{"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":"beguinage","title":{"source":"Béguinage","translated":"Béguinage"},"section":"New Poems","summary":null,"url":"https://1732studios.com/books/rilke/beguinage","lines":43},"previous":"https://1732studios.com/books/rilke/quai-du-rosaire","next":"https://1732studios.com/books/rilke/die-marienprozession","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":"beguinage-s1-l1","source":"Das hohe Tor scheint keine einzuhalten,","translation":"The high gate seems to keep no one inside,","stanza":1,"audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/beguinage-s1-l1.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"einzuhalten","title":"einhalten meaning to hold in","body":"einhalten is a separable verb; with zu the prefix wraps the stem as einzuhalten. It usually means 'to keep, observe' a rule, but here it carries its literal sense, 'to hold in, hold back'. scheint keine einzuhalten means 'seems to hold none of them in'."}],"words":[{"surface":"Das","lemma":"der","morphology":"determiner, nominative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on Tor","gloss":"The"},{"surface":"hohe","lemma":"hoch","morphology":"adjective, nominative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on Tor","gloss":"high"},{"surface":"Tor","lemma":"Tor","morphology":"noun, nominative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on scheint","gloss":"gate"},{"surface":"scheint","lemma":"scheinen","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"seems"},{"surface":"keine","lemma":"kein","morphology":"pronoun, accusative, plural","role":"depends on einzuhalten","gloss":"no one"},{"surface":"einzuhalten","lemma":"einhalten","morphology":"verb, infinitive","role":"depends on scheint","gloss":"keep in"}]},{"number":2,"label":"2","id":"beguinage-s1-l2","source":"die Brücke geht gleich gerne hin und her,","translation":"the bridge goes just as gladly there and back,","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/beguinage-s1-l2.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"hin und her","title":"A fixed pair for both directions","body":"hin marks motion away from the speaker, her marks motion toward. The fixed pair hin und her means 'to and fro, back and forth'. gleich gerne means 'just as gladly', describing how the bridge crosses in both directions."}],"words":[{"surface":"die","lemma":"der","morphology":"determiner, nominative, feminine, singular","role":"depends on Brücke","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"Brücke","lemma":"Brücke","morphology":"noun, nominative, feminine, singular","role":"depends on geht","gloss":"bridge"},{"surface":"geht","lemma":"gehen","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"goes"},{"surface":"gleich","lemma":"gleich","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on gerne","gloss":"just as"},{"surface":"gerne","lemma":"gerne","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on geht","gloss":"gladly"},{"surface":"hin","lemma":"hin","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on geht","gloss":"there"},{"surface":"und","lemma":"und","morphology":"conjunction","role":"depends on hin","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"her","lemma":"her","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on und","gloss":"back"}]},{"number":3,"label":"3","id":"beguinage-s1-l3","source":"und doch sind sicher alle in dem alten","translation":"and yet for certain all of them remain in the old","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/beguinage-s1-l3.m4a","notes":[],"words":[{"surface":"und","lemma":"und","morphology":"conjunction","role":"depends on sind","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"doch","lemma":"doch","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on sind","gloss":"yet"},{"surface":"sind","lemma":"sein","morphology":"auxiliary verb, present, indicative, third-person, plural","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"remain"},{"surface":"sicher","lemma":"sicher","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on sind","gloss":"for certain"},{"surface":"alle","lemma":"alle","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, plural","role":"depends on sind","gloss":"all"},{"surface":"in","lemma":"in","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on sind","gloss":"in"},{"surface":"dem","lemma":"der","morphology":"determiner, dative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on alten","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"alten","lemma":"alt","morphology":"adjective, dative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on in","gloss":"old"}]},{"number":4,"label":"4","id":"beguinage-s1-l4","source":"offenen Ulmenhof und gehn nicht mehr","translation":"open elm court, and go out no more","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/beguinage-s1-l4.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"Ulmenhof","title":"A compound noun for a courtyard","body":"Ulmenhof joins die Ulme, 'elm', and der Hof, 'court, courtyard', a compound German forms freely by stacking nouns. offener Ulmenhof names the open, elm-lined courtyard. It stands in the dative here, agreeing with offenen."