{"work":{"slug":"rilke","title":{"source":"Neue Gedichte","translated":"New Poems"},"author":"Rainer Maria Rilke","language":"German","languageCode":"de","url":"https://1732studios.com/books/rilke"},"unit":{"kind":"poem","number":null,"id":"begegnung-in-der-kastanien-allee","title":{"source":"Begegnung in der Kastanien-Allee","translated":"Encounter in the Chestnut Avenue"},"section":"New Poems: The Other Part","summary":null,"url":"https://1732studios.com/books/rilke/begegnung-in-der-kastanien-allee","lines":17},"previous":"https://1732studios.com/books/rilke/dame-auf-einem-balkon","next":"https://1732studios.com/books/rilke/die-schwestern","license":"Source text: public domain (Rainer Maria Rilke, died 1926; Neue Gedichte published 1907 and 1908), from Wikisource. English translation and notes: © 2026 1732 Studios, LLC. Narration: synthesized for this edition.","audioBase":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/","lines":[{"number":1,"label":"1","id":"begegnung-in-der-kastanien-allee-s1-l1","source":"Ihm ward des Eingangs grüne Dunkelheit","translation":"Around him the entrance's green darkness was","stanza":1,"audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/begegnung-in-der-kastanien-allee-s1-l1.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"Ihm ward … umgegeben","title":"An archaic preterite of werden","body":"ward is the old, literary preterite of werden, 'to become', where modern German uses wurde. With the past participle umgegeben it forms a passive: ihm ward ... umgegeben means 'around him there was wrapped'. The participle does not arrive until the end of the next line."},{"kind":"grammar","term":"des Eingangs","title":"A fronted genitive","body":"des Eingangs is the genitive of der Eingang, 'the entrance, the way in': 'of the entrance'. It modifies Dunkelheit, 'darkness': des Eingangs grüne Dunkelheit, 'the entrance's green darkness'. Plain German would instead say die grüne Dunkelheit des Eingangs."}],"words":[{"surface":"Ihm","lemma":"ihm","morphology":"pronoun, dative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on umgegeben","gloss":"around him"},{"surface":"ward","lemma":"werden","morphology":"auxiliary verb, past, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"was","note":"'ward' is the archaic preterite of 'werden' (modern 'wurde'), forming a passive with 'umgegeben' in the next line: 'was wrapped.'"},{"surface":"des","lemma":"der","morphology":"determiner, genitive, masculine, singular","role":"depends on Eingangs","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"Eingangs","lemma":"Eingang","morphology":"noun, genitive, masculine, singular","role":"depends on Dunkelheit","gloss":"entrance's"},{"surface":"grüne","lemma":"grün","morphology":"adjective, nominative, feminine, singular","role":"depends on Dunkelheit","gloss":"green"},{"surface":"Dunkelheit","lemma":"Dunkelheit","morphology":"noun, nominative, feminine, singular","role":"subject of ward","gloss":"darkness"}]},{"number":2,"label":"2","id":"begegnung-in-der-kastanien-allee-s1-l2","source":"kühl wie ein Seidenmantel umgegeben,","translation":"wrapped about him, cool as a cloak of silk,","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/begegnung-in-der-kastanien-allee-s1-l2.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"umgegeben","title":"A past participle completing a passive","body":"umgegeben is the past participle of umgeben, 'to surround, wrap around'. With ward from the line before, it completes the passive: 'was wrapped around him'. The simile kühl wie ein Seidenmantel, 'cool as a cloak of silk', likens the shade of the trees to a garment."}],"words":[{"surface":"kühl","lemma":"kühl","morphology":"adjective","role":"depends on umgegeben","gloss":"cool"},{"surface":"wie","lemma":"wie","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on Seidenmantel","gloss":"as"},{"surface":"ein","lemma":"ein","morphology":"determiner, nominative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on Seidenmantel","gloss":"a"},{"surface":"Seidenmantel","lemma":"Seidenmantel","morphology":"noun, nominative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on wie","gloss":"cloak of silk"},{"surface":"umgegeben","lemma":"umgeben","morphology":"verb, participle","role":"head of the phrase","gloss":"wrapped about"}]},{"number":3,"label":"3","id":"begegnung-in-der-kastanien-allee-s1-l3","source":"den er noch nahm und ordnete: als eben","translation":"which he still took up and arranged: just as,","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/begegnung-in-der-kastanien-allee-s1-l3.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"den er noch nahm","title":"A relative pronoun tracking a metaphor","body":"den is the accusative relative pronoun pointing back to Seidenmantel, 'silk cloak': 'which he took up and arranged'. The man handles the green shade like a coat settled on the shoulders, and als eben, 'just as', turns the sentence toward the encounter ahead."