloss":"a millionaire"},{"surface":"de","lemma":"de","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking fe","gloss":"of"},{"surface":"fe","lemma":"fe","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"modifies millonario","gloss":"faith"}]},{"number":208,"label":"","id":"el-suicida-p81-s2","source":"Durante las noches proyectaremos en las nubes, con poderosos reflectores, la «entrada del Justo en el Cielo».","translation":"By night we will project onto the clouds, with powerful searchlights, the \"entry of the Just Man into Heaven\".","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p81-s2.m4a","notes":[],"words":[{"surface":"Durante","lemma":"durante","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking noches","gloss":"During"},{"surface":"las","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, feminine, 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reflectores","gloss":"powerful"},{"surface":"reflectores","lemma":"reflector","morphology":"noun, masculine, plural","role":"oblique complement of proyectaremos","gloss":"searchlights"},{"surface":"la","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, feminine, singular","role":"determiner of entrada","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"entrada","lemma":"entrada","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"direct object of proyectaremos","gloss":"entry"},{"surface":"del","lemma":"del","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking Justo","gloss":"of the"},{"surface":"Justo","lemma":"justo","morphology":"adjective used as noun, masculine, singular","role":"modifies entrada","gloss":"Just Man"},{"surface":"en","lemma":"en","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking Cielo","gloss":"into"},{"surface":"el","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, masculine, singular","role":"determiner of Cielo","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"Cielo","lemma":"cielo","morphology":"proper noun","role":"oblique complement of entrada (destination)","gloss":"Heaven"}]},{"number":209,"label":"","id":"el-suicida-p81-s3","source":"¿Se imaginan ustedes?","translation":"Can you imagine?","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p81-s3.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"¿Se imaginan ustedes?","title":"«ustedes» — plural 'you'","body":"Addressing the Ambassadors as a group, he uses «ustedes» ('you all') with the third-person-plural verb: «¿se imaginan ustedes?» = 'can you (all) imagine?'. «imaginarse» is the pronominal 'to imagine, picture'."}],"words":[{"surface":"Se","lemma":"él","morphology":"pronoun, accusative, reflexive","role":"reflexive particle of imaginan","gloss":"yourselves"},{"surface":"imaginan","lemma":"imaginar","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, plural","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"imagine"},{"surface":"ustedes","lemma":"tú","morphology":"pronoun, acc,nom, plural","role":"subject of imaginan","gloss":"you"}]},{"number":210,"label":"","id":"el-suicida-p81-s4","source":"Súbitamente, por sobre las montañas surge un rayo verde y lila, y las nubes se cubren de un jardín donde el aire blanco flota como copos de nieve.","translation":"Suddenly, up over the mountains a green and lilac ray springs forth, and the clouds clothe themselves in a garden where the white air floats like snowflakes.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p81-s4.m4a","notes":[],"words":[{"surface":"Súbitamente","lemma":"súbitamente","morphology":"adverb","role":"modifies surge","gloss":"Suddenly"},{"surface":"por","lemma":"por","morphology":"preposition","role":"part of por sobre, marking montañas","gloss":"up"},{"surface":"sobre","lemma":"sobre","morphology":"preposition","role":"part of por sobre, marking montañas","gloss":"over"},{"surface":"las","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, feminine, plural","role":"determiner of 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relative","role":"introduces relative clause modifying jardín","gloss":"where"},{"surface":"el","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, masculine, singular","role":"determiner of aire","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"aire","lemma":"aire","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"subject of flota","gloss":"air"},{"surface":"blanco","lemma":"blanco","morphology":"adjective, masculine, singular","role":"modifies aire","gloss":"white"},{"surface":"flota","lemma":"flotar","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"verb of the donde-clause; aire is its subject","gloss":"floats"},{"surface":"como","lemma":"como","morphology":"subordinating conjunction","role":"introduces the comparison with copos","gloss":"like"},{"surface":"copos","lemma":"copo","morphology":"noun, masculine, plural","role":"object of como, compared with flota","gloss":"flakes"},{"surface":"de","lemma":"de","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking nieve","gloss":"of"},{"surface":"nieve","lemma":"nieve","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"modifies copos","gloss":"snow"}]},{"number":211,"label":"","id":"el-suicida-p81-s5","source":"Un ángel de alas color de rosa cruza los canteros, se detiene ante la verja del Paraíso, y con los brazos abiertos los recibe al «Justo», un hombre de pueblo, con sombrero abollado, larga barba y garrote.","translation":"An angel with rose-colored wings crosses the flowerbeds, stops before the gate of Paradise, and with open arms receives the \"Just Man\", a man of the people, with a battered hat, a long beard, and a cudgel.