}],"words":[{"surface":"offenen","lemma":"offen","morphology":"adjective, dative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on Ulmenhof","gloss":"open"},{"surface":"Ulmenhof","lemma":"Ulmenhof","morphology":"noun, dative, masculine, singular","role":"head of the phrase","gloss":"elm court"},{"surface":"und","lemma":"und","morphology":"conjunction","role":"depends on Ulmenhof","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"gehn","lemma":"gehn","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, plural","role":"depends on und","gloss":"go"},{"surface":"nicht","lemma":"nicht","morphology":"particle","role":"depends on gehn","gloss":"no"},{"surface":"mehr","lemma":"mehr","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on nicht","gloss":"more"}]},{"number":5,"label":"5","id":"beguinage-s1-l5","source":"aus ihren Häusern, als auf jenem Streifen","translation":"from their houses, except along that strip","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/beguinage-s1-l5.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"aus ihren Häusern","title":"aus plus the dative","body":"aus, 'out of, from', always takes the dative, which gives the plural Häuser its -n ending: aus ihren Häusern means 'from their houses'. The phrase depends on gehn from the line above, across the line break."}],"words":[{"surface":"aus","lemma":"aus","morphology":"preposition","role":"head of the phrase","gloss":"from"},{"surface":"ihren","lemma":"ihr","morphology":"determiner, dative, neuter, plural","role":"depends on Häusern","gloss":"their"},{"surface":"Häusern","lemma":"Haus","morphology":"noun, dative, neuter, plural","role":"depends on aus","gloss":"houses"},{"surface":"als","lemma":"als","morphology":"subordinating conjunction","role":"depends on auf","gloss":"except"},{"surface":"auf","lemma":"auf","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on aus","gloss":"along"},{"surface":"jenem","lemma":"jener","morphology":"determiner, dative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on Streifen","gloss":"that"},{"surface":"Streifen","lemma":"Streifen","morphology":"noun, dative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on auf","gloss":"strip"}]},{"number":6,"label":"6","id":"beguinage-s1-l6","source":"zur Kirche hin, um besser zu begreifen,","translation":"toward the church, the better to grasp","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/beguinage-s1-l6.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"um … zu begreifen","title":"um zu plus infinitive for purpose","body":"um plus zu plus an infinitive expresses purpose, 'in order to'. The infinitive begreifen, 'to grasp, comprehend', goes to the end of its clause. um besser zu begreifen means 'in order to understand better'."}],"words":[{"surface":"zur","lemma":"zu","morphology":"preposition","role":"head of the phrase","gloss":"to the"},{"surface":"Kirche","lemma":"Kirche","morphology":"noun, dative, feminine, singular","role":"depends on zur","gloss":"church"},{"surface":"hin","lemma":"hin","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on zur","gloss":"toward"},{"surface":"um","lemma":"um","morphology":"subordinating conjunction","role":"depends on begreifen","gloss":"to"},{"surface":"besser","lemma":"gut","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on begreifen","gloss":"better"},{"surface":"zu","lemma":"zu","morphology":"particle","role":"depends on begreifen","gloss":"to"},{"surface":"begreifen","lemma":"begreifen","morphology":"verb, infinitive","role":"depends on zur","gloss":"grasp"}]},{"number":7,"label":"7","id":"beguinage-s1-l7","source":"warum in ihnen so viel Liebe war.","translation":"why there was so much love within them.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/beguinage-s1-l7.m4a","notes":[],"words":[{"surface":"warum","lemma":"warum","morphology":"subordinating conjunction","role":"depends on war","gloss":"why"},{"surface":"in","lemma":"in","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on war","gloss":"within"},{"surface":"ihnen","lemma":"ihnen","morphology":"pronoun, dative, plural","role":"depends on in","gloss":"them"},{"surface":"so","lemma":"so","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on viel","gloss":"so"},{"surface":"viel","lemma":"viel","morphology":"determiner","role":"depends on Liebe","gloss":"much"},{"surface":"Liebe","lemma":"Liebe","morphology":"noun, nominative, feminine, singular","role":"depends on war","gloss":"love"},{"surface":"war","lemma":"sein","morphology":"auxiliary verb, past, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"was"}]},{"number":8,"label":"8","id":"beguinage-s2-l1","source":"Dort knieen sie, verdeckt mit reinem Leinen","translation":"There they kneel, veiled in clean linen,","stanza":2,"audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/beguinage-s2-l1.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"verdeckt mit reinem Leinen","title":"verdeckt with a dative of means","body":"verdeckt is the past participle of verdecken, 'to cover, conceal', used here as an adjective. mit reinem Leinen, 'with clean linen', is the instrumental dative; das Leinen is neuter, so reinem takes the -em ending."