{"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-terror-en-la-calle","title":{"source":"El terror en la calle","translated":"Terror in the Street"},"section":"Part One","summary":null,"url":"https://1732studios.com/books/arlt/el-terror-en-la-calle","lines":37},"previous":"https://1732studios.com/books/arlt/estados-de-conciencia","next":"https://1732studios.com/books/arlt/un-hombre-extrano","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-terror-en-la-calle-p1-s1","source":"Sin duda alguna su vida era extraña, porque a veces una esperanza apresurada lo lanzaba a la calle.","translation":"Without any doubt his life was strange, because at times a hasty hope would fling him out into the street.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-terror-en-la-calle-p1-s1.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"era / lanzaba","title":"Imperfect for habit and backdrop","body":"«era» and «lanzaba» are imperfect forms of «ser» and «lanzar». The imperfect paints a continuous state ('his life was strange') and a repeated, habitual action ('would fling him', 'used to fling him') rather than a single completed event."}],"words":[{"surface":"Sin","lemma":"sin","morphology":"preposition","role":"modifies era","gloss":"Without"},{"surface":"duda","lemma":"duda","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"part of the phrase Sin","gloss":"doubt"},{"surface":"alguna","lemma":"alguno","morphology":"determiner, feminine, singular","role":"modifies duda","gloss":"any"},{"surface":"su","lemma":"su","morphology":"determiner, singular","role":"determiner of vida","gloss":"his"},{"surface":"vida","lemma":"vida","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"subject of extraña","gloss":"life"},{"surface":"era","lemma":"ser","morphology":"auxiliary verb, imperfect, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"copula linking to extraña","gloss":"was"},{"surface":"extraña","lemma":"extraño","morphology":"adjective, feminine, singular","role":"predicate complement of era","gloss":"strange"},{"surface":"porque","lemma":"porque","morphology":"subordinating conjunction","role":"introduces the clause of lanzaba","gloss":"because"},{"surface":"a","lemma":"a","morphology":"preposition","role":"modifies lanzaba","gloss":"at"},{"surface":"veces","lemma":"vez","morphology":"noun, feminine, plural","role":"part of the phrase a","gloss":"times"},{"surface":"una","lemma":"uno","morphology":"determiner, feminine, singular","role":"determiner of esperanza","gloss":"a"},{"surface":"esperanza","lemma":"esperanza","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"subject of lanzaba","gloss":"hope"},{"surface":"apresurada","lemma":"apresurado","morphology":"adjective, feminine, singular","role":"modifies esperanza","gloss":"hasty"},{"surface":"lo","lemma":"él","morphology":"pronoun, accusative, masculine, singular","role":"direct object of lanzaba","gloss":"him"},{"surface":"lanzaba","lemma":"lanzar","morphology":"verb, imperfect, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"adverbial clause on era","gloss":"would fling"},{"surface":"a","lemma":"a","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking calle","gloss":"into"},{"surface":"la","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, feminine, singular","role":"determiner of calle","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"calle","lemma":"calle","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"oblique complement of lanzaba","gloss":"street"}]},{"number":2,"label":"2","id":"el-terror-en-la-calle-p2-s1","source":"Entonces tomaba un ómnibus y bajaba en Palermo o en Belgrano.","translation":"Then he would take a bus and get off in Palermo or in Belgrano.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-terror-en-la-calle-p2-s1.m4a","notes":[],"words":[{"surface":"Entonces","lemma":"entonces","morphology":"adverb","role":"modifies tomaba","gloss":"Then"},{"surface":"tomaba","lemma":"tomar","morphology":"verb, imperfect, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"would take"},{"surface":"un","lemma":"uno","morphology":"determiner, masculine, singular","role":"determiner of ómnibus","gloss":"a"},{"surface":"ómnibus","lemma":"ómnibus","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"direct object of tomaba","gloss":"bus"},{"surface":"y","lemma":"y","morphology":"conjunction","role":"links the coordination","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"bajaba","lemma":"bajar","morphology":"verb, imperfect, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"coordinated with tomaba","gloss":"would get off"},{"surface":"en","lemma":"en","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking Palermo","gloss":"in"},{"surface":"Palermo","lemma":"Palermo","morphology":"proper noun","role":"oblique complement of bajaba","gloss":"Palermo"},{"surface":"o","lemma":"o","morphology":"conjunction","role":"links the coordination","gloss":"or"},{"surface":"en","lemma":"en","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking Belgrano","gloss":"in"},{"surface":"Belgrano","lemma":"Belgrano","morphology":"proper noun","role":"coordinated with Palermo","gloss":"Belgrano"}]},{"number":3,"label":"","id":"el-terror-en-la-calle-p2-s2","source":"Recorría pensativamente las silenciosas avenidas, diciéndose: –Me verá una doncella, una niña alta, pálida y concentrada, que por capricho maneje su Rolls–Royce.","translation":"He would walk thoughtfully along the silent avenues, telling himself: –A maiden will see me, a tall girl, pale and intent, who out of whim drives her own Rolls–Royce.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-terror-en-la-calle-p2-s2.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"que ... maneje","title":"Subjunctive for the hypothetical","body":"«maneje» is the present subjunctive of «manejar» (to drive). After a relative clause describing someone imagined rather than real — a girl «que por capricho maneje su Rolls-Royce» — Spanish uses the subjunctive: 'who would drive', 'such as might drive'. The mood marks her as a figment, not a known person."}],"words":[{"surface":"Recorría","lemma":"recorrer","morphology":"verb, imperfect, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"would walk"},{"surface":"pensativamente","lemma":"pensativamente","morphology":"adverb","role":"modifies Recorría","gloss":"thoughtfully"},{"surface":"las","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, feminine, plural","role":"determiner of avenidas","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"silenciosas","lemma":"silencioso","morphology":"adjective, feminine, plural","role":"modifies avenidas","gloss":"silent"},{"surface":"avenidas","lemma":"avenida","morphology":"noun, feminine, plural","role":"direct object of Recorría","gloss":"avenues"},{"surface":"diciéndose","lemma":"decir él","morphology":"verb, gerund","role":"adverbial clause on Recorría","gloss":"telling himself"},{"surface":"Me","lemma":"yo","morphology":"pronoun, accusative, singular","role":"direct object of verá","gloss":"me"},{"surface":"verá","lemma":"ver","morphology":"verb, future, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the quoted clause (content of diciéndose)","gloss":"will see"},{"surface":"una","lemma":"uno","morphology":"determiner, feminine, singular","role":"determiner of doncella","gloss":"a"},{"surface":"doncella","lemma":"doncella","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"subject of verá","gloss":"maiden"},{"surface":"una","lemma":"uno","morphology":"determiner, feminine, singular","role":"determiner of niña","gloss":"a"},{"surface":"niña","lemma":"niña","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"in apposition to doncella","gloss":"girl"},{"surface":"alta","lemma":"alto","morphology":"adjective, feminine, singular","role":"modifies niña","gloss":"tall"},{"surface":"pálida","lemma":"pálido","morphology":"adjective, feminine, singular","role":"coordinated with alta","gloss":"pale"},{"surface":"y","lemma":"y","morphology":"conjunction","role":"links the coordination","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"concentrada","lemma":"concentrado","morphology":"adjective, feminine, singular","role":"coordinated with alta","gloss":"intent"},{"surface":"que","lemma":"que","morphology":"pronoun","role":"subject of maneje","gloss":"who"},{"surface":"por","lemma":"por","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking capricho","gloss":"out of"},{"surface":"capricho","lemma":"capricho","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"oblique complement of maneje","gloss":"whim"},{"surface":"maneje","lemma":"manejar","morphology":"verb, present, subjunctive, third-person, singular","role":"clause modifying niña","gloss":"drives"},{"surface":"su","lemma":"su","morphology":"determiner, singular","role":"determiner of Rolls–Royce","gloss":"her"},{"surface":"Rolls–Royce","lemma":"rolls–royce","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"direct object of maneje","gloss":"Rolls-Royce"}]},{"number":4,"label":"","id":"el-terror-en-la-calle-p2-s3","source":"Paseará tristemente.","translation":"She will be strolling sadly.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-terror-en-la-calle-p2-s3.m4a","notes":[],"words":[{"surface":"Paseará","lemma":"pasear","morphology":"verb, future, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"will be strolling"},{"surface":"tristemente","lemma":"tristemente","morphology":"adverb","role":"modifies Paseará","gloss":"sadly"}]},{"number":5,"label":"","id":"el-terror-en-la-calle-p2-s4","source":"De pronto me mira y comprende que yo seré el único amor de toda la vida, y esa mirada que era un ultraje para todos los desdichados, se posará en mí, cubiertos los ojos de lágrimas.","translation":"All at once she looks at me and understands that I will be the one love of her whole life, and that gaze, which was an insult to every wretched soul, will come to rest on me, her eyes brimming with tears.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-terror-en-la-calle-p2-s4.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"cubiertos los ojos de lágrimas","title":"Absolute participle clause","body":"«cubiertos los ojos de lágrimas» is an absolute construction: a past participle («cubiertos», covered) agreeing with its own noun («los ojos»), with no conjugated verb. It works like a tacked-on 'her eyes covered / brimming with tears', compressing a full clause into a vivid phrase."}],"words":[{"surface":"De","lemma":"de","morphology":"preposition","role":"heads the phrase de pronto, modifies mira","gloss":"suddenly","note":"«De pronto» is a fixed phrase meaning 'suddenly, all at once.'"