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p81-s5.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"los recibe al «Justo»","title":"Redundant object pronoun","body":"The pronoun «los» doubles the later object «al Justo», a River Plate trait of anticipating the object with a clitic (here even with a number mismatch). 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third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"crosses"},{"surface":"los","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, masculine, plural","role":"determiner of canteros","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"canteros","lemma":"cantero","morphology":"noun, masculine, plural","role":"direct object of cruza","gloss":"flowerbeds"},{"surface":"se","lemma":"él","morphology":"pronoun, accusative, reflexive","role":"reflexive particle of detiene","gloss":"itself"},{"surface":"detiene","lemma":"detener","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"coordinated with cruza (asyndetic)","gloss":"stops"},{"surface":"ante","lemma":"ante","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking verja","gloss":"before"},{"surface":"la","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, feminine, singular","role":"determiner of verja","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"verja","lemma":"verja","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"oblique complement of 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barba","gloss":"cudgel"}]},{"number":212,"label":"","id":"el-suicida-p81-s6","source":"¿Comprenden ustedes pillos, profesionales, cínicos y eximios?","translation":"Do you understand, you rascals, professionals, cynics, and distinguished ones?","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p81-s6.m4a","notes":[],"words":[{"surface":"Comprenden","lemma":"comprender","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, plural","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"understand"},{"surface":"ustedes","lemma":"tú","morphology":"pronoun, acc,nom, plural","role":"subject of Comprenden","gloss":"you"},{"surface":"pillos","lemma":"pillo","morphology":"noun, masculine, plural","role":"in apposition to ustedes (vocative)","gloss":"rascals"},{"surface":"profesionales","lemma":"profesional","morphology":"noun, plural","role":"coordinated with pillos","gloss":"professionals"},{"surface":"cínicos","lemma":"cínico","morphology":"adjective used as noun, masculine, plural","role":"coordinated with pillos","gloss":"cynics"},{"surface":"y","lemma":"y","morphology":"conjunction","role":"links the coordination","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"eximios","lemma":"eximio","morphology":"adjective used as noun, masculine, plural","role":"coordinated with pillos","gloss":"distinguished ones"}]},{"number":213,"label":"","id":"el-suicida-p81-s7","source":"¿Comprenden?","translation":"Do you understand?","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p81-s7.m4a","notes":[],"words":[{"surface":"Comprenden","lemma":"comprender","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, plural","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"understand"}]},{"number":214,"label":"","id":"el-suicida-p81-s8","source":"El ángel de las alas color de rosa, lo recibe al hombre que en la tierra suda y sufre.","translation":"The angel with the rose-colored wings receives the man who on earth sweats and suffers.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p81-s8.m4a","notes":[],"words":[{"surface":"El","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, masculine, singular","role":"determiner of ángel","gloss":"The"},{"surface":"ángel","lemma":"ángel","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"subject of recibe","gloss":"angel"},{"surface":"de","lemma":"de","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking alas","gloss":"with"},{"surface":"las","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, feminine, plural","role":"determiner of alas","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"alas","lemma":"ala","morphology":"noun, feminine, plural","role":"object of de, modifies ángel","gloss":"wings"},{"surface":"color","lemma":"color","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"modifies alas","gloss":"color"},{"surface":"de","lemma":"de","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking rosa","gloss":"of"},{"surface":"rosa","lemma":"rosa","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"object of de, completes color","gloss":"rose","note":"color de rosa is an idiom for 'rose-colored, pink'."},{"surface":"lo","lemma":"él","morphology":"pronoun, accusative, masculine, singular","role":"direct object clitic (doubles al hombre)","gloss":"him","note":"lo doubles the direct object 'al hombre' — clitic doubling with personal-a objects, common in Rioplatense Spanish."