}],"words":[{"surface":"Dort","lemma":"dort","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on knieen","gloss":"There"},{"surface":"knieen","lemma":"knien","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, plural","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"kneel"},{"surface":"sie","lemma":"sie","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, plural","role":"depends on knieen","gloss":"they"},{"surface":"verdeckt","lemma":"verdecken","morphology":"verb, participle","role":"depends on knieen","gloss":"veiled"},{"surface":"mit","lemma":"mit","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on verdeckt","gloss":"in"},{"surface":"reinem","lemma":"rein","morphology":"adjective, dative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on Leinen","gloss":"clean"},{"surface":"Leinen","lemma":"Leinen","morphology":"noun, dative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on mit","gloss":"linen"}]},{"number":9,"label":"9","id":"beguinage-s2-l2","source":"so gleich, als wäre nur das Bild der einen","translation":"so alike, as though only the image of one","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/beguinage-s2-l2.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"als wäre","title":"An inverted verb marks it unreal","body":"als, 'as though', with an inverted verb introduces an unreal comparison and takes the subjunctive. wäre is the subjunctive form of sein, 'to be'. als wäre nur das Bild der einen means 'as though only the image of the one were'."}],"words":[{"surface":"so","lemma":"so","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on gleich","gloss":"so"},{"surface":"gleich","lemma":"gleich","morphology":"adverb","role":"head of the phrase","gloss":"alike"},{"surface":"als","lemma":"als","morphology":"subordinating conjunction","role":"depends on wäre","gloss":"as though"},{"surface":"wäre","lemma":"sein","morphology":"auxiliary verb, past, subjunctive, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"were"},{"surface":"nur","lemma":"nur","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on Bild","gloss":"only"},{"surface":"das","lemma":"der","morphology":"determiner, nominative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on Bild","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"Bild","lemma":"Bild","morphology":"noun, nominative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on wäre","gloss":"image"},{"surface":"der","lemma":"der","morphology":"determiner, genitive, feminine, singular","role":"depends on einen","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"einen","lemma":"eine","morphology":"pronoun, genitive, feminine, singular","role":"depends on Bild","gloss":"one"}]},{"number":10,"label":"10","id":"beguinage-s2-l3","source":"tausendmal im Choral, der tief und klar","translation":"a thousandfold in the chorale, which deep and clear","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/beguinage-s2-l3.m4a","notes":[],"words":[{"surface":"tausendmal","lemma":"tausendmal","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on im","gloss":"a thousandfold"},{"surface":"im","lemma":"in","morphology":"preposition","role":"head of the phrase","gloss":"in the"},{"surface":"Choral","lemma":"Choral","morphology":"noun, dative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on im","gloss":"chorale"},{"surface":"der","lemma":"der","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on wird","gloss":"which"},{"surface":"tief","lemma":"tief","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on wird","gloss":"deep"},{"surface":"und","lemma":"und","morphology":"conjunction","role":"depends on tief","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"klar","lemma":"klar","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on und","gloss":"clear"}]},{"number":11,"label":"11","id":"beguinage-s2-l4","source":"zu Spiegeln wird an den verteilten Pfeilern;","translation":"turns to mirrors on the scattered pillars;","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/beguinage-s2-l4.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"zu Spiegeln wird","title":"werden zu meaning to turn into","body":"werden, 'to become', combined with zu plus the dative means 'to turn into'. zu Spiegeln wird means 'becomes mirrors'. zu forces the dative, which gives the plural noun its -n ending: Spiegeln."}],"words":[{"surface":"zu","lemma":"zu","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on wird","gloss":"to"},{"surface":"Spiegeln","lemma":"Spiegel","morphology":"noun, dative, masculine, plural","role":"depends on zu","gloss":"mirrors"},{"surface":"wird","lemma":"werden","morphology":"auxiliary verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"turns"},{"surface":"an","lemma":"an","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on wird","gloss":"on"},{"surface":"den","lemma":"der","morphology":"determiner, dative, masculine, plural","role":"depends on Pfeilern","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"verteilten","lemma":"verteilt","morphology":"adjective, dative, masculine, plural","role":"depends on Pfeilern","gloss":"scattered"},{"surface":"Pfeilern","lemma":"Pfeiler","morphology":"noun, dative, masculine, plural","role":"depends on an","gloss":"pillars"}]},{"number":12,"label":"12","id":"beguinage-s2-l5","source":"und ihre Stimmen gehn den immer steilern","translation":"and their voices climb the ever steeper","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/beguinage-s2-l5.