},{"surface":"pronto","lemma":"pronto","morphology":"adverb","role":"part of the phrase De","gloss":"suddenly"},{"surface":"me","lemma":"yo","morphology":"pronoun, accusative, singular","role":"direct object of mira","gloss":"me"},{"surface":"mira","lemma":"mira","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"looks at"},{"surface":"y","lemma":"y","morphology":"conjunction","role":"links the coordination","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"comprende","lemma":"comprender","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"coordinated with 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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":"modifies amor","gloss":"life"},{"surface":"y","lemma":"y","morphology":"conjunction","role":"links the coordination","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"esa","lemma":"ese","morphology":"determiner, feminine, singular","role":"determiner of mirada","gloss":"that"},{"surface":"mirada","lemma":"mirada","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"subject of posará","gloss":"gaze"},{"surface":"que","lemma":"que","morphology":"pronoun","role":"subject of era","gloss":"which"},{"surface":"era","lemma":"ser","morphology":"auxiliary verb, imperfect, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"copula linking to ultraje","gloss":"was"},{"surface":"un","lemma":"uno","morphology":"determiner, masculine, singular","role":"determiner of ultraje","gloss":"an"},{"surface":"ultraje","lemma":"ultraje","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"predicate nominal of era","gloss":"insult"},{"surface":"para","lemma":"para","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking desdichados","gloss":"to"},{"surface":"todos","lemma":"todo","morphology":"determiner, masculine, plural","role":"modifies desdichados","gloss":"every"},{"surface":"los","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, masculine, plural","role":"determiner of desdichados","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"desdichados","lemma":"desdichado","morphology":"adjective, masculine, plural","role":"modifies ultraje","gloss":"wretched"},{"surface":"se","lemma":"él","morphology":"pronoun, accusative, reflexive","role":"reflexive particle of posará","gloss":"itself"},{"surface":"posará","lemma":"posar","morphology":"verb, future, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"coordinated with mira","gloss":"will rest"},{"surface":"en","lemma":"en","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking mí","gloss":"on"},{"surface":"mí","lemma":"yo","morphology":"pronoun, accusative, singular","role":"oblique complement of posará","gloss":"me"},{"surface":"cubiertos","lemma":"cubrir","morphology":"verb, past, participle, masculine, plural","role":"adverbial clause on posará","gloss":"covered"},{"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 cubiertos","gloss":"eyes"},{"surface":"de","lemma":"de","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking lágrimas","gloss":"with"},{"surface":"lágrimas","lemma":"lágrima","morphology":"noun, feminine, plural","role":"modifies ojos","gloss":"tears"}]},{"number":6,"label":"3","id":"el-terror-en-la-calle-p3-s1","source":"El ensueño se desenroscaba sobre esta necedad, mientras lentamente se deslizaba a la sombra de las altas fachadas y de los verdes plátanos, que en los blancos mosaicos descomponían su sombra en triángulos.","translation":"The reverie uncoiled over this foolishness while he slid slowly along in the shade of the tall facades and the green plane trees, which on the white floor tiles broke their shadow into triangles.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-terror-en-la-calle-p3-s1.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"se desenroscaba","title":"«desenroscarse» — to uncoil","body":"«desenroscarse» means to unscrew, unwind, or uncoil — the reverse of «enroscarse» (to coil up, like a snake or a screw). Arlt has the daydream literally 'uncoil itself' over the absurd idea, a serpentine image of a fantasy unspooling."}],"words":[{"surface":"El","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, masculine, singular","role":"determiner of ensueño","gloss":"The"},{"surface":"ensueño","lemma":"ensueño","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"subject of desenroscaba","gloss":"reverie"},{"surface":"se","lemma":"él","morphology":"pronoun, accusative, reflexive","role":"reflexive particle of desenroscaba","gloss":"itself"},{"surface":"desenroscaba","lemma":"desenroscar","morphology":"verb, imperfect, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"uncoiled"},{"surface":"sobre","lemma":"sobre","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking necedad","gloss":"over"},{"surface":"esta","lemma":"este","morphology":"determiner, feminine, singular","role":"determiner of necedad","gloss":"this"},{"surface":"necedad","lemma":"necedad","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"oblique complement of desenroscaba","gloss":"foolishness"},{"surface":"mientras","lemma":"mientras","morphology":"subordinating conjunction","role":"introduces the clause of deslizaba","gloss":"while"},{"surface":"lentamente","lemma":"lentamente","morphology":"adverb","role":"modifies deslizaba","gloss":"slowly"},{"surface":"se","lemma":"él","morphology":"pronoun, accusative, reflexive","role":"reflexive particle of deslizaba","gloss":"himself"},{"surface":"deslizaba","lemma":"deslizar","morphology":"verb, imperfect, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"adverbial clause on desenroscaba","gloss":"slid"},{"surface":"a","lemma":"a","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking sombra","gloss":"in"},{"surface":"la","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, feminine, singular","role":"determiner of sombra","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"sombra","lemma":"sombra","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"oblique complement of deslizaba","gloss":"shade"},{"surface":"de","lemma":"de","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking fachadas","gloss":"of"},{"surface":"las","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, feminine, plural","role":"determiner of fachadas","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"altas","lemma":"alto","morphology":"adjective, feminine, plural","role":"modifies fachadas","gloss":"tall"},{"surface":"fachadas","lemma":"fachada","morphology":"noun, feminine, plural","role":"modifies sombra","gloss":"facades"},{"surface":"y","lemma":"y","morphology":"conjunction","role":"links the coordination","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"de","lemma":"de","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking plátanos","gloss":"of"},{"surface":"los","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, masculine, plural","role":"determiner of plátanos","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"verdes","lemma":"verde","morphology":"adjective, plural","role":"modifies plátanos","gloss":"green"},{"surface":"plátanos","lemma":"plátano","morphology":"noun, masculine, plural","role":"modifies sombra","gloss":"plane trees"},{"surface":"que","lemma":"que","morphology":"pronoun","role":"subject of descomponían","gloss":"which"},{"surface":"en","lemma":"en","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking mosaicos","gloss":"on"},{"surface":"los","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, masculine, plural","role":"determiner of mosaicos","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"blancos","lemma":"blanco","morphology":"adjective, masculine, plural","role":"modifies mosaicos","gloss":"white"},{"surface":"mosaicos","lemma":"mosaico","morphology":"noun, masculine, plural","role":"oblique complement of descomponían","gloss":"floor tiles"},{"surface":"descomponían","lemma":"descomponer","morphology":"verb, imperfect, indicative, third-person, plural","role":"clause modifying plátanos","gloss":"broke"},{"surface":"su","lemma":"su","morphology":"determiner, singular","role":"determiner of sombra","gloss":"their"},{"surface":"sombra","lemma":"sombra","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"direct object of descomponían","gloss":"shadow"},{"surface":"en","lemma":"en","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking triángulos","gloss":"into"},{"surface":"triángulos","lemma":"triángulo","morphology":"noun, masculine, plural","role":"oblique complement of descomponían","gloss":"triangles"}]},{"number":7,"label":"4","id":"el-terror-en-la-calle-p4-s1","source":"–Será millonada, pero yo le diré: «Señorita, no puedo tocarla.","translation":"–She'll be worth millions, but I will tell her: \"Miss, I cannot touch you.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-terror-en-la-calle-p4-s1.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"le diré","title":"Indirect-object «le»","body":"«le» is the indirect-object pronoun ('to her / to him'): «le diré» = 'I will say to her'. Spanish routinely attaches this pronoun even when the full person is also named, doubling the indirect object."}],"words":[{"surface":"Será","lemma":"ser","morphology":"auxiliary verb, future, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"copula linking to millonada","gloss":"will be"},{"surface":"millonada","lemma":"millonada","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"predicate nominal of Será","gloss":"a fortune","note":"«Millonada» is an Argentine colloquialism for a huge sum of money; the line means 'she'll be worth millions.'"},{"surface":"pero","lemma":"pero","morphology":"conjunction","role":"links the coordination","gloss":"but"},{"surface":"yo","lemma":"yo","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, singular","role":"subject of diré","gloss":"I"},{"surface":"le","lemma":"él","morphology":"pronoun, dative, singular","role":"indirect object of diré","gloss":"her"},{"surface":"diré","lemma":"decir","morphology":"verb, future, indicative, first-person, singular","role":"coordinated with Será","gloss":"will tell"},{"surface":"Señorita","lemma":"señorita","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"vocative in the quotation introduced by diré","gloss":"Miss"},{"surface":"no","lemma":"no","morphology":"adverb","role":"modifies tocarla","gloss":"not"},{"surface":"puedo","lemma":"poder","morphology":"auxiliary verb, present, indicative, first-person, singular","role":"auxiliary of tocarla","gloss":"can"},{"surface":"tocarla","lemma":"tocar él","morphology":"verb, infinitive","role":"infinitive complement of puedo","gloss":"touch you"}]},{"number":8,"label":"","id":"el-terror-en-la-calle-p4-s2","source":"Aunque usted quisiera entregárseme, no la tomaría».","translation":"Even if you wished to give yourself to me, I would not take you.\"","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-terror-en-la-calle-p4-s2.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"Aunque usted quisiera","title":"Past subjunctive + conditional","body":"«quisiera» is the past (imperfect) subjunctive of «querer», and «tomaría» the conditional of «tomar». The pair builds an unreal hypothesis: «aunque quisiera... no la tomaría» = 'even if you were to wish..., I would not take you' — supposing something contrary to fact."}],"words":[{"surface":"Aunque","lemma":"aunque","morphology":"subordinating conjunction","role":"introduces the clause of quisiera","gloss":"even if"},{"surface":"usted","lemma":"usted","morphology":"pronoun, acc,nom, singular","role":"subject of quisiera","gloss":"you"},{"surface":"quisiera","lemma":"querer","morphology":"verb, imperfect, subjunctive, third-person, singular","role":"adverbial clause on tomaría","gloss":"wished"},{"surface":"entregárseme","lemma":"entregar","morphology":"verb, infinitive","role":"complement of quisiera","gloss":"give yourself to me"},{"surface":"no","lemma":"no","morphology":"adverb","role":"modifies tomaría","gloss":"not"},{"surface":"la","lemma":"él","morphology":"pronoun, accusative, feminine, singular","role":"direct object of tomaría","gloss":"you"},{"surface":"tomaría","lemma":"tomar","morphology":"verb, conditional, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"would take"}]},{"number":9,"label":"","id":"el-terror-en-la-calle-p4-s3","source":"Ella me mirará sorprendida; entonces yo le diré: «Y todo es inútil, ¿sabe?, es inútil, porque estoy casado».","translation":"She will look at me, surprised; then I will tell her: \"And it's all useless, you see, it's useless, because I am married.\"","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-terror-en-la-calle-p4-s3.m4a","notes":[],"words":[{"surface":"Ella","lemma":"él","morphology":"pronoun, acc,nom, feminine, singular","role":"subject of mirará","gloss":"she"},{"surface":"me","lemma":"yo","morphology":"pronoun, accusative, singular","role":"direct object of mirará","gloss":"me"},{"surface":"mirará","lemma":"mirar","morphology":"verb, future, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"will look 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inútil","gloss":"married"}]},{"number":10,"label":"","id":"el-terror-en-la-calle-p4-s4","source":"Pero ella le ofrecerá una fortuna a Elsa para que se divorcie de mí, y luego nos casaremos, y en su yate nos iremos al Brasil.","translation":"But she will offer Elsa a fortune so that she divorces me, and then we will marry, and in her yacht we will go off to Brazil.