}],"words":[{"surface":"den","lemma":"der","morphology":"pronoun, accusative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on nahm","gloss":"which"},{"surface":"er","lemma":"er","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on nahm","gloss":"he"},{"surface":"noch","lemma":"noch","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on nahm","gloss":"still"},{"surface":"nahm","lemma":"nehmen","morphology":"verb, past, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"took up"},{"surface":"und","lemma":"und","morphology":"conjunction","role":"depends on nahm","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"ordnete","lemma":"ordnen","morphology":"verb, past, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"depends on und","gloss":"arranged"},{"surface":"als","lemma":"als","morphology":"subordinating conjunction","role":"depends on aufleuchtete","gloss":"just as","note":"Temporal 'als' ('when/just as'), not comparative 'as' — it introduces the clause completed by 'aufleuchtete' two lines later."},{"surface":"eben","lemma":"eben","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on als","gloss":"just"}]},{"number":4,"label":"4","id":"begegnung-in-der-kastanien-allee-s1-l4","source":"am andern transparenten Ende, weit,","translation":"at the far transparent end, far off,","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/begegnung-in-der-kastanien-allee-s1-l4.m4a","notes":[],"words":[{"surface":"am","lemma":"an","morphology":"preposition","role":"head of the phrase","gloss":"at"},{"surface":"andern","lemma":"anderer","morphology":"adjective, dative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on Ende","gloss":"other"},{"surface":"transparenten","lemma":"transparent","morphology":"adjective, dative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on Ende","gloss":"transparent"},{"surface":"Ende","lemma":"Ende","morphology":"noun, dative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on am","gloss":"end"},{"surface":"weit","lemma":"weit","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on Ende","gloss":"far off"}]},{"number":5,"label":"5","id":"begegnung-in-der-kastanien-allee-s2-l1","source":"aus grüner Sonne, wie aus grünen Scheiben,","translation":"out of green sun, as out of panes of green,","stanza":2,"audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/begegnung-in-der-kastanien-allee-s2-l1.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"die Scheiben","title":"Panes that filter the light","body":"die Scheibe, plural Scheiben, means a 'pane' of glass, a disc, a slice. wie aus grünen Scheiben, 'as out of green panes', turns the filtered sunlight into stained glass, the medium the approaching figure will seem to surface from."}],"words":[{"surface":"aus","lemma":"aus","morphology":"preposition","role":"head of the phrase","gloss":"out of"},{"surface":"grüner","lemma":"grün","morphology":"adjective, dative, feminine, singular","role":"depends on Sonne","gloss":"green"},{"surface":"Sonne","lemma":"Sonne","morphology":"noun, dative, feminine, singular","role":"depends on aus","gloss":"sun"},{"surface":"wie","lemma":"wie","morphology":"subordinating conjunction","role":"depends on aus","gloss":"as"},{"surface":"aus","lemma":"aus","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on wie","gloss":"out of"},{"surface":"grünen","lemma":"grün","morphology":"adjective, dative, feminine, plural","role":"depends on Scheiben","gloss":"green"},{"surface":"Scheiben","lemma":"Scheibe","morphology":"noun, dative, feminine, plural","role":"depends on aus","gloss":"panes"}]},{"number":6,"label":"6","id":"begegnung-in-der-kastanien-allee-s2-l2","source":"weiß eine einzelne Gestalt","translation":"white, a single figure","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/begegnung-in-der-kastanien-allee-s2-l2.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"die Gestalt","title":"A figure before any face","body":"die Gestalt is a 'figure, form, shape', a person seen as an outline before identity is known. eine einzelne Gestalt, 'a single figure', is nominative singular, feminine, and is the subject of aufleuchtete two lines later."}],"words":[{"surface":"weiß","lemma":"weiß","morphology":"adjective","role":"depends on Gestalt","gloss":"white","note":"'weiß' here is the adjective 'white,' not a form of 'wissen' (to know) — a common tagger confusion between the two homographs."},{"surface":"eine","lemma":"ein","morphology":"determiner, nominative, feminine, singular","role":"depends on Gestalt","gloss":"a"},{"surface":"einzelne","lemma":"einzeln","morphology":"adjective, nominative, feminine, singular","role":"depends on Gestalt","gloss":"single"},{"surface":"Gestalt","lemma":"Gestalt","morphology":"noun, nominative, feminine, singular","role":"subject of aufleuchtete","gloss":"figure"}]},{"number":7,"label":"7","id":"begegnung-in-der-kastanien-allee-s2-l3","source":"aufleuchtete, um lange fern zu bleiben","translation":"lit up, only to stay long far away","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/begegnung-in-der-kastanien-allee-s2-l3.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"aufleuchtete","title":"A separable verb for flashing bright","body":"aufleuchtete is the preterite of the separable verb aufleuchten, 'to light up, flash into brightness', built from leuchten, 'to shine', with the prefix auf-. It is the long delayed verb for eine einzelne Gestalt two lines back."