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"den immer steilern Gesang","title":"immer plus a comparative","body":"immer before a comparative adjective means 'ever, more and more': immer steiler means 'ever steeper'. steilern is steileren with its middle vowel elided for the meter, agreeing with the accusative noun Gesang on the next line."}],"words":[{"surface":"und","lemma":"und","morphology":"conjunction","role":"depends on gehn","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"ihre","lemma":"ihr","morphology":"determiner, nominative, feminine, plural","role":"depends on Stimmen","gloss":"their"},{"surface":"Stimmen","lemma":"Stimme","morphology":"noun, nominative, feminine, plural","role":"depends on gehn","gloss":"voices"},{"surface":"gehn","lemma":"gehen","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, plural","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"climb"},{"surface":"den","lemma":"der","morphology":"determiner, accusative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on Gesang","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"immer","lemma":"immer","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on steilern","gloss":"ever"},{"surface":"steilern","lemma":"steil","morphology":"adjective, accusative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on Gesang","gloss":"steeper","note":"comparative adjective agreeing with 'Gesang' in the next line, not a noun itself."}]},{"number":13,"label":"13","id":"beguinage-s2-l6","source":"Gesang hinan und werfen sich von dort,","translation":"song upward, and from there fling themselves,","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/beguinage-s2-l6.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"werfen sich","title":"The reflexive werfen sich","body":"sich werfen means 'to throw, fling oneself'. Its subject is ihre Stimmen, 'their voices', from the line above. werfen sich von dort means 'fling themselves from there', continuing into den Engeln zu two lines later."}],"words":[{"surface":"Gesang","lemma":"Gesang","morphology":"noun, accusative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on gehn","gloss":"song","note":"object of 'gehn' in the previous line: 'gehn den immer steilern Gesang hinan' = 'climb the ever steeper song upward'."},{"surface":"hinan","lemma":"hinan","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on Gesang","gloss":"upward"},{"surface":"und","lemma":"und","morphology":"conjunction","role":"depends on Gesang","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"werfen","lemma":"werfen","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, plural","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"fling"},{"surface":"sich","lemma":"sich","morphology":"pronoun, accusative, plural, reflexive","role":"depends on werfen","gloss":"themselves"},{"surface":"von","lemma":"von","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on werfen","gloss":"from"},{"surface":"dort","lemma":"dort","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on von","gloss":"there"}]},{"number":14,"label":"14","id":"beguinage-s2-l7","source":"wo es nicht weitergeht, vom letzten Wort,","translation":"where it goes no further, from the last word,","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/beguinage-s2-l7.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"weitergeht","title":"The impersonal es geht weiter","body":"weitergehen, 'to go on, carry on', is separable, but in a clause introduced by wo, 'where', it stays whole and moves to the end: wo es nicht weitergeht. The impersonal es geht nicht weiter means 'there is no going further'."}],"words":[{"surface":"wo","lemma":"wo","morphology":"subordinating conjunction","role":"depends on weitergeht","gloss":"where"},{"surface":"es","lemma":"es","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on weitergeht","gloss":"it"},{"surface":"nicht","lemma":"nicht","morphology":"particle","role":"depends on weitergeht","gloss":"no"},{"surface":"weitergeht","lemma":"weitergehen","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"goes further"},{"surface":"vom","lemma":"von","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on weitergeht","gloss":"from the"},{"surface":"letzten","lemma":"letzter","morphology":"adjective, dative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on Wort","gloss":"last"},{"surface":"Wort","lemma":"Wort","morphology":"noun, dative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on vom","gloss":"word"}]},{"number":15,"label":"15","id":"beguinage-s2-l8","source":"den Engeln zu, die sie nicht wiedergeben.","translation":"toward the angels, who do not give them back.