},{"surface":"recibe","lemma":"recibir","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"receives"},{"surface":"al","lemma":"al","morphology":"preposition","role":"personal a + determiner marking hombre","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"hombre","lemma":"hombre","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"direct object of recibe (doubled by lo)","gloss":"man"},{"surface":"que","lemma":"que","morphology":"pronoun","role":"subject of suda","gloss":"who"},{"surface":"en","lemma":"en","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking tierra","gloss":"on"},{"surface":"la","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, feminine, singular","role":"determiner of tierra","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"tierra","lemma":"tierra","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"oblique complement of suda","gloss":"earth"},{"surface":"suda","lemma":"sudar","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"relative clause modifying hombre","gloss":"sweats"},{"surface":"y","lemma":"y","morphology":"conjunction","role":"links the coordination","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"sufre","lemma":"sufrir","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"coordinated with suda","gloss":"suffers"}]},{"number":215,"label":"","id":"el-suicida-p81-s9","source":"¿Se dan cuenta que genial es mi idea, qué maravilloso el fácil milagro?","translation":"Do you realize how brilliant my idea is, how marvelous the easy miracle?","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p81-s9.m4a","notes":[],"words":[{"surface":"Se","lemma":"él","morphology":"pronoun, dative, reflexive","role":"reflexive particle of dan","gloss":"yourselves"},{"surface":"dan","lemma":"dar","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, plural","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"give"},{"surface":"cuenta","lemma":"cuenta","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"compound with dan","gloss":"account","note":"darse cuenta (de) que = idiom 'to realize that'; se and cuenta together carry that meaning."},{"surface":"que","lemma":"qué","morphology":"adverb","role":"modifies genial (degree: how)","gloss":"how"},{"surface":"genial","lemma":"genial","morphology":"adjective, singular","role":"predicate complement of es","gloss":"brilliant"},{"surface":"es","lemma":"ser","morphology":"auxiliary verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"copula linking idea to genial","gloss":"is"},{"surface":"mi","lemma":"mi","morphology":"determiner, singular","role":"determiner of idea","gloss":"my"},{"surface":"idea","lemma":"idea","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"subject of es","gloss":"idea"},{"surface":"qué","lemma":"qué","morphology":"adverb","role":"modifies maravilloso (degree: how)","gloss":"how"},{"surface":"maravilloso","lemma":"maravilloso","morphology":"adjective, masculine, singular","role":"predicate adjective (elided es), describes milagro","gloss":"marvelous"},{"surface":"el","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, masculine, singular","role":"determiner of milagro","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"fácil","lemma":"fácil","morphology":"adjective, singular","role":"modifies milagro","gloss":"easy"},{"surface":"milagro","lemma":"milagro","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"subject of maravilloso (elided es)","gloss":"miracle"}]},{"number":216,"label":"","id":"el-suicida-p81-s10","source":"Y las multitudes adorarán de rodillas a Dios, y únicamente el cielo no existirá para nosotros, bandoleros tristes que tenemos el poder, la ciencia y la verdad inútil».","translation":"And the multitudes will worship God on their knees, and only for us will heaven not exist — sad brigands that we are, who hold power, science, and the useless truth\".","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p81-s10.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"de rodillas","title":"«de rodillas» — kneeling","body":"«de rodillas» (from «rodilla», 'knee') is an idiom meaning 'on one's knees, kneeling'. «adorarán de rodillas» = 'will worship on their knees'. Compare «de pie» ('standing') seen earlier."}],"words":[{"surface":"Y","lemma":"y","morphology":"conjunction","role":"links the coordination","gloss":"And"},{"surface":"las","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, feminine, plural","role":"determiner of multitudes","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"multitudes","lemma":"multitud","morphology":"noun, feminine, plural","role":"subject of adorarán","gloss":"multitudes"},{"surface":"adorarán","lemma":"adorar","morphology":"verb, future, indicative, third-person, plural","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"will worship"},{"surface":"de","lemma":"de","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking rodillas","gloss":"on"},{"surface":"rodillas","lemma":"rodilla","morphology":"noun, feminine, plural","role":"oblique complement of adorarán","gloss":"knees","note":"de rodillas = idiom 'on one's knees, kneeling'."},{"surface":"a","lemma":"a","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking Dios","gloss":"marks 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divinas mentiras, les regalaremos la convicción de un futuro tan extraordinario, que todas las promesas de los sacerdotes serán pálidas frente a la realidad del prodigio apócrifo.","translation":"We will bestow on men stupendous miracles, delicious beauties, divine lies; we will make them a gift of the conviction of a future so extraordinary that all the promises of the priests will be pale beside the reality of the apocryphal marvel.