}],"words":[{"surface":"aufleuchtete","lemma":"aufleuchten","morphology":"verb, past, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"lit up"},{"surface":"um","lemma":"um","morphology":"subordinating conjunction","role":"depends on bleiben","gloss":"to"},{"surface":"lange","lemma":"lange","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on bleiben","gloss":"long"},{"surface":"fern","lemma":"fern","morphology":"adjective","role":"depends on bleiben","gloss":"far away"},{"surface":"zu","lemma":"zu","morphology":"particle","role":"depends on bleiben","gloss":"to"},{"surface":"bleiben","lemma":"bleiben","morphology":"verb, infinitive","role":"depends on aufleuchtete","gloss":"stay"}]},{"number":8,"label":"8","id":"begegnung-in-der-kastanien-allee-s2-l4","source":"und schließlich, von dem Lichterniedertreiben","translation":"and at last, by the down-drift of the light","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/begegnung-in-der-kastanien-allee-s2-l4.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"das Lichterniedertreiben","title":"A Rilke coinage for falling light","body":"Rilke builds this noun from das Licht, 'light', nieder, 'down', and treiben, 'to drive, drift': the driving down of light. Like many of his compounds, it appears only this once and takes dative case after von."}],"words":[{"surface":"und","lemma":"und","morphology":"conjunction","role":"depends on überwallt","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"schließlich","lemma":"schließlich","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on überwallt","gloss":"finally"},{"surface":"von","lemma":"von","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on überwallt","gloss":"by"},{"surface":"dem","lemma":"der","morphology":"determiner, dative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on Lichterniedertreiben","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"Lichterniedertreiben","lemma":"Lichterniedertreiben","morphology":"noun, dative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on von","gloss":"downward drift of light"}]},{"number":9,"label":"9","id":"begegnung-in-der-kastanien-allee-s2-l5","source":"bei jedem Schritte überwallt,","translation":"flooded over at every step,","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/begegnung-in-der-kastanien-allee-s2-l5.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"überwallt","title":"To flood or surge over","body":"überwallt is the past participle of überwallen, 'to surge over, flood over, boil over', from wallen, 'to seethe, billow'. The light does not merely fall on the figure, it überwallt, washing over it at every step."}],"words":[{"surface":"bei","lemma":"bei","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on überwallt","gloss":"at"},{"surface":"jedem","lemma":"jeder","morphology":"determiner, dative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on Schritte","gloss":"every"},{"surface":"Schritte","lemma":"Schritt","morphology":"noun, dative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on bei","gloss":"step"},{"surface":"überwallt","lemma":"überwallen","morphology":"verb, participle","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"flooded over"}]},{"number":10,"label":"10","id":"begegnung-in-der-kastanien-allee-s3-l1","source":"ein helles Wechseln auf sich herzutragen,","translation":"to carry a bright flickering toward us on itself,","stanza":3,"audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/begegnung-in-der-kastanien-allee-s3-l1.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"ein helles Wechseln","title":"An infinitive turned into a noun","body":"wechseln means 'to change, to alternate'; capitalized as das Wechseln it becomes a noun, 'a changing, an alternating'. ein helles Wechseln is 'a bright shifting', the play of light flickering across the moving figure."},{"kind":"grammar","term":"herzutragen","title":"zu inserted inside a separable verb","body":"herzutragen is the zu-infinitive of hertragen, 'to carry hither, bring this way', the prefix her- marking motion toward the speaker. The zu slots between prefix and verb, her-zu-tragen, as separable verbs require."}],"words":[{"surface":"ein","lemma":"ein","morphology":"determiner, accusative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on Wechseln","gloss":"a"},{"surface":"helles","lemma":"hell","morphology":"adjective, accusative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on Wechseln","gloss":"bright"},{"surface":"Wechseln","lemma":"Wechseln","morphology":"noun, accusative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on herzutragen","gloss":"flickering","note":"'Wechseln' is the nominalized infinitive ('the changing/flickering'), used here as a noun."