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/beguinage-s2-l8.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"den Engeln zu","title":"Separable zuwerfen plus dative","body":"This zu completes werfen sich zu from two lines above, the separable verb zuwerfen, 'to throw toward'. Its target stands in the dative, den Engeln, 'to the angels'. wiedergeben, 'to give back', stays whole and final in this relative clause."}],"words":[{"surface":"den","lemma":"der","morphology":"determiner, dative, masculine, plural","role":"depends on Engeln","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"Engeln","lemma":"Engel","morphology":"noun, dative, masculine, plural","role":"head of the phrase","gloss":"angels"},{"surface":"zu","lemma":"zu","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on Engeln","gloss":"toward"},{"surface":"die","lemma":"der","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, masculine, plural","role":"subject of wiedergeben","gloss":"who","note":"relative pronoun referring back to 'Engeln' (the angels), not to a feminine singular noun."},{"surface":"sie","lemma":"sie","morphology":"pronoun, accusative, plural","role":"depends on wiedergeben","gloss":"them","note":"object pronoun ('them', the echoing voices/words), not the subject — matches translation 'who do not give them back'."},{"surface":"nicht","lemma":"nicht","morphology":"particle","role":"depends on wiedergeben","gloss":"not"},{"surface":"wiedergeben","lemma":"wiedergeben","morphology":"verb, infinitive","role":"depends on Engeln","gloss":"give back"}]},{"number":16,"label":"16","id":"beguinage-s3-l1","source":"Drum sind die unten, wenn sie sich erheben","translation":"And so those below, when they rise","stanza":3,"audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/beguinage-s3-l1.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"Drum","title":"A shortened form of darum","body":"drum is a colloquial, contracted form of darum, 'therefore, for that reason'. Placed first, it pushes the verb sind into second position: Drum sind die unten. sich erheben is the reflexive verb 'to rise, stand up'."}],"words":[{"surface":"Drum","lemma":"drum","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on sind","gloss":"and so"},{"surface":"sind","lemma":"sein","morphology":"auxiliary verb, present, indicative, third-person, plural","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"are"},{"surface":"die","lemma":"der","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, plural","role":"depends on sind","gloss":"those"},{"surface":"unten","lemma":"unten","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on sind","gloss":"below"},{"surface":"wenn","lemma":"wenn","morphology":"subordinating conjunction","role":"depends on erheben","gloss":"when"},{"surface":"sie","lemma":"sie","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, plural","role":"depends on erheben","gloss":"they"},{"surface":"sich","lemma":"sich","morphology":"pronoun, accusative, plural, reflexive","role":"depends on erheben","gloss":"themselves"},{"surface":"erheben","lemma":"erheben","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, plural","role":"depends on sind","gloss":"rise"}]},{"number":17,"label":"17","id":"beguinage-s3-l2","source":"und wenden, still. Drum reichen sie sich schweigend","translation":"and turn, are silent. And so they pass, in silence,","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/beguinage-s3-l2.m4a","notes":[],"words":[{"surface":"und","lemma":"und","morphology":"conjunction","role":"depends on erheben","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"wenden","lemma":"wenden","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, plural","role":"depends on und","gloss":"turn"},{"surface":"still","lemma":"still","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on wenden","gloss":"silent"},{"surface":"Drum","lemma":"drum","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on reichen","gloss":"and so"},{"surface":"reichen","lemma":"reichen","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, plural","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"pass"},{"surface":"sie","lemma":"sie","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, plural","role":"depends on reichen","gloss":"they"},{"surface":"sich","lemma":"sich","morphology":"pronoun, dative, plural, reflexive","role":"depends on reichen","gloss":"to each other"},{"surface":"schweigend","lemma":"schweigend","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on reichen","gloss":"in silence"}]},{"number":18,"label":"18","id":"beguinage-s3-l3","source":"mit einem Neigen, Zeigende zu zeigend","translation":"with a bow, the ones who show, showing to","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/beguinage-s3-l3.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"Zeigende … zeigend","title":"Two participles of zeigen","body":"Zeigende and zeigend both come from zeigen, 'to show'. Zeigende is the participle used as a noun, 'those who show'. Zeigend is the same participle used adverbially, describing how they act toward Empfangenden, 'those receiving'."