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-terror-en-la-calle-p4-s4.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"para que se divorcie","title":"«para que» + subjunctive","body":"«para que» (so that, in order that) always triggers the subjunctive: «para que se divorcie» = 'so that she may divorce'. «divorciarse» is also pronominal here — the reflexive «se» marks divorcing as something one does to/for oneself."}],"words":[{"surface":"Pero","lemma":"pero","morphology":"conjunction","role":"links the coordination","gloss":"but"},{"surface":"ella","lemma":"él","morphology":"pronoun, acc,nom, feminine, singular","role":"subject of ofrecerá","gloss":"she"},{"surface":"le","lemma":"él","morphology":"pronoun, dative, singular","role":"indirect object of ofrecerá","gloss":"her"},{"surface":"ofrecerá","lemma":"ofrecer","morphology":"verb, future, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"will offer"},{"surface":"una","lemma":"uno","morphology":"determiner, feminine, singular","role":"determiner of fortuna","gloss":"a"},{"surface":"fortuna","lemma":"fortuna","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"direct object of ofrecerá","gloss":"fortune"},{"surface":"a","lemma":"a","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking Elsa","gloss":"to"},{"surface":"Elsa","lemma":"Elsa","morphology":"proper noun","role":"indirect object of ofrecerá","gloss":"Elsa"},{"surface":"para","lemma":"para","morphology":"preposition","role":"part of the phrase que","gloss":"so"},{"surface":"que","lemma":"que","morphology":"subordinating conjunction","role":"introduces the clause of 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plural","role":"coordinated with ofrecerá","gloss":"will marry"},{"surface":"y","lemma":"y","morphology":"conjunction","role":"links the coordination","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"en","lemma":"en","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking yate","gloss":"in"},{"surface":"su","lemma":"su","morphology":"determiner, singular","role":"determiner of yate","gloss":"her"},{"surface":"yate","lemma":"yate","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"oblique complement of iremos","gloss":"yacht"},{"surface":"nos","lemma":"yo","morphology":"pronoun, accusative, plural, reflexive","role":"reflexive particle of iremos","gloss":"ourselves"},{"surface":"iremos","lemma":"ir","morphology":"verb, future, indicative, first-person, plural","role":"coordinated with ofrecerá","gloss":"will go off"},{"surface":"al","lemma":"al","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking Brasil","gloss":"to"},{"surface":"Brasil","lemma":"Brasil","morphology":"proper noun","role":"oblique complement of iremos","gloss":"Brazil"}]},{"number":11,"label":"5","id":"el-terror-en-la-calle-p5-s1","source":"Y la simplicidad de este sueno se enriquecía con el nombre de Brasil que, áspero y caliente, proyectaba ante él una costa sonrosada y blanca, cortando con aristas y perpendiculares al mar tiernamente azul.","translation":"And the simplicity of this dream was enriched by the name of Brazil, which, harsh and hot, cast before him a pink and white coast, cutting with edges and perpendiculars into the tenderly blue sea.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-terror-en-la-calle-p5-s1.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"sueno","title":"A source typo for «sueño»","body":"The word here should be «sueño» (dream); the public-domain source we transcribe from drops the tilde and prints «sueno». We reproduce the source exactly, but read it as «sueño» — 'dream'."}],"words":[{"surface":"Y","lemma":"y","morphology":"conjunction","role":"links the coordination","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"la","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, feminine, singular","role":"determiner of simplicidad","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"simplicidad","lemma":"simplicidad","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"subject of enriquecía","gloss":"simplicity"},{"surface":"de","lemma":"de","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking sueno","gloss":"of"},{"surface":"este","lemma":"este","morphology":"determiner, masculine, singular","role":"determiner of sueno","gloss":"this"},{"surface":"sueno","lemma":"sueño","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"modifies simplicidad","gloss":"dream","note":"Printed without the tilde in the source («sueno»); this is «sueño» ('dream')."},{"surface":"se","lemma":"él","morphology":"pronoun, accusative, reflexive","role":"reflexive particle of enriquecía","gloss":"itself"},{"surface":"enriquecía","lemma":"enriquecer","morphology":"verb, imperfect, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"was enriched"},{"surface":"con","lemma":"con","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking nombre","gloss":"by"},{"surface":"el","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, masculine, singular","role":"determiner of nombre","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"nombre","lemma":"nombre","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"oblique complement of enriquecía","gloss":"name"},{"surface":"de","lemma":"de","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking Brasil","gloss":"of"},{"surface":"Brasil","lemma":"Brasil","morphology":"proper noun","role":"modifies nombre","gloss":"Brazil"},{"surface":"que","lemma":"que","morphology":"pronoun","role":"subject of proyectaba","gloss":"which"},{"surface":"áspero","lemma":"áspero","morphology":"adjective, masculine, singular","role":"predicate adjective 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«haber» + past participle): 'had lost'. It marks an action completed before another past moment — here, before the 'now' of the daydream in which she has already become softer."}],"words":[{"surface":"Ahora","lemma":"ahora","morphology":"adverb","role":"modifies perdido","gloss":"now"},{"surface":"la","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, feminine, singular","role":"determiner of doncella","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"doncella","lemma":"doncella","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"subject of perdido","gloss":"maiden"},{"surface":"había","lemma":"haber","morphology":"auxiliary verb, imperfect, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"auxiliary of perdido","gloss":"had"},{"surface":"perdido","lemma":"perder","morphology":"verb, past, participle, masculine, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"lost"},{"surface":"su","lemma":"su","morphology":"determiner, singular","role":"determiner of empaque","gloss":"her"},{"surface":"empaque","lemma":"empaque","morphology":"noun, masculine, 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colegiala","gloss":"a"},{"surface":"colegiala","lemma":"colegiala","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"modifies el","gloss":"schoolgirl"},{"surface":"una","lemma":"uno","morphology":"determiner, feminine, singular","role":"determiner of criatura","gloss":"a"},{"surface":"criatura","lemma":"criatura","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"predicate nominal of era","gloss":"creature"},{"surface":"sonriente","lemma":"sonriente","morphology":"adjective, singular","role":"modifies criatura","gloss":"smiling"},{"surface":"tímida","lemma":"tímido","morphology":"adjective, feminine, singular","role":"modifies criatura","gloss":"shy"},{"surface":"y","lemma":"y","morphology":"conjunction","role":"links the coordination","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"atrevida","lemma":"atrevida","morphology":"adjective, feminine, singular","role":"coordinated with tímida","gloss":"bold"},{"surface":"a","lemma":"a","morphology":"preposition","role":"heads the phrase a la vez, modifies 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thinking"}]},{"number":14,"label":"7","id":"el-terror-en-la-calle-p7-s1","source":"–No tendremos nunca contacto sexual.","translation":"–We will never have any sexual contact.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-terror-en-la-calle-p7-s1.m4a","notes":[],"words":[{"surface":"No","lemma":"no","morphology":"adverb","role":"modifies tendremos","gloss":"not"},{"surface":"tendremos","lemma":"tener","morphology":"verb, future, indicative, first-person, plural","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"will have"},{"surface":"nunca","lemma":"nunca","morphology":"adverb","role":"modifies tendremos","gloss":"never"},{"surface":"contacto","lemma":"contacto","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"direct object of tendremos","gloss":"contact"},{"surface":"sexual","lemma":"sexual","morphology":"adjective, singular","role":"modifies contacto","gloss":"sexual"}]},{"number":15,"label":"","id":"el-terror-en-la-calle-p7-s2","source":"Para hacer más duradero nuestro amor, refrenaremos el deseo, y tampoco la besaré en la boca, sino en la mano.","translation":"To make our love last longer, we will rein in desire, and I will not even kiss her on the mouth, but on the hand.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-terror-en-la-calle-p7-s2.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"no ... sino","title":"«no ... sino» — not X but Y","body":"«sino» (not to be confused with «si no», 'if not') corrects a preceding negative: «no... en la boca, sino en la mano» = 'not on the mouth, but on the hand'. Use «sino» after a negation to introduce the right alternative."}],"words":[{"surface":"Para","lemma":"para","morphology":"preposition","role":"introduces the clause of hacer","gloss":"to"},{"surface":"hacer","lemma":"hacer","morphology":"verb, infinitive","role":"adverbial clause on refrenaremos","gloss":"make"},{"surface":"más","lemma":"más","morphology":"adverb","role":"modifies duradero","gloss":"more"},{"surface":"duradero","lemma":"duradero","morphology":"adjective, masculine, singular","role":"predicate adjective complement of hacer","gloss":"lasting"},{"surface":"nuestro","lemma":"nuestro","morphology":"determiner, masculine, singular","role":"determiner of amor","gloss":"our"},{"surface":"amor","lemma":"amor","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"direct object of hacer","gloss":"love"},{"surface":"refrenaremos","lemma":"refrenar","morphology":"verb, future, indicative, first-person, plural","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"will rein 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course than to bring about such an absurdity.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-terror-en-la-calle-p8-s1.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"si ... aconteciera ... purificaría","title":"Contrary-to-fact conditional","body":"«aconteciera» is the past subjunctive of «acontecer» (to happen), paired with the conditional «purificaría». «si» + past subjunctive + conditional builds an unreal 'if' clause: 'if it were to happen..., it would purify' — explicitly something that cannot occur."}],"words":[{"surface":"Y","lemma":"y","morphology":"conjunction","role":"links the coordination","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"se","lemma":"él","morphology":"pronoun, dative, reflexive","role":"reflexive dative particle of imaginaba (imaginarse)","gloss":"to himself"},{"surface":"imaginaba","lemma":"imaginar","morphology":"verb, imperfect, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"imagined"},{"surface":"la","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, feminine, 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This enclitic word order is literary and old-fashioned; everyday speech places the pronoun before the verb, «se decía»."