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p83-s2.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"les regalaremos","title":"Indirect object «les»","body":"«les» is the indirect-object pronoun 'to them', doubling «a los hombres»: «les regalaremos» = 'we will make them a gift'. Spanish routinely uses both the pronoun and the full noun phrase together."}],"words":[{"surface":"Donaremos","lemma":"donar","morphology":"verb, future, indicative, first-person, plural","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"will bestow"},{"surface":"a","lemma":"a","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking hombres","gloss":"on"},{"surface":"los","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, masculine, plural","role":"determiner of hombres","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"hombres","lemma":"hombre","morphology":"noun, masculine, plural","role":"indirect object of Donaremos","gloss":"men"},{"surface":"milagros","lemma":"milagro","morphology":"noun, masculine, plural","role":"direct object of Donaremos","gloss":"miracles"},{"surface":"estupendos","lemma":"estupendo","morphology":"adjective, masculine, plural","role":"modifies milagros","gloss":"stupendous"},{"surface":"deliciosas","lemma":"deliciosa","morphology":"adjective, feminine, plural","role":"modifies bellezas","gloss":"delicious"},{"surface":"bellezas","lemma":"belleza","morphology":"noun, feminine, plural","role":"coordinated with milagros","gloss":"beauties"},{"surface":"divinas","lemma":"divino","morphology":"adjective, feminine, plural","role":"modifies mentiras","gloss":"divine"},{"surface":"mentiras","lemma":"mentira","morphology":"noun, feminine, plural","role":"coordinated with milagros","gloss":"lies"},{"surface":"les","lemma":"él","morphology":"pronoun, dative, plural","role":"indirect object of regalaremos","gloss":"them"},{"surface":"regalaremos","lemma":"regalar","morphology":"verb, future, indicative, first-person, plural","role":"coordinated with Donaremos","gloss":"will give"},{"surface":"la","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, feminine, singular","role":"determiner of convicción","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"convicción","lemma":"convicción","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"direct object of regalaremos","gloss":"conviction"},{"surface":"de","lemma":"de","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking futuro","gloss":"of"},{"surface":"un","lemma":"uno","morphology":"determiner, masculine, singular","role":"determiner of futuro","gloss":"a"},{"surface":"futuro","lemma":"futuro","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"modifies convicción","gloss":"future"},{"surface":"tan","lemma":"tanto","morphology":"adverb","role":"modifies extraordinario","gloss":"so"},{"surface":"extraordinario","lemma":"extraordinario","morphology":"adjective, masculine, singular","role":"modifies futuro","gloss":"extraordinary"},{"surface":"que","lemma":"que","morphology":"subordinating conjunction","role":"introduces the clause of pálidas","gloss":"that"},{"surface":"todas","lemma":"todo","morphology":"determiner, feminine, plural","role":"determiner of promesas","gloss":"all"},{"surface":"las","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, feminine, plural","role":"determiner of promesas","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"promesas","lemma":"promesa","morphology":"noun, feminine, plural","role":"subject of serán","gloss":"promises"},{"surface":"de","lemma":"de","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking sacerdotes","gloss":"of"},{"surface":"los","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, masculine, plural","role":"determiner of sacerdotes","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"sacerdotes","lemma":"sacerdote","morphology":"noun, masculine, plural","role":"modifies promesas","gloss":"priests"},{"surface":"serán","lemma":"ser","morphology":"auxiliary verb, future, indicative, third-person, plural","role":"copula linking to pálidas","gloss":"will be"},{"surface":"pálidas","lemma":"pálido","morphology":"adjective, feminine, plural","role":"predicate adjective, complement of serán","gloss":"pale"},{"surface":"frente","lemma":"frente","morphology":"preposition","role":"part of the compound preposition frente a, marking realidad","gloss":"beside"},{"surface":"a","lemma":"a","morphology":"preposition","role":"part of the phrase frente","gloss":"to"},{"surface":"la","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, feminine, singular","role":"determiner of realidad","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"realidad","lemma":"realidad","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"object of frente a, complement of serán","gloss":"reality"},{"surface":"del","lemma":"del","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking prodigio","gloss":"of the"},{"surface":"prodigio","lemma":"prodigio","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"modifies realidad","gloss":"marvel"},{"surface":"apócrifo","lemma":"apócrifo","morphology":"adjective, masculine, singular","role":"modifies