}],"words":[{"surface":"mit","lemma":"mit","morphology":"preposition","role":"head of the phrase","gloss":"with"},{"surface":"einem","lemma":"ein","morphology":"determiner, dative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on Neigen","gloss":"a"},{"surface":"Neigen","lemma":"neigen","morphology":"noun, dative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on mit","gloss":"bow"},{"surface":"Zeigende","lemma":"zeigend","morphology":"noun, nominative, plural","role":"head of the phrase","gloss":"those who show"},{"surface":"zu","lemma":"zu","morphology":"particle","role":"depends on zeigend","gloss":"to"},{"surface":"zeigend","lemma":"zeigen","morphology":"verb, gerundive","role":"depends on Empfangenden","gloss":"show","note":"unusual, compressed syntax — 'Zeigende zu zeigend' reads as 'those-who-show, [there] to show to the Empfangenden' (a gerundive construction); parse offered with moderate confidence."}]},{"number":19,"label":"19","id":"beguinage-s3-l4","source":"Empfangenden, geweihtes Wasser, das","translation":"the receivers, holy water, which","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/beguinage-s3-l4.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"geweihtes Wasser","title":"Participle used as adjective","body":"Geweiht is the past participle of weihen, 'to consecrate'. Used adjectivally, geweihtes Wasser means 'consecrated water'. It is nominative neuter singular, agreeing with Wasser."}],"words":[{"surface":"Empfangenden","lemma":"empfangender","morphology":"noun, dative, plural","role":"depends on zeigend","gloss":"the receivers","note":"read as dative plural, object of 'zu zeigend' in the previous line ('to show to the receivers'); the fused, compressed syntax makes this uncertain."},{"surface":"geweihtes","lemma":"geweiht","morphology":"adjective, nominative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on Wasser","gloss":"holy"},{"surface":"Wasser","lemma":"Wasser","morphology":"noun, nominative, neuter, singular","role":"head of the phrase","gloss":"water"},{"surface":"das","lemma":"der","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, neuter, singular","role":"subject of macht","gloss":"which"}]},{"number":20,"label":"20","id":"beguinage-s3-l5","source":"die Stirnen kühl macht und die Munde blaß.","translation":"cools the brows and turns the mouths pale.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/beguinage-s3-l5.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"kühl macht … blaß","title":"Machen plus adjective result","body":"Machen combines with an uninflected adjective to mean 'to make something X'. Kühl macht means 'makes cool', and macht carries over in sense to blaß, 'pale'. The subject is das, referring back to Wasser."}],"words":[{"surface":"die","lemma":"der","morphology":"determiner, accusative, feminine, plural","role":"depends on Stirnen","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"Stirnen","lemma":"Stirne","morphology":"noun, accusative, feminine, plural","role":"depends on macht","gloss":"brows"},{"surface":"kühl","lemma":"kühl","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on macht","gloss":"cool"},{"surface":"macht","lemma":"machen","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"makes"},{"surface":"und","lemma":"und","morphology":"conjunction","role":"depends on macht","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"die","lemma":"der","morphology":"determiner, accusative, masculine, plural","role":"depends on Munde","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"Munde","lemma":"Mund","morphology":"noun, accusative, masculine, plural","role":"depends on macht","gloss":"mouths"},{"surface":"blaß","lemma":"blaß","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on macht","gloss":"pale"}]},{"number":21,"label":"21","id":"beguinage-s4-l1","source":"Und gehen dann, verhangen und verhalten,","translation":"And then they go, shrouded and held in,","stanza":4,"audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/beguinage-s4-l1.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"verhangen und verhalten","title":"Two participial adjectives paired","body":"Verhangen is the participle of verhängen, 'to drape, curtain over', meaning shrouded. Verhalten is the participle of sich verhalten, 'to hold oneself back', meaning restrained. Both depend on gehen, describing how the women move."}],"words":[{"surface":"Und","lemma":"und","morphology":"conjunction","role":"depends on gehen","gloss":"And"},{"surface":"gehen","lemma":"gehen","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, plural","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"go"},{"surface":"dann","lemma":"dann","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on gehen","gloss":"then"},{"surface":"verhangen","lemma":"verhangen","morphology":"adjective","role":"depends on gehen","gloss":"shrouded"},{"surface":"und","lemma":"und","morphology":"conjunction","role":"depends on verhangen","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"verhalten","lemma":"verhalten","morphology":"adjective","role":"depends on und","gloss":"held in"}]},{"number":22,"label":"22","id":"beguinage-s4-l2","source":"auf jenem Streifen wieder überquer–","translation":"across that strip once more—","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/beguinage-s4-l2.