}],"words":[{"surface":"Entonces","lemma":"entonces","morphology":"adverb","role":"modifies decíase","gloss":"then"},{"surface":"decíase","lemma":"decir","morphology":"verb, imperfect, indicative, third-person, singular, reflexive","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"would say to himself","note":"Archaic construction: «decíase» = «se decía» ('he would say to himself'), with the reflexive pronoun attached to the end of the verb."},{"surface":"entristecido","lemma":"entristecido","morphology":"adjective, masculine, singular","role":"predicate adjective describing the subject of decíase","gloss":"saddened"},{"surface":"de","lemma":"de","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking coraje","gloss":"by"},{"surface":"un","lemma":"uno","morphology":"determiner, masculine, singular","role":"determiner of coraje","gloss":"a"},{"surface":"coraje","lemma":"coraje","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"oblique complement of entristecido","gloss":"courage"},{"surface":"vago","lemma":"vago","morphology":"adjective, masculine, singular","role":"modifies coraje","gloss":"vague"}]},{"number":18,"label":"9","id":"el-terror-en-la-calle-p9-s1","source":"–Bueno, seré «cafisho».","translation":"–Well, I'll be a pimp.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-terror-en-la-calle-p9-s1.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"cafisho","title":"«cafisho» — lunfardo for pimp","body":"«cafisho» (also «cafishio», «cafiolo») is Buenos Aires «lunfardo» — the slang of the port and the tango — for a pimp who lives off a prostitute. Arlt's own quotation marks flag it as low street argot, the very degradation Erdosain is contemplating."}],"words":[{"surface":"Bueno","lemma":"Bueno","morphology":"interjection","role":"modifies seré","gloss":"well"},{"surface":"seré","lemma":"ser","morphology":"auxiliary verb, future, indicative, first-person, singular","role":"copula linking to cafisho","gloss":"will be"},{"surface":"cafisho","lemma":"cafisho","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"predicate nominal of seré","gloss":"pimp","note":"«Cafisho» is Lunfardo (Buenos Aires slang) for a pimp."}]},{"number":19,"label":"","id":"el-terror-en-la-calle-p9-s2","source":"–Y de pronto un horror más terrible que los otros horrores le destornillaba la conciencia.","translation":"–And all at once a horror more terrible than the other horrors would unscrew his conscience.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-terror-en-la-calle-p9-s2.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"destornillaba","title":"«destornillar» — to unscrew","body":"«destornillar» literally means to unscrew (un- + «tornillo», screw). Applied to «la conciencia», the verb makes the conscience a thing being twisted loose — one of Arlt's mechanical, industrial metaphors for psychic anguish."}],"words":[{"surface":"Y","lemma":"Y","morphology":"conjunction","role":"links the coordination","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"de","lemma":"de","morphology":"preposition","role":"heads the phrase de pronto, modifies destornillaba","gloss":"suddenly","note":"«De pronto» is a fixed phrase meaning 'suddenly, all at once.'"},{"surface":"pronto","lemma":"pronto","morphology":"adverb","role":"part of the phrase de","gloss":"suddenly"},{"surface":"un","lemma":"uno","morphology":"determiner, masculine, singular","role":"determiner of horror","gloss":"a"},{"surface":"horror","lemma":"horror","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"subject of destornillaba","gloss":"horror"},{"surface":"más","lemma":"más","morphology":"adverb","role":"modifies terrible","gloss":"more"},{"surface":"terrible","lemma":"terrible","morphology":"adjective, singular","role":"modifies horror","gloss":"terrible"},{"surface":"que","lemma":"que","morphology":"subordinating conjunction","role":"introduces the comparison with horrores","gloss":"than"},{"surface":"los","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, masculine, plural","role":"determiner of horrores","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"otros","lemma":"otro","morphology":"determiner, masculine, plural","role":"modifies horrores","gloss":"other"},{"surface":"horrores","lemma":"horror","morphology":"noun, masculine, plural","role":"object of the comparison introduced by que","gloss":"horrors"},{"surface":"le","lemma":"él","morphology":"pronoun, dative, singular","role":"indirect object of destornillaba","gloss":"his"},{"surface":"destornillaba","lemma":"destornillar","morphology":"verb, imperfect, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"would unscrew"},{"surface":"la","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, feminine, singular","role":"determiner of conciencia","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"conciencia","lemma":"conciencia","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"direct object of destornillaba","gloss":"conscience"}]},{"number":20,"label":"","id":"el-terror-en-la-calle-p9-s3","source":"El tenía la sensación de que todas las muescas de su alma sangraban como bajo la mecha de un torno, y paralizado el entendimiento, embotado de angustia, iba a loca ventura en busca de lenocinios.","translation":"He had the sensation that all the notches of his soul were bleeding as if under the bit of a lathe, and, his understanding paralyzed, dulled with anguish, he went off at wild random in search of brothels.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-terror-en-la-calle-p9-s3.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"torno / mecha","title":"«torno» and «mecha» — the lathe","body":"«torno» is a lathe (or drill) and «mecha» its bit/drill point. Erdosain, an inventor and would-be engineer, imagines his soul machined and bored — the factory floor invading the body, a signature Arlt image."}],"words":[{"surface":"El","lemma":"él","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, masculine, singular","role":"subject of tenía","gloss":"He","note":"Printed without the accent; this is 'Él' (he), the subject pronoun, not the article 'el' (the)."},{"surface":"tenía","lemma":"tener","morphology":"verb, imperfect, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"had"},{"surface":"la","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, feminine, singular","role":"determiner of sensación","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"sensación","lemma":"sensación","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"direct object of tenía","gloss":"sensation"},{"surface":"de","lemma":"de","morphology":"preposition","role":"introduces the clause of sangraban","gloss":"of"},{"surface":"que","lemma":"que","morphology":"subordinating conjunction","role":"introduces the clause of sangraban","gloss":"that"},{"surface":"todas","lemma":"todo","morphology":"determiner, feminine, plural","role":"determiner of muescas","gloss":"all"},{"surface":"las","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, feminine, plural","role":"determiner of muescas","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"muescas","lemma":"muesca","morphology":"noun, feminine, plural","role":"subject of sangraban","gloss":"notches"},{"surface":"de","lemma":"de","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking alma","gloss":"of"},{"surface":"su","lemma":"su","morphology":"determiner, singular","role":"determiner of alma","gloss":"his"},{"surface":"alma","lemma":"alma","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"modifies muescas","gloss":"soul"},{"surface":"sangraban","lemma":"sangrar","morphology":"verb, imperfect, indicative, third-person, plural","role":"clause modifying sensación","gloss":"were bleeding"},{"surface":"como","lemma":"como","morphology":"subordinating conjunction","role":"introduces the clause of mecha","gloss":"as if"},{"surface":"bajo","lemma":"bajo","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking mecha","gloss":"under"},{"surface":"la","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, feminine, singular","role":"determiner of mecha","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"mecha","lemma":"mecha","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"oblique complement of sangraban","gloss":"bit"},{"surface":"de","lemma":"de","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking torno","gloss":"of"},{"surface":"un","lemma":"uno","morphology":"determiner, masculine, singular","role":"determiner of torno","gloss":"a"},{"surface":"torno","lemma":"torno","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"modifies mecha","gloss":"lathe"},{"surface":"y","lemma":"y","morphology":"conjunction","role":"links the coordination","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"paralizado","lemma":"paralizar","morphology":"verb, past, participle, masculine, singular (absolute construction)","role":"adverbial clause on iba (absolute construction with entendimiento)","gloss":"paralyzed","note":"Participle-first word order marks an absolute construction: 'the understanding [being] paralyzed.'"},{"surface":"el","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, masculine, singular","role":"determiner of entendimiento","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"entendimiento","lemma":"entendimiento","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"subject of the absolute clause paralizado","gloss":"understanding"},{"surface":"embotado","lemma":"embotar","morphology":"verb, past, participle, masculine, singular","role":"modifies entendimiento","gloss":"dulled"},{"surface":"de","lemma":"de","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking angustia","gloss":"with"},{"surface":"angustia","lemma":"angustia","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"oblique complement of embotado","gloss":"anguish"},{"surface":"iba","lemma":"ir","morphology":"verb, imperfect, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the second clause, coordinated with tenía","gloss":"went"},{"surface":"a","lemma":"a","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking ventura","gloss":"at"},{"surface":"loca","lemma":"loco","morphology":"adjective, feminine, singular","role":"modifies ventura","gloss":"wild"},{"surface":"ventura","lemma":"ventura","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"oblique complement of iba","gloss":"random","note":"'ir a la ventura' is an idiom for wandering aimlessly; loca ('mad') intensifies it to 'wild random.'"},{"surface":"en","lemma":"en","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking busca","gloss":"in"},{"surface":"busca","lemma":"busca","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"oblique complement of iba","gloss":"search"},{"surface":"de","lemma":"de","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking lenocinios","gloss":"of"},{"surface":"lenocinios","lemma":"lenocinio","morphology":"noun, masculine, plural","role":"modifies busca","gloss":"brothels","note":"Lenocinio literally means procuring/pandering (the vice of the pimp); rendered loosely here as 'brothels.'"}]},{"number":21,"label":"","id":"el-terror-en-la-calle-p9-s4","source":"Entonces supo el terror del fraudulento, el terror luminoso que es como el estallido de un gran día de sol en la convexidad de una salitrera.","translation":"Then he knew the terror of the fraudster, the luminous terror that is like the burst of a great sunlit day over the convexity of a saltpetre works.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-terror-en-la-calle-p9-s4.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"supo","title":"«supo» — preterite of «saber»","body":"«supo» is the preterite of «saber», and in the preterite «saber» shifts meaning from 'to know' to 'to find out, to come to know': «entonces supo el terror» = 'then he came to know / first felt the terror'. The single completed event, not the ongoing state."