},{"surface":"auf","lemma":"auf","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on herzutragen","gloss":"on"},{"surface":"sich","lemma":"sich","morphology":"pronoun, accusative, singular, reflexive","role":"depends on auf","gloss":"itself"},{"surface":"herzutragen","lemma":"hertragen","morphology":"verb, infinitive","role":"head of the phrase","gloss":"to carry"}]},{"number":11,"label":"11","id":"begegnung-in-der-kastanien-allee-s3-l2","source":"das scheu im Blond nach hinten lief.","translation":"that shyly, in the blond, ran backward.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/begegnung-in-der-kastanien-allee-s3-l2.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"im Blond","title":"An adjective treated as a place","body":"blond is normally an adjective, 'fair, blond'; Rilke nouns it as das Blond, dative after im. im Blond ... lief means 'ran in the blond', with lief the past tense of laufen, 'to run'."}],"words":[{"surface":"das","lemma":"der","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on lief","gloss":"that"},{"surface":"scheu","lemma":"scheu","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on lief","gloss":"shyly"},{"surface":"im","lemma":"in","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on lief","gloss":"in the"},{"surface":"Blond","lemma":"Blond","morphology":"noun, dative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on im","gloss":"blond"},{"surface":"nach","lemma":"nach","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on lief","gloss":"toward"},{"surface":"hinten","lemma":"hinten","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on nach","gloss":"the back"},{"surface":"lief","lemma":"laufen","morphology":"verb, past, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"ran"}]},{"number":12,"label":"12","id":"begegnung-in-der-kastanien-allee-s3-l3","source":"Aber auf einmal war der Schatten tief,","translation":"But all at once the shadow was deep,","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/begegnung-in-der-kastanien-allee-s3-l3.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"auf einmal","title":"A fixed phrase for suddenly","body":"auf einmal is a fixed adverbial phrase meaning 'all at once, suddenly'. It combines the preposition auf with the adverb einmal, 'once', and functions here as a single adverbial unit modifying war."}],"words":[{"surface":"Aber","lemma":"aber","morphology":"conjunction","role":"depends on war","gloss":"But"},{"surface":"auf","lemma":"auf","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on war","gloss":"at"},{"surface":"einmal","lemma":"einmal","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on auf","gloss":"once"},{"surface":"war","lemma":"sein","morphology":"verb, past, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"was"},{"surface":"der","lemma":"der","morphology":"determiner, nominative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on Schatten","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"Schatten","lemma":"Schatten","morphology":"noun, nominative, masculine, singular","role":"subject of war","gloss":"shadow"},{"surface":"tief","lemma":"tief","morphology":"adjective","role":"depends on war","gloss":"deep"}]},{"number":13,"label":"13","id":"begegnung-in-der-kastanien-allee-s3-l4","source":"und nahe Augen lagen aufgeschlagen","translation":"and near eyes lay open,","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/begegnung-in-der-kastanien-allee-s3-l4.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"aufgeschlagen","title":"aufschlagen, said of open eyes","body":"aufgeschlagen is the past participle of aufschlagen, 'to open', used of eyes or a book, literally 'to strike open'. Augen lagen aufgeschlagen means 'eyes lay opened', the same verb used for opening a book to a page."}],"words":[{"surface":"und","lemma":"und","morphology":"conjunction","role":"depends on lagen","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"nahe","lemma":"nahe","morphology":"adjective","role":"depends on Augen","gloss":"near"},{"surface":"Augen","lemma":"Auge","morphology":"noun, nominative, neuter, plural","role":"subject of lagen","gloss":"eyes"},{"surface":"lagen","lemma":"liegen","morphology":"verb, past, indicative, third-person, plural","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"lay"},{"surface":"aufgeschlagen","lemma":"aufschlagen","morphology":"verb, participle","role":"depends on lagen","gloss":"open"}]},{"number":14,"label":"14","id":"begegnung-in-der-kastanien-allee-s4-l1","source":"in einem neuen deutlichen Gesicht,","translation":"in a new, distinct face,","stanza":4,"audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/begegnung-in-der-kastanien-allee-s4-l1.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"deutlich","title":"Distinct, plainly defined","body":"deutlich means 'clear, distinct, plainly legible'. After the figure has been only a blurred white Gestalt in the light, the face arrives neu, 'new', and deutlich, 'distinct', resolving for one instant into a particular, sharp face."