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"überquer","title":"An adverb meaning crosswise","body":"Überquer is an adverb meaning 'crosswise, straight across', related to the verb überqueren, 'to cross'. It depends on auf jenem Streifen, naming the direction of movement across that strip."}],"words":[{"surface":"auf","lemma":"auf","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on überquer","gloss":"across"},{"surface":"jenem","lemma":"jener","morphology":"determiner, dative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on Streifen","gloss":"that"},{"surface":"Streifen","lemma":"Streifen","morphology":"noun, dative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on auf","gloss":"strip"},{"surface":"wieder","lemma":"wieder","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on auf","gloss":"once more"},{"surface":"überquer–","lemma":"überquer","morphology":"adverb","role":"head of the phrase","gloss":"crosswise"}]},{"number":23,"label":"23","id":"beguinage-s4-l3","source":"die Jungen ruhig, ungewiß die Alten","translation":"the young ones calm, uncertain the old,","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/beguinage-s4-l3.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"die Jungen … die Alten","title":"Adjectives turned into nouns","body":"Jung, 'young', and alt, 'old', are capitalized and given an article to become nouns: die Jungen, 'the young ones', and die Alten, 'the old ones'. Both are nominative plural, understood as women."}],"words":[{"surface":"die","lemma":"der","morphology":"determiner, nominative, masculine, plural","role":"depends on Jungen","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"Jungen","lemma":"jung","morphology":"noun, nominative, masculine, plural","role":"head of the phrase","gloss":"young ones"},{"surface":"ruhig","lemma":"ruhig","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on Jungen","gloss":"calm"},{"surface":"ungewiß","lemma":"ungewiß","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on Alten","gloss":"uncertain"},{"surface":"die","lemma":"der","morphology":"determiner, nominative, plural","role":"depends on Alten","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"Alten","lemma":"alte","morphology":"noun, nominative, plural","role":"head of the phrase","gloss":"old ones"}]},{"number":24,"label":"24","id":"beguinage-s4-l4","source":"und eine Greisin, weilend, hinterher–","translation":"and one ancient woman, lingering, behind—","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/beguinage-s4-l4.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"weilend","title":"A verb meaning to linger","body":"Weilend is the present participle of weilen, a literary verb meaning 'to tarry, linger'. It functions as an adverb, depending on Greisin, describing how the old woman moves behind the others."}],"words":[{"surface":"und","lemma":"und","morphology":"conjunction","role":"head of the phrase","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"eine","lemma":"ein","morphology":"determiner, nominative, feminine, singular","role":"depends on Greisin","gloss":"one"},{"surface":"Greisin","lemma":"Greisin","morphology":"noun, nominative, feminine, singular","role":"depends on und","gloss":"ancient woman"},{"surface":"weilend","lemma":"weilend","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on Greisin","gloss":"lingering"},{"surface":"hinterher–","lemma":"hinterher","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on Greisin","gloss":"behind"}]},{"number":25,"label":"25","id":"beguinage-s4-l5","source":"zu ihren Häusern, die sie schnell verschweigen","translation":"to their houses, which quickly hush them away","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/beguinage-s4-l5.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"verschweigen","title":"A verb meaning to hush away","body":"Verschweigen means 'to keep silent about, to conceal'. It is an infinitive verb whose subject is die, referring to Häusern, and whose object is sie, 'them'. The houses quickly hush the women out of sight."}],"words":[{"surface":"zu","lemma":"zu","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on verschweigen","gloss":"to"},{"surface":"ihren","lemma":"ihr","morphology":"determiner, dative, neuter, plural","role":"depends on Häusern","gloss":"their"},{"surface":"Häusern","lemma":"Haus","morphology":"noun, dative, neuter, plural","role":"depends on zu","gloss":"houses"},{"surface":"die","lemma":"der","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, neuter, plural","role":"subject of verschweigen","gloss":"which"},{"surface":"sie","lemma":"sie","morphology":"pronoun, accusative, plural","role":"depends on verschweigen","gloss":"them"},{"surface":"schnell","lemma":"schnell","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on verschweigen","gloss":"quickly"},{"surface":"verschweigen","lemma":"verschweigen","morphology":"verb, infinitive","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"hush away"}]},{"number":26,"label":"26","id":"beguinage-s4-l6","source":"und die sich durch die Ulmen hin von Zeit","translation":"and which, through the elms, from time","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/beguinage-s4-l6.m4a","notes":[],"words":[{"surface":"und","lemma":"und","morphology":"conjunction","role":"head of the phrase","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"die","lemma":"der","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, plural","role":"depends on zeigen","gloss":"which","note":"second relative pronoun continuing the coordination with 'die' in the previous segment (both refer to 'Häusern')."