}],"words":[{"surface":"Entonces","lemma":"entonces","morphology":"adverb","role":"modifies supo","gloss":"Then"},{"surface":"supo","lemma":"saber","morphology":"verb, past, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"knew"},{"surface":"el","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, masculine, singular","role":"determiner of terror","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"terror","lemma":"terror","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"direct object of supo","gloss":"terror"},{"surface":"del","lemma":"del","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking fraudulento","gloss":"of the"},{"surface":"fraudulento","lemma":"fraudulento","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"modifies terror","gloss":"fraudster"},{"surface":"el","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, masculine, singular","role":"determiner of terror","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"terror","lemma":"terror","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"in apposition to terror","gloss":"terror"},{"surface":"luminoso","lemma":"luminoso","morphology":"adjective, masculine, singular","role":"modifies terror","gloss":"luminous"},{"surface":"que","lemma":"que","morphology":"pronoun","role":"subject of es","gloss":"that"},{"surface":"es","lemma":"ser","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"copula linking to estallido","gloss":"is"},{"surface":"como","lemma":"como","morphology":"subordinating conjunction","role":"introduces the clause of estallido","gloss":"like"},{"surface":"el","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, masculine, singular","role":"determiner of estallido","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"estallido","lemma":"estallido","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"complement of como","gloss":"burst"},{"surface":"de","lemma":"de","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking día","gloss":"of"},{"surface":"un","lemma":"uno","morphology":"determiner, masculine, singular","role":"determiner of día","gloss":"a"},{"surface":"gran","lemma":"gran","morphology":"adjective, singular","role":"modifies día","gloss":"great"},{"surface":"día","lemma":"día","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"modifies estallido","gloss":"day"},{"surface":"de","lemma":"de","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking sol","gloss":"of"},{"surface":"sol","lemma":"sol","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"modifies día","gloss":"sun"},{"surface":"en","lemma":"en","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking convexidad","gloss":"over","note":"Literally 'in/on'; rendered 'over' here for the image of light spreading across the ground."},{"surface":"la","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, feminine, singular","role":"determiner of convexidad","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"convexidad","lemma":"convexidad","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"modifies estallido","gloss":"convexity"},{"surface":"de","lemma":"de","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking salitrera","gloss":"of"},{"surface":"una","lemma":"uno","morphology":"determiner, feminine, singular","role":"determiner of salitrera","gloss":"a"},{"surface":"salitrera","lemma":"salitrera","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"modifies convexidad","gloss":"saltpetre works"}]},{"number":22,"label":"10","id":"el-terror-en-la-calle-p10-s1","source":"Se dejó arrastrar por los impulsos que retuercen al hombre que se siente por primera vez a las puertas de la cárcel, impulsos ciegos que conducen a un desdichado a jugarse la vida en un naipe o en una mujer.","translation":"He let himself be dragged along by the impulses that wrench at the man who feels himself for the first time at the gates of prison, blind impulses that drive a wretch to gamble his life on a playing card or on a woman.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-terror-en-la-calle-p10-s1.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"se dejó arrastrar","title":"«dejarse» + infinitive — to let oneself be","body":"«dejarse» plus an infinitive means 'to let oneself be (done to)': «se dejó arrastrar» = 'he let himself be dragged'. The reflexive «se» turns the subject into the one who allows the action upon himself — passive in sense, active in grammar."}],"words":[{"surface":"Se","lemma":"él","morphology":"pronoun, accusative, reflexive","role":"reflexive particle of dejó","gloss":"himself"},{"surface":"dejó","lemma":"dejar","morphology":"verb, past, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"let"},{"surface":"arrastrar","lemma":"arrastrar","morphology":"verb, infinitive","role":"complement of dejó","gloss":"be dragged"},{"surface":"por","lemma":"por","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking impulsos","gloss":"by"},{"surface":"los","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, masculine, plural","role":"determiner of impulsos","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"impulsos","lemma":"impulso","morphology":"noun, masculine, plural","role":"object of por, agent of arrastrar","gloss":"impulses"},{"surface":"que","lemma":"que","morphology":"pronoun","role":"subject of retuercen","gloss":"that"},{"surface":"retuercen","lemma":"retorcer","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, plural","role":"clause modifying impulsos","gloss":"wrench"},{"surface":"al","lemma":"al","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking hombre (personal a)","gloss":"the","note":"This is the personal 'a' (fused with 'el'), required before a human direct object; it has no separate English translation."},{"surface":"hombre","lemma":"hombre","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"direct object of retuercen","gloss":"man"},{"surface":"que","lemma":"que","morphology":"pronoun","role":"subject of siente","gloss":"who"},{"surface":"se","lemma":"él","morphology":"pronoun, accusative, reflexive","role":"reflexive particle of siente","gloss":"himself"},{"surface":"siente","lemma":"sentir","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"clause modifying hombre","gloss":"feels"},{"surface":"por","lemma":"por","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking vez","gloss":"for"},{"surface":"primera","lemma":"primero","morphology":"adjective, feminine, singular","role":"modifies vez","gloss":"first"},{"surface":"vez","lemma":"vez","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"oblique complement of siente","gloss":"time"},{"surface":"a","lemma":"a","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking puertas","gloss":"at"},{"surface":"las","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, feminine, plural","role":"determiner of puertas","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"puertas","lemma":"puerta","morphology":"noun, feminine, plural","role":"oblique complement of siente","gloss":"gates"},{"surface":"de","lemma":"de","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking cárcel","gloss":"of"},{"surface":"la","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, feminine, singular","role":"determiner of cárcel","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"cárcel","lemma":"cárcel","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"modifies puertas","gloss":"prison"},{"surface":"impulsos","lemma":"impulso","morphology":"noun, masculine, plural","role":"in apposition to impulsos","gloss":"impulses"},{"surface":"ciegos","lemma":"ciego","morphology":"adjective, masculine, plural","role":"modifies impulsos","gloss":"blind"},{"surface":"que","lemma":"que","morphology":"pronoun","role":"subject of conducen","gloss":"that"},{"surface":"conducen","lemma":"conducir","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, plural","role":"clause modifying impulsos","gloss":"drive"},{"surface":"a","lemma":"a","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking desdichado (personal a)","gloss":"object marker","note":"This is the personal 'a,' required before a direct object referring to people; it has no separate English translation."},{"surface":"un","lemma":"uno","morphology":"determiner, masculine, singular","role":"determiner of desdichado","gloss":"a"},{"surface":"desdichado","lemma":"desdichado","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"direct object of conducen","gloss":"wretch"},{"surface":"a","lemma":"a","morphology":"preposition","role":"introduces the clause of jugarse","gloss":"to"},{"surface":"jugarse","lemma":"jugar él","morphology":"verb, infinitive","role":"complement of conducen","gloss":"gamble"},{"surface":"la","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, feminine, singular","role":"determiner of vida","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"vida","lemma":"vida","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"direct object of jugarse","gloss":"life","note":"Spanish uses the definite article with the reflexive (jugarse la vida, 'to gamble the life'); English idiomatically supplies the possessive, 'his life.'"},{"surface":"en","lemma":"en","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking naipe","gloss":"on"},{"surface":"un","lemma":"uno","morphology":"determiner, masculine, singular","role":"determiner of naipe","gloss":"a"},{"surface":"naipe","lemma":"naipe","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"oblique complement of jugarse","gloss":"playing card"},{"surface":"o","lemma":"o","morphology":"conjunction","role":"links the coordination","gloss":"or"},{"surface":"en","lemma":"en","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking mujer","gloss":"on"},{"surface":"una","lemma":"uno","morphology":"determiner, feminine, singular","role":"determiner of mujer","gloss":"a"},{"surface":"mujer","lemma":"mujer","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"coordinated with naipe","gloss":"woman"}]},{"number":23,"label":"","id":"el-terror-en-la-calle-p10-s2","source":"Quizá buscando en el naipe y en la hembra una consolación brutal y triste, quizá buscando en todo lo más vil y hundido cierta certidumbre de pureza que lo salvará definitivamente.","translation":"Perhaps seeking in the card and in the female a brutal, sad consolation, perhaps seeking in everything most vile and sunken a certain certainty of purity that would save him for good.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-terror-en-la-calle-p10-s2.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"todo lo más vil","title":"Neuter «lo» + adjective","body":"«lo» before an adjective makes an abstract noun out of a quality: «lo más vil y hundido» = 'what is most vile and sunken', 'the vilest and most abased'. This neuter «lo» (not the masculine article) is how Spanish names a quality in the abstract."