prodigio","gloss":"apocryphal"}]},{"number":220,"label":"","id":"el-suicida-p83-s3","source":"Y entonces, ellos serán felices... ¿Comprenden, imbéciles?","translation":"And then they will be happy... Do you understand, you imbeciles?","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p83-s3.m4a","notes":[],"words":[{"surface":"Y","lemma":"y","morphology":"conjunction","role":"links the coordination","gloss":"And"},{"surface":"entonces","lemma":"entonces","morphology":"adverb","role":"modifies serán","gloss":"then"},{"surface":"ellos","lemma":"él","morphology":"pronoun, acc,nom, masculine, plural","role":"subject of serán","gloss":"they"},{"surface":"serán","lemma":"ser","morphology":"auxiliary verb, future, indicative, third-person, plural","role":"copula linking to felices","gloss":"will be"},{"surface":"felices","lemma":"feliz","morphology":"adjective, plural","role":"predicate adjective, complement of serán","gloss":"happy"},{"surface":"Comprenden","lemma":"comprender","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, plural","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"Do you understand"},{"surface":"imbéciles","lemma":"imbécil","morphology":"noun, masculine, plural","role":"vocative, addressing the listeners","gloss":"imbeciles"}]},{"number":221,"label":"84","id":"el-suicida-p84-s1","source":"De un encontronazo un faquín lo arrojó contra un muro.","translation":"With a sudden collision a porter flung him against a wall.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p84-s1.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"encontronazo","title":"«encontronazo» — a collision","body":"«encontronazo» (with the forceful -azo ending) is a 'violent bump, collision, crash' between people. The jolt snaps Erdosain out of his daydream. «faquín» is an old word for a 'porter / load-carrier'."}],"words":[{"surface":"De","lemma":"de","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking encontronazo","gloss":"With"},{"surface":"un","lemma":"uno","morphology":"determiner, masculine, singular","role":"determiner of encontronazo","gloss":"a"},{"surface":"encontronazo","lemma":"encontronazo","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"oblique complement of arrojó","gloss":"collision"},{"surface":"un","lemma":"uno","morphology":"determiner, masculine, singular","role":"determiner of faquín","gloss":"a"},{"surface":"faquín","lemma":"faquín","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"subject of arrojó","gloss":"porter"},{"surface":"lo","lemma":"él","morphology":"pronoun, accusative, masculine, singular","role":"direct object of arrojó","gloss":"him"},{"surface":"arrojó","lemma":"arrojar","morphology":"verb, past, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"flung"},{"surface":"contra","lemma":"contra","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking muro","gloss":"against"},{"surface":"un","lemma":"uno","morphology":"determiner, masculine, singular","role":"determiner of muro","gloss":"a"},{"surface":"muro","lemma":"muro","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"oblique complement of arrojó","gloss":"wall"}]},{"number":222,"label":"","id":"el-suicida-p84-s2","source":"Erdosain se detuvo espantado, apretó el dinero convulsivamente en su bolsillo, y excitado, ferozmente alegre como un tigrecito suelto en un bosque de ladrillo, escupió a la fachada de una casa de modas, diciendo:","translation":"Erdosain stopped, terrified, clutched the money convulsively in his pocket, and excited, ferociously gleeful like a little tiger loose in a forest of brick, he spat at the front of a fashion house, saying:","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p84-s2.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"tigrecito","title":"Diminutive: «tigrecito»","body":"«tigrecito» is the diminutive of «tigre» ('tiger'). The -cito ending here is not just 'small' but affectionate-ironic — a 'little tiger', wild yet faintly absurd, capturing Erdosain's feverish, almost childish exhilaration."}],"words":[{"surface":"Erdosain","lemma":"Erdosain","morphology":"proper noun","role":"subject of detuvo","gloss":"Erdosain"},{"surface":"se","lemma":"él","morphology":"pronoun, accusative, reflexive","role":"reflexive particle of detuvo","gloss":"himself"},{"surface":"detuvo","lemma":"detener","morphology":"verb, past, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"stopped"},{"surface":"espantado","lemma":"espantado","morphology":"adjective, masculine, singular","role":"secondary predicate, describes Erdosain","gloss":"terrified"},{"surface":"apretó","lemma":"apretar","morphology":"verb, past, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"coordinated with detuvo","gloss":"clutched"},{"surface":"el","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, masculine, singular","role":"determiner of dinero","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"dinero","lemma":"dinero","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"direct object of apretó","gloss":"money"},{"surface":"convulsivamente","lemma":"convulsivamente","morphology":"adverb","role":"modifies apretó","gloss":"convulsively"},{"surface":"en","lemma":"en","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking bolsillo","gloss":"in"},{"surface":"su","lemma":"su","morphology":"determiner, singular","role":"determiner of