}],"words":[{"surface":"in","lemma":"in","morphology":"preposition","role":"head of the phrase","gloss":"in"},{"surface":"einem","lemma":"ein","morphology":"determiner, dative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on Gesicht","gloss":"a"},{"surface":"neuen","lemma":"neu","morphology":"adjective, dative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on Gesicht","gloss":"new"},{"surface":"deutlichen","lemma":"deutlich","morphology":"adjective, dative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on Gesicht","gloss":"distinct"},{"surface":"Gesicht","lemma":"Gesicht","morphology":"noun, dative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on in","gloss":"face"}]},{"number":15,"label":"15","id":"begegnung-in-der-kastanien-allee-s4-l2","source":"das wie in einem Bildnis verweilte","translation":"which lingered as in a portrait","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/begegnung-in-der-kastanien-allee-s4-l2.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"das Bildnis","title":"A word for a painted likeness","body":"das Bildnis is a 'portrait, likeness, painted image', related to das Bild, 'picture'. das wie in einem Bildnis verweilte means 'which lingered as in a portrait'; verweilen means 'to linger, to tarry'."}],"words":[{"surface":"das","lemma":"der","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on verweilte","gloss":"which"},{"surface":"wie","lemma":"wie","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on in","gloss":"as"},{"surface":"in","lemma":"in","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on verweilte","gloss":"in"},{"surface":"einem","lemma":"ein","morphology":"determiner, dative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on Bildnis","gloss":"a"},{"surface":"Bildnis","lemma":"Bildnis","morphology":"noun, dative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on in","gloss":"portrait"},{"surface":"verweilte","lemma":"verweilen","morphology":"verb, past, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"lingered"}]},{"number":16,"label":"16","id":"begegnung-in-der-kastanien-allee-s4-l3","source":"in dem Moment, da man sich wieder teilte:","translation":"in the moment when the two again drew apart:","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/begegnung-in-der-kastanien-allee-s4-l3.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"da man sich … teilte","title":"da meaning when, not there","body":"Here da is the literary temporal conjunction 'when, as', not the everyday 'there' or 'because', introducing da man sich wieder teilte, 'when one parted again'. sich teilen is the reflexive 'to part, divide'; man stands for the two walkers together."}],"words":[{"surface":"in","lemma":"in","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on teilte","gloss":"in"},{"surface":"dem","lemma":"der","morphology":"determiner, dative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on Moment","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"Moment","lemma":"Moment","morphology":"noun, dative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on in","gloss":"moment"},{"surface":"da","lemma":"da","morphology":"subordinating conjunction","role":"depends on teilte","gloss":"when"},{"surface":"man","lemma":"man","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, singular","role":"depends on teilte","gloss":"they"},{"surface":"sich","lemma":"sich","morphology":"pronoun, accusative, singular, reflexive","role":"depends on teilte","gloss":"each other"},{"surface":"wieder","lemma":"wieder","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on teilte","gloss":"again"},{"surface":"teilte","lemma":"teilen","morphology":"verb, past, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"parted"}]},{"number":17,"label":"17","id":"begegnung-in-der-kastanien-allee-s4-l4","source":"erst war es immer, und dann war es nicht.","translation":"first it was forever, and then it was not.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/begegnung-in-der-kastanien-allee-s4-l4.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"erst … und dann","title":"First, and then, a paired contrast","body":"erst ... und dann pairs 'first ... and then', setting two moments against each other. erst war es immer means 'first it was forever'; dann war es nicht means 'then it was not'. immer means 'always, forever'; es, 'it', leaves what is lost unnamed."}],"words":[{"surface":"erst","lemma":"erst","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on war","gloss":"first"},{"surface":"war","lemma":"sein","morphology":"verb, past, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"was"},{"surface":"es","lemma":"es","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on war","gloss":"it"},{"surface":"immer","lemma":"immer","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on war","gloss":"forever"},{"surface":"und","lemma":"und","morphology":"conjunction","role":"depends on war","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"dann","lemma":"dann","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on war","gloss":"then"},{"surface":"war","lemma":"sein","morphology":"verb, past, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"depends on und","gloss":"was"},{"surface":"es","lemma":"es","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on war","gloss":"it"},{"surface":"nicht","lemma":"nicht","morphology":"particle","role":"depends on war","gloss":"not"}]}]}