}],"words":[{"surface":"Quizá","lemma":"quizá","morphology":"adverb","role":"modifies buscando","gloss":"Perhaps"},{"surface":"buscando","lemma":"buscar","morphology":"verb, gerund","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"seeking"},{"surface":"en","lemma":"en","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking naipe","gloss":"in"},{"surface":"el","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, masculine, singular","role":"determiner of naipe","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"naipe","lemma":"naipe","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"oblique complement of buscando","gloss":"card"},{"surface":"y","lemma":"y","morphology":"conjunction","role":"links the coordination","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"en","lemma":"en","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking hembra","gloss":"in"},{"surface":"la","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, feminine, singular","role":"determiner of hembra","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"hembra","lemma":"hembra","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"coordinated with naipe","gloss":"female"},{"surface":"una","lemma":"uno","morphology":"determiner, feminine, singular","role":"determiner of consolación","gloss":"a"},{"surface":"consolación","lemma":"consolación","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"direct object of buscando","gloss":"consolation"},{"surface":"brutal","lemma":"brutal","morphology":"adjective, singular","role":"modifies consolación","gloss":"brutal"},{"surface":"y","lemma":"y","morphology":"conjunction","role":"links the coordination","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"triste","lemma":"triste","morphology":"adjective, singular","role":"coordinated with brutal","gloss":"sad"},{"surface":"quizá","lemma":"quizá","morphology":"adverb","role":"modifies buscando","gloss":"perhaps"},{"surface":"buscando","lemma":"buscar","morphology":"verb, gerund","role":"parallels buscando (repeats the construction)","gloss":"seeking"},{"surface":"en","lemma":"en","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking vil","gloss":"in"},{"surface":"todo","lemma":"todo","morphology":"determiner, masculine, singular","role":"determiner of lo","gloss":"all"},{"surface":"lo","lemma":"el","morphology":"pronoun, neuter, singular","role":"determiner of vil","gloss":"what","note":"'lo' + adjective forms an abstract noun: 'todo lo más vil y hundido' = 'everything most vile and sunken.'"},{"surface":"más","lemma":"más","morphology":"adverb","role":"modifies vil","gloss":"most"},{"surface":"vil","lemma":"vil","morphology":"adjective, singular","role":"oblique complement of buscando","gloss":"vile"},{"surface":"y","lemma":"y","morphology":"conjunction","role":"links the coordination","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"hundido","lemma":"hundir","morphology":"verb, past, participle, masculine, singular","role":"coordinated with vil","gloss":"sunken"},{"surface":"cierta","lemma":"cierto","morphology":"determiner, feminine, singular","role":"determiner of certidumbre","gloss":"a certain"},{"surface":"certidumbre","lemma":"certidumbre","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"direct object of buscando","gloss":"certainty"},{"surface":"de","lemma":"de","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking pureza","gloss":"of"},{"surface":"pureza","lemma":"pureza","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"modifies certidumbre","gloss":"purity"},{"surface":"que","lemma":"que","morphology":"pronoun","role":"subject of salvará","gloss":"that"},{"surface":"lo","lemma":"él","morphology":"pronoun, accusative, masculine, singular","role":"direct object of salvará","gloss":"him"},{"surface":"salvará","lemma":"salvar","morphology":"verb, future, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"clause modifying certidumbre","gloss":"would save"},{"surface":"definitivamente","lemma":"definitivamente","morphology":"adverb","role":"modifies salvará","gloss":"for good"}]},{"number":24,"label":"11","id":"el-terror-en-la-calle-p11-s1","source":"Y en las calurosas horas de la siesta, bajo el sol amarillo caminó por las aceras de mosaicos calientes en busca de los prostíbulos más inmundos.","translation":"And in the sweltering hours of the siesta, under the yellow sun, he walked along sidewalks of hot tiles in search of the filthiest brothels.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-terror-en-la-calle-p11-s1.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"caminó","title":"Preterite for the completed walk","body":"«caminó» is the preterite of «caminar». After paragraphs of habitual imperfects ('he would walk', 'he used to take a bus'), the narration drops into the preterite for a specific, completed action — a particular afternoon's walk — sharpening the focus from habit to scene."}],"words":[{"surface":"Y","lemma":"y","morphology":"conjunction","role":"modifies caminó","gloss":"And"},{"surface":"en","lemma":"en","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking horas","gloss":"in"},{"surface":"las","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, feminine, plural","role":"determiner of horas","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"calurosas","lemma":"caluroso","morphology":"adjective, feminine, plural","role":"modifies horas","gloss":"sweltering"},{"surface":"horas","lemma":"hora","morphology":"noun, feminine, plural","role":"oblique complement of caminó","gloss":"hours"},{"surface":"de","lemma":"de","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking siesta","gloss":"of"},{"surface":"la","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, feminine, singular","role":"determiner of siesta","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"siesta","lemma":"siesta","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"modifies horas","gloss":"siesta"},{"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":"oblique complement of caminó","gloss":"sun"},{"surface":"amarillo","lemma":"amarillo","morphology":"adjective, masculine, singular","role":"modifies sol","gloss":"yellow"},{"surface":"caminó","lemma":"caminar","morphology":"verb, past, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"walked"},{"surface":"por","lemma":"por","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking aceras","gloss":"along"},{"surface":"las","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, feminine, plural","role":"determiner of aceras","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"aceras","lemma":"acera","morphology":"noun, feminine, plural","role":"oblique complement of caminó","gloss":"sidewalks"},{"surface":"de","lemma":"de","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking mosaicos","gloss":"of"},{"surface":"mosaicos","lemma":"mosaico","morphology":"noun, masculine, plural","role":"modifies aceras","gloss":"tiles"},{"surface":"calientes","lemma":"caliente","morphology":"adjective, plural","role":"modifies mosaicos","gloss":"hot"},{"surface":"en","lemma":"en","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking busca","gloss":"in"},{"surface":"busca","lemma":"busca","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"oblique complement of caminó","gloss":"search"},{"surface":"de","lemma":"de","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking prostíbulos","gloss":"of"},{"surface":"los","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, masculine, plural","role":"determiner of prostíbulos","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"prostíbulos","lemma":"prostíbulo","morphology":"noun, masculine, plural","role":"modifies busca","gloss":"brothels"},{"surface":"más","lemma":"más","morphology":"adverb","role":"modifies inmundos","gloss":"most"},{"surface":"inmundos","lemma":"inmundo","morphology":"adjective, masculine, plural","role":"modifies prostíbulos","gloss":"filthy"}]},{"number":25,"label":"12","id":"el-terror-en-la-calle-p12-s1","source":"Escogía con preferencia aquellos en cuyos zaguanes veía cáscaras de naranja y regueros de ceniza y los vidrios forrados de bayeta roja o verde, protegidos por mallas de alambre.","translation":"He chose by preference those in whose entryways he saw orange peels and trails of ash, and the panes lined with red or green baize, protected by wire mesh.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-terror-en-la-calle-p12-s1.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"zaguanes","title":"«zaguán» — the entry hall","body":"A «zaguán» is the covered entryway or vestibule between the street door and the inner courtyard of a traditional house — a recurring threshold space in Buenos Aires fiction. Here its litter of orange peel and ash signals the squalor Erdosain seeks out."}],"words":[{"surface":"Escogía","lemma":"escoger","morphology":"verb, imperfect, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"he chose"},{"surface":"con","lemma":"con","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking preferencia","gloss":"with"},{"surface":"preferencia","lemma":"preferencia","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"object of con","gloss":"preference"},{"surface":"aquellos","lemma":"aquel","morphology":"pronoun, masculine, plural","role":"direct object of Escogía","gloss":"those"},{"surface":"en","lemma":"en","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking zaguanes","gloss":"in"},{"surface":"cuyos","lemma":"cuyo","morphology":"pronoun, masculine, plural","role":"modifies zaguanes","gloss":"whose","note":"Possessive relative pronoun: agrees with the noun it introduces (zaguanes), not with its antecedent."},{"surface":"zaguanes","lemma":"zaguán","morphology":"noun, masculine, plural","role":"oblique complement of veía","gloss":"entryways"},{"surface":"veía","lemma":"ver","morphology":"verb, imperfect, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"verb of the relative clause modifying aquellos","gloss":"he saw"},{"surface":"cáscaras","lemma":"cáscara","morphology":"noun, feminine, plural","role":"direct object of veía","gloss":"peels"},{"surface":"de","lemma":"de","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking naranja","gloss":"of"},{"surface":"naranja","lemma":"naranja","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"modifies cáscaras","gloss":"orange"},{"surface":"y","lemma":"y","morphology":"conjunction","role":"links the coordination","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"regueros","lemma":"reguero","morphology":"noun, masculine, plural","role":"coordinated with cáscaras","gloss":"trails"},{"surface":"de","lemma":"de","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking ceniza","gloss":"of"},{"surface":"ceniza","lemma":"ceniza","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"modifies regueros","gloss":"ash"},{"surface":"y","lemma":"y","morphology":"conjunction","role":"links the coordination","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"los","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, masculine, plural","role":"determiner of vidrios","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"vidrios","lemma":"vidrio","morphology":"noun, masculine, plural","role":"coordinated with regueros","gloss":"panes"},{"surface":"forrados","lemma":"forrado","morphology":"adjective, masculine, plural","role":"modifies vidrios","gloss":"lined"},{"surface":"de","lemma":"de","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking bayeta","gloss":"with"},{"surface":"bayeta","lemma":"bayeta","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"oblique complement of forrados","gloss":"baize"},{"surface":"roja","lemma":"rojo","morphology":"adjective, feminine, singular","role":"modifies bayeta","gloss":"red"},{"surface":"o","lemma":"o","morphology":"conjunction","role":"links the coordination","gloss":"or"},{"surface":"verde","lemma":"verde","morphology":"adjective, singular","role":"coordinated with roja","gloss":"green"},{"surface":"protegidos","lemma":"protegido","morphology":"adjective, masculine, plural","role":"modifies vidrios","gloss":"protected"},{"surface":"por","lemma":"por","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking mallas","gloss":"by"},{"surface":"mallas","lemma":"malla","morphology":"noun, feminine, plural","role":"oblique complement of protegidos","gloss":"mesh"},{"surface":"de","lemma":"de","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking alambre","gloss":"of"},{"surface":"alambre","lemma":"alambre","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"modifies mallas","gloss":"wire"}]},{"number":26,"label":"13","id":"el-terror-en-la-calle-p13-s1","source":"Entraba con la muerte en el alma.","translation":"He would go in with death in his soul.