bolsillo","gloss":"his"},{"surface":"bolsillo","lemma":"bolsillo","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"oblique complement of apretó","gloss":"pocket"},{"surface":"y","lemma":"y","morphology":"conjunction","role":"links the coordination","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"excitado","lemma":"excitado","morphology":"adjective, masculine, singular","role":"secondary predicate, describes Erdosain (coordinated with espantado)","gloss":"excited"},{"surface":"ferozmente","lemma":"ferozmente","morphology":"adverb","role":"modifies alegre","gloss":"ferociously"},{"surface":"alegre","lemma":"alegre","morphology":"adjective, singular","role":"secondary predicate, describes Erdosain (coordinated with excitado)","gloss":"gleeful"},{"surface":"como","lemma":"como","morphology":"preposition","role":"comparative preposition, introduces tigrecito","gloss":"like"},{"surface":"un","lemma":"uno","morphology":"determiner, masculine, singular","role":"determiner of tigrecito","gloss":"a"},{"surface":"tigrecito","lemma":"tigrecito","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"object of como, comparison target of alegre","gloss":"little tiger"},{"surface":"suelto","lemma":"suelto","morphology":"adjective, masculine, singular","role":"modifies tigrecito","gloss":"loose"},{"surface":"en","lemma":"en","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking bosque","gloss":"in"},{"surface":"un","lemma":"uno","morphology":"determiner, masculine, singular","role":"determiner of bosque","gloss":"a"},{"surface":"bosque","lemma":"bosque","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"oblique complement of suelto","gloss":"forest"},{"surface":"de","lemma":"de","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking ladrillo","gloss":"of"},{"surface":"ladrillo","lemma":"ladrillo","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"modifies bosque","gloss":"brick"},{"surface":"escupió","lemma":"escupir","morphology":"verb, past, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"coordinated with detuvo","gloss":"spat"},{"surface":"a","lemma":"a","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking fachada","gloss":"at"},{"surface":"la","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, feminine, singular","role":"determiner of fachada","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"fachada","lemma":"fachada","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"oblique complement of escupió","gloss":"front"},{"surface":"de","lemma":"de","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking casa","gloss":"of"},{"surface":"una","lemma":"uno","morphology":"determiner, feminine, singular","role":"determiner of casa","gloss":"a"},{"surface":"casa","lemma":"casa","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"modifies fachada","gloss":"house"},{"surface":"de","lemma":"de","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking modas","gloss":"of"},{"surface":"modas","lemma":"moda","morphology":"noun, feminine, plural","role":"modifies casa","gloss":"fashion"},{"surface":"diciendo","lemma":"decir","morphology":"verb, gerund","role":"adverbial clause on escupió","gloss":"saying"}]},{"number":223,"label":"85","id":"el-suicida-p85-s1","source":"–Serás nuestra, ciudad.","translation":"–You will be ours, city.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p85-s1.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"Serás nuestra","title":"Future + apostrophe to the city","body":"«serás» is the «tú» future of «ser»: 'you will be'. Erdosain addresses the city directly («ciudad») with the intimate «tú» form, an apostrophe that closes the chapter on his note of conquering megalomania."}],"words":[{"surface":"Serás","lemma":"ser","morphology":"auxiliary verb, future, indicative, second-person, singular","role":"copula linking to nuestra","gloss":"will be"},{"surface":"nuestra","lemma":"nuestro","morphology":"pronoun, possessive, feminine, singular","role":"predicate complement of Serás","gloss":"ours"},{"surface":"ciudad","lemma":"ciudad","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"vocative, addressing the city","gloss":"city"}]},{"number":224,"label":"86","id":"el-suicida-p86-s1","source":"Tras él caminaba el Mayor.","translation":"Behind him walked the Major.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-suicida-p86-s1.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"Tras él caminaba","title":"«tras» — behind / after","body":"«tras» means 'behind' or 'after'. The chapter's final line — «Tras él caminaba el Mayor» ('Behind him walked the Major') — quietly reminds us Erdosain is being shadowed, undercutting his fantasy of total power with the reality of surveillance."}],"words":[{"surface":"Tras","lemma":"tras","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking él","gloss":"Behind"},{"surface":"él","lemma":"él","morphology":"pronoun, acc,nom, masculine, singular","role":"oblique complement of caminaba","gloss":"him"},{"surface":"caminaba","lemma":"caminar","morphology":"verb, imperfect, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"walked"},{"surface":"el","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, masculine, singular","role":"determiner of Mayor","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"Mayor","lemma":"Mayor","morphology":"proper noun","role":"subject of caminaba","gloss":"Major"}]}]}