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-terror-en-la-calle-p13-s1.m4a","notes":[],"words":[{"surface":"Entraba","lemma":"entrar","morphology":"verb, imperfect, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"would go in"},{"surface":"con","lemma":"con","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking muerte","gloss":"with"},{"surface":"la","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, feminine, singular","role":"determiner of muerte","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"muerte","lemma":"muerte","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"oblique complement of Entraba","gloss":"death"},{"surface":"en","lemma":"en","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking alma","gloss":"in"},{"surface":"el","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, feminine, singular","role":"determiner of alma","gloss":"the","note":"'Alma' is a feminine noun; 'el' replaces 'la' here only because of the Spanish rule for feminine nouns beginning with stressed a- (el alma, el agua, el hacha). 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Both are euphemistic period terms; «pupila» literally means 'ward, pupil', dressing the trade in the language of guardianship."}],"words":[{"surface":"En","lemma":"en","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking patio","gloss":"in"},{"surface":"el","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, masculine, singular","role":"determiner of patio","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"patio","lemma":"patio","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"oblique complement of había","gloss":"courtyard"},{"surface":"bajo","lemma":"bajo","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking cielo","gloss":"under"},{"surface":"el","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, masculine, singular","role":"determiner of cielo","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"recuadrado","lemma":"recuadrado","morphology":"adjective, masculine, singular","role":"modifies cielo","gloss":"framed"},{"surface":"cielo","lemma":"cielo","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"oblique complement of 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feminine, singular","role":"coordinated with flaca","gloss":"fat"}]},{"number":28,"label":"14","id":"el-terror-en-la-calle-p14-s1","source":"Y la meretriz le gritaba desde la puerta entreabierta del dormitorio, en cuyo interior se escuchaba el ruido de un hombre que se vestía:","translation":"And the harlot would shout to him from the half-open door of the bedroom, inside which one could hear the sound of a man getting dressed:","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-terror-en-la-calle-p14-s1.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"meretriz","title":"«meretriz» — a literary word for prostitute","body":"«meretriz» is a high, Latinate word for a prostitute, from Latin «meretrix». Arlt sets it against the street slang elsewhere in the passage («cafisho», «morcona»), the formal register clashing with the squalid scene."}],"words":[{"surface":"Y","lemma":"y","morphology":"conjunction","role":"connects to the previous sentence","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"la","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, feminine, singular","role":"determiner of meretriz","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"meretriz","lemma":"meretriz","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"subject of gritaba","gloss":"harlot"},{"surface":"le","lemma":"él","morphology":"pronoun, dative, singular","role":"indirect object of gritaba","gloss":"to him"},{"surface":"gritaba","lemma":"gritar","morphology":"verb, imperfect, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"would shout"},{"surface":"desde","lemma":"desde","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking puerta","gloss":"from"},{"surface":"la","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, feminine, singular","role":"determiner of puerta","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"puerta","lemma":"puerta","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"oblique complement of gritaba","gloss":"door"},{"surface":"entreabierta","lemma":"entreabierto","morphology":"adjective, feminine, singular","role":"modifies puerta","gloss":"half-open"},{"surface":"del","lemma":"del","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking dormitorio","gloss":"of the"},{"surface":"dormitorio","lemma":"dormitorio","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"modifies puerta","gloss":"bedroom"},{"surface":"en","lemma":"en","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking interior","gloss":"in"},{"surface":"cuyo","lemma":"cuyo","morphology":"pronoun, masculine, singular","role":"modifies interior","gloss":"whose","note":"Possessive relative pronoun: agrees with the noun it introduces (interior), not with its antecedent (dormitorio)."},{"surface":"interior","lemma":"interior","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"oblique complement of escuchaba","gloss":"inside"},{"surface":"se","lemma":"él","morphology":"pronoun, impersonal/passive marker","role":"passive marker of escuchaba","gloss":"one"},{"surface":"escuchaba","lemma":"escuchar","morphology":"verb, imperfect, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"verb of the relative clause modifying dormitorio","gloss":"could hear"},{"surface":"el","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, masculine, singular","role":"determiner of ruido","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"ruido","lemma":"ruido","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"subject of escuchaba","gloss":"sound"},{"surface":"de","lemma":"de","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking hombre","gloss":"of"},{"surface":"un","lemma":"uno","morphology":"determiner, masculine, singular","role":"determiner of hombre","gloss":"a"},{"surface":"hombre","lemma":"hombre","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"modifies ruido","gloss":"man"},{"surface":"que","lemma":"que","morphology":"pronoun","role":"subject of vestía","gloss":"who"},{"surface":"se","lemma":"él","morphology":"pronoun, accusative, reflexive","role":"reflexive particle of vestía","gloss":"himself"},{"surface":"vestía","lemma":"vestir","morphology":"verb, imperfect, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"clause modifying hombre","gloss":"was getting dressed"}]},{"number":29,"label":"15","id":"el-terror-en-la-calle-p15-s1","source":"–¿Vamos, querido? –y Erdosain entraba al otro dormitorio, zumbándole los oídos y con una niebla girante en las pupilas.","translation":"–Shall we go, dear? –and Erdosain would walk into the other bedroom, his ears ringing and a whirling mist over his eyes.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-terror-en-la-calle-p15-s1.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"zumbándole los oídos","title":"Gerund + dative of the body part","body":"«zumbándole los oídos» = 'his ears ringing for him'. Spanish uses an indirect-object pronoun («le») where English uses a possessive: the body part takes the definite article «los oídos», and «le» marks whose ears they are."}],"words":[{"surface":"Vamos","lemma":"ir","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, first-person, plural","role":"main verb of the question","gloss":"shall we go"},{"surface":"querido","lemma":"querido","morphology":"adjective, masculine, singular","role":"vocative address","gloss":"dear"},{"surface":"y","lemma":"y","morphology":"conjunction","role":"links the coordination","gloss":"and"},{"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":"would walk in"},{"surface":"al","lemma":"al","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking 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niebla","gloss":"with"},{"surface":"una","lemma":"uno","morphology":"determiner, feminine, singular","role":"determiner of niebla","gloss":"a"},{"surface":"niebla","lemma":"niebla","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"object of con","gloss":"mist"},{"surface":"girante","lemma":"girante","morphology":"adjective, singular","role":"modifies niebla","gloss":"whirling"},{"surface":"en","lemma":"en","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking pupilas","gloss":"in"},{"surface":"las","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, feminine, plural","role":"determiner of pupilas","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"pupilas","lemma":"pupila","morphology":"noun, feminine, plural","role":"oblique complement of girante","gloss":"eyes"}]},{"number":30,"label":"16","id":"el-terror-en-la-calle-p16-s1","source":"Luego se recostaba en el lecho barnizado de color de hígado, encima de las mantas sucias por los botines, que protegían la colcha.","translation":"Then he would lie back on the bed varnished a liver color, on top of the blankets dirtied by boots, which protected the bedspread.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-terror-en-la-calle-p16-s1.m4a","notes":[],"words":[{"surface":"Luego","lemma":"luego","morphology":"adverb","role":"modifies recostaba","gloss":"Then"},{"surface":"se","lemma":"él","morphology":"pronoun, accusative, reflexive","role":"reflexive particle of recostaba","gloss":"himself"},{"surface":"recostaba","lemma":"recostar","morphology":"verb, imperfect, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"would lie back"},{"surface":"en","lemma":"en","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking lecho","gloss":"on"},{"surface":"el","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, masculine, singular","role":"determiner of lecho","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"lecho","lemma":"lecho","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"oblique complement of recostaba","gloss":"bed"},{"surface":"barnizado","lemma":"barnizado","morphology":"adjective, masculine, singular","role":"modifies lecho","gloss":"varnished"},{"surface":"de","lemma":"de","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking color","gloss":"in"},{"surface":"color","lemma":"color","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"object of de, modifying barnizado","gloss":"color"},{"surface":"de","lemma":"de","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking hígado","gloss":"of"},{"surface":"hígado","lemma":"hígado","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"modifies color","gloss":"liver"},{"surface":"encima","lemma":"encima","morphology":"adverb","role":"modifies recostaba","gloss":"on top"},{"surface":"de","lemma":"de","morphology":"preposition","role":"part of the phrase encima","gloss":"of"},{"surface":"las","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, feminine, plural","role":"determiner of 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It's the meaning that settles it: it's the blankets, not the boots, that would be shielding the bedspread underneath them."},{"surface":"protegían","lemma":"proteger","morphology":"verb, imperfect, indicative, third-person, plural","role":"clause modifying mantas","gloss":"protected"},{"surface":"la","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, feminine, singular","role":"determiner of colcha","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"colcha","lemma":"colcha","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"direct object of protegían","gloss":"bedspread"}]},{"number":31,"label":"17","id":"el-terror-en-la-calle-p17-s1","source":"Súbitamente sentía deseos de llorar, de preguntarle a esa horrible morcona qué cosa era el amor, el angélico amor que los coros celestiales cantaban al pie del trono de Dios vivo, pero la angustia le taponaba la laringe mientras que de repugnancia el estómago se le cerraba como un puño.","translation":"Suddenly he would feel an urge to weep, to ask that horrible fat slut what love was, the angelic love that the celestial choirs sang at the foot of the throne of the living God, but anguish would plug his larynx while from revulsion his stomach clenched on him like a fist.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-terror-en-la-calle-p17-s1.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"morcona","title":"«morcona» — a crude insult","body":"«morcona» is a coarse, contemptuous term for a fat, slovenly woman, built from «morcón» (a thick blood sausage). It is deliberately ugly, the street's vocabulary erupting into the same breath as «el angélico amor» — Arlt's collision of the sacred and the sordid."}],"words":[{"surface":"Súbitamente","lemma":"súbitamente","morphology":"adverb","role":"modifies sentía","gloss":"Suddenly"},{"surface":"sentía","lemma":"sentir","morphology":"verb, imperfect, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"would feel"},{"surface":"deseos","lemma":"deseo","morphology":"noun, masculine, plural","role":"direct object of sentía","gloss":"urge"},{"surface":"de","lemma":"de","morphology":"preposition","role":"introduces the clause of llorar","gloss":"to"},{"surface":"llorar","lemma":"llorar","morphology":"verb, infinitive","role":"clause modifying deseos","gloss":"weep"},{"surface":"de","lemma":"de","morphology":"preposition","role":"introduces the clause of preguntarle","gloss":"to"},{"surface":"preguntarle","lemma":"preguntar él","morphology":"verb, infinitive","role":"clause modifying deseos","gloss":"ask her"},{"surface":"a","lemma":"a","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking morcona","gloss":"to"},{"surface":"esa","lemma":"ese","morphology":"determiner, feminine, singular","role":"determiner of morcona","gloss":"that"},{"surface":"horrible","lemma":"horrible","morphology":"adjective, singular","role":"modifies morcona","gloss":"horrible"},{"surface":"morcona","lemma":"morcona","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"indirect object of preguntarle (doubling le)","gloss":"fat slob","note":"Porteño slang (from morcón/morcilla, a fat blood sausage) — a coarse insult for a fat woman. The etymology points to her bulk, not promiscuity, so \"slut\" overreaches; \"fat slob\"/\"fat pig\" keeps the coarseness without inventing a meaning the word doesn't carry."},{"surface":"qué","lemma":"qué","morphology":"determiner","role":"determiner of cosa","gloss":"what"},{"surface":"cosa","lemma":"cosa","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"predicate complement of era","gloss":"thing","note":"\"Qué cosa\" is colloquial for plain \"qué\" (what) — the extra word adds emphasis, not new meaning."},{"surface":"era","lemma":"ser","morphology":"auxiliary verb, imperfect, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"copula linking amor and cosa","gloss":"was"},{"surface":"el","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, masculine, singular","role":"determiner of amor","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"amor","lemma":"amor","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"subject of era","gloss":"love"},{"surface":"el","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, masculine, 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que","gloss":"clenched"},{"surface":"como","lemma":"como","morphology":"subordinating conjunction","role":"introduces the clause of puño","gloss":"like"},{"surface":"un","lemma":"uno","morphology":"determiner, masculine, singular","role":"determiner of puño","gloss":"a"},{"surface":"puño","lemma":"puño","morphology":"noun, masculine, singular","role":"oblique complement of cerraba","gloss":"fist"}]},{"number":32,"label":"18","id":"el-terror-en-la-calle-p18-s1","source":"Y en tanto la prostituta dejaba estar la movediza mano encima de sus ropas.","translation":"And meanwhile the prostitute would leave her restless hand resting on his clothes.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-terror-en-la-calle-p18-s1.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"en tanto","title":"«en tanto» — meanwhile","body":"«en tanto» (here short for «en tanto que») means 'meanwhile, while': it links two simultaneous actions. «dejaba estar» literally 'let be' — she let her hand stay, left it resting — an idiomatic 'leave (something) be'."}],"words":[{"surface":"Y","lemma":"y","morphology":"conjunction","role":"connects to the previous sentence","gloss":"And"},{"surface":"en","lemma":"en","morphology":"preposition","role":"introduces the idiom en tanto, modifying dejaba","gloss":"meanwhile"},{"surface":"tanto","lemma":"tanto","morphology":"noun","role":"part of the idiomatic phrase en tanto","gloss":"meanwhile","note":"\"En tanto\" is a fixed phrase meaning \"meanwhile\"; tanto alone usually means \"so much.\""},{"surface":"la","lemma":"el","morphology":"determiner, feminine, singular","role":"determiner of prostituta","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"prostituta","lemma":"prostituta","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"subject of dejaba","gloss":"prostitute"},{"surface":"dejaba","lemma":"dejar","morphology":"verb, imperfect, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"would leave"},{"surface":"estar","lemma":"estar","morphology":"auxiliary 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encima","gloss":"clothes"}]},{"number":33,"label":"","id":"el-terror-en-la-calle-p18-s2","source":"Erdosain se decía:","translation":"Erdosain would say to himself:","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-terror-en-la-calle-p18-s2.m4a","notes":[],"words":[{"surface":"Erdosain","lemma":"Erdosain","morphology":"proper noun","role":"subject of decía","gloss":"Erdosain"},{"surface":"se","lemma":"él","morphology":"pronoun, dative, reflexive","role":"reflexive particle of decía","gloss":"to himself"},{"surface":"decía","lemma":"decir","morphology":"verb, imperfect, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"would say"}]},{"number":34,"label":"19","id":"el-terror-en-la-calle-p19-s1","source":"–¿Qué he hecho de mi vida?","translation":"–What have I made of my life?","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-terror-en-la-calle-p19-s1.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"¿Qué he hecho?","title":"Present perfect: «he hecho»","body":"«he hecho» is the present perfect ('I have done/made'), «haber» in the present + the participle «hecho» (irregular, from «hacer»). It views a past act with present relevance: 'what have I made of my life' — the reckoning landing now."}],"words":[{"surface":"Qué","lemma":"qué","morphology":"pronoun, singular","role":"direct object of hecho","gloss":"What"},{"surface":"he","lemma":"haber","morphology":"auxiliary verb, present, indicative, first-person, singular","role":"auxiliary of hecho","gloss":"have"},{"surface":"hecho","lemma":"hacer","morphology":"verb, past, participle, masculine, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"made"},{"surface":"de","lemma":"de","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking vida","gloss":"of"},{"surface":"mi","lemma":"mi","morphology":"determiner, singular","role":"determiner of vida","gloss":"my"},{"surface":"vida","lemma":"vida","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"direct object of hecho","gloss":"life"}]},{"number":35,"label":"20","id":"el-terror-en-la-calle-p20-s1","source":"Una rayo de sol sesgaba el cristal de la banderola cubierta de telas de araña, y la meretriz, con la mejilla apoyada en la almohada y una pierna cargada sobre la suya, movía lentamente la mano mientras él entristecido se decía:","translation":"A ray of sun cut aslant the glass of the transom covered with cobwebs, and the harlot, her cheek resting on the pillow and one leg laid over his, moved her hand slowly while he, saddened, said to himself:","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-terror-en-la-calle-p20-s1.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"sobre la suya","title":"Possessive pronoun «la suya»","body":"«la suya» is the possessive pronoun 'his/hers/its (one)', standing in for «su pierna»: «una pierna cargada sobre la suya» = 'one leg laid over his (leg)'. 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decía","gloss":"while"},{"surface":"él","lemma":"él","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, masculine, singular","role":"subject of decía","gloss":"he"},{"surface":"entristecido","lemma":"entristecido","morphology":"adjective, masculine, singular","role":"modifies él","gloss":"saddened"},{"surface":"se","lemma":"él","morphology":"pronoun, dative, reflexive","role":"reflexive particle of decía","gloss":"to himself"},{"surface":"decía","lemma":"decir","morphology":"verb, imperfect, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"clause modifying movía","gloss":"said"}]},{"number":36,"label":"21","id":"el-terror-en-la-calle-p21-s1","source":"–¿Qué es lo que he hecho de mi vida?","translation":"–What is it that I have made of my life?","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-terror-en-la-calle-p21-s1.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"lo que","title":"«lo que» — what / that which","body":"«lo que» means 'what' in the sense of 'that which': «¿qué es lo que he hecho?» = 'what is it that I have done?'. The cleft phrasing is heavier and more anguished than the bare «¿qué he hecho?» of two lines earlier — the same question pressed harder."}],"words":[{"surface":"Qué","lemma":"qué","morphology":"pronoun, singular","role":"predicate complement of es","gloss":"What"},{"surface":"es","lemma":"ser","morphology":"auxiliary verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"is"},{"surface":"lo","lemma":"el","morphology":"pronoun, accusative, masculine, singular","role":"part of the relative phrase lo que, subject of es","gloss":"that"},{"surface":"que","lemma":"que","morphology":"pronoun","role":"direct object of hecho","gloss":"which"},{"surface":"he","lemma":"haber","morphology":"auxiliary verb, present, indicative, first-person, singular","role":"auxiliary of hecho","gloss":"have"},{"surface":"hecho","lemma":"hacer","morphology":"verb, past, participle, masculine, singular","role":"verb of the relative clause (subject of es)","gloss":"made"},{"surface":"de","lemma":"de","morphology":"preposition","role":"preposition marking vida","gloss":"of"},{"surface":"mi","lemma":"mi","morphology":"determiner, singular","role":"determiner of vida","gloss":"my"},{"surface":"vida","lemma":"vida","morphology":"noun, feminine, singular","role":"oblique complement of hecho","gloss":"life"}]},{"number":37,"label":"22","id":"el-terror-en-la-calle-p22-s1","source":"Súbitamente el remordimiento le entristecía el alma, se acordaba de su esposa que por falta de dinero tenía que lavarse la ropa a pesar de estar enferma, y entonces, asqueado de sí mismo, saltaba del lecho, le entregaba el dinero a la prostituta, y sin haberla usado, huía hacia otro infierno a gastar el dinero que no le pertenecía, a hundirse más en su locura que aullaba a todas horas.","translation":"Suddenly remorse would sadden his soul; he would remember his wife, who for lack of money had to wash her own clothes despite being ill, and then, sickened by himself, he would leap from the bed, hand the money to the prostitute, and, without having used her, flee toward another hell to spend the money that did not belong to him, to sink deeper into his madness that howled at every hour.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/arlt/el-terror-en-la-calle-p22-s1.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"se acordaba de","title":"«acordarse de» — to remember","body":"«acordarse de» is the pronominal verb for 'to remember', always taking «de» before its object: «se acordaba de su esposa» = 'he remembered his wife'. Don't confuse it with non-reflexive «acordar» ('to agree (on)'); the «se» and the «de» are what make it 'remember'."},{"kind":"grammar","term":"sin haberla usado","title":"«sin» + perfect infinitive","body":"«sin haberla usado» = 'without having used her'. «sin» + the perfect infinitive («haber» + participle) expresses an action that did not happen before another: he flees 'without having used' her. 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