},{"surface":"sich","lemma":"sich","morphology":"pronoun, accusative, plural, reflexive","role":"depends on zeigen","gloss":"themselves"},{"surface":"durch","lemma":"durch","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on zeigen","gloss":"through"},{"surface":"die","lemma":"der","morphology":"determiner, accusative, feminine, plural","role":"depends on Ulmen","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"Ulmen","lemma":"Ulme","morphology":"noun, accusative, feminine, plural","role":"depends on durch","gloss":"elms"},{"surface":"hin","lemma":"hin","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on durch","gloss":"along"},{"surface":"von","lemma":"von","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on zeigen","gloss":"from","note":"'von Zeit zu Zeit' is an idiom meaning 'from time to time'."},{"surface":"Zeit","lemma":"Zeit","morphology":"noun, dative, feminine, singular","role":"depends on von","gloss":"time"}]},{"number":27,"label":"27","id":"beguinage-s4-l7","source":"zu Zeit ein wenig reine Einsamkeit,","translation":"to time, a little pure solitude,","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/beguinage-s4-l7.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"von Zeit zu Zeit","title":"A fixed time idiom","body":"Von Zeit zu Zeit is a fixed phrase meaning 'from time to time'. It is split here across the line break, with zu Zeit landing on this line. It depends on the verb zeigen, describing how often solitude shows itself."}],"words":[{"surface":"zu","lemma":"zu","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on von","gloss":"to"},{"surface":"Zeit","lemma":"Zeit","morphology":"noun, dative, feminine, singular","role":"depends on zu","gloss":"time"},{"surface":"ein","lemma":"ein","morphology":"determiner","role":"depends on wenig","gloss":"a"},{"surface":"wenig","lemma":"wenig","morphology":"determiner","role":"depends on Einsamkeit","gloss":"little"},{"surface":"reine","lemma":"rein","morphology":"adjective, nominative, feminine, singular","role":"depends on Einsamkeit","gloss":"pure"},{"surface":"Einsamkeit","lemma":"Einsamkeit","morphology":"noun, accusative, feminine, singular","role":"depends on zeigen","gloss":"solitude"}]},{"number":28,"label":"28","id":"beguinage-s4-l8","source":"in einer kleinen Scheibe schimmernd, zeigen.","translation":"shimmering in a small pane, reveal.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/beguinage-s4-l8.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"Scheibe","title":"A word for windowpane","body":"Scheibe can mean 'disk' or 'slice', but here it names a 'pane of glass'. It is dative feminine singular after in, in the phrase 'shimmering in a small pane'. Schimmernd depends on zeigen, the sentence's main verb."}],"words":[{"surface":"in","lemma":"in","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on schimmernd","gloss":"in"},{"surface":"einer","lemma":"ein","morphology":"determiner, dative, feminine, singular","role":"depends on Scheibe","gloss":"a"},{"surface":"kleinen","lemma":"klein","morphology":"adjective, dative, feminine, singular","role":"depends on Scheibe","gloss":"small"},{"surface":"Scheibe","lemma":"Scheibe","morphology":"noun, dative, feminine, singular","role":"depends on in","gloss":"pane"},{"surface":"schimmernd","lemma":"schimmernd","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on zeigen","gloss":"shimmering"},{"surface":"zeigen","lemma":"zeigen","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, plural","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"reveal"}]},{"number":29,"label":"29","id":"beguinage-s5-l1","source":"II","translation":"II","stanza":5,"audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/beguinage-s5-l1.m4a","notes":[],"words":[{"surface":"II","lemma":"II","morphology":"numeral","role":"head of the phrase","gloss":"II"}]},{"number":30,"label":"30","id":"beguinage-s6-l1","source":"Was aber spiegelt mit den tausend Scheiben","translation":"But what does it mirror, with its thousand panes,","stanza":6,"audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/beguinage-s6-l1.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"spiegelt","title":"Used transitively here","body":"Spiegeln, 'to mirror, reflect', is the main verb of this sentence. Its subject, Kirchenfenster, is nominative and named on the next line. Aber, 'but', in second position, marks the turn to a new question."}],"words":[{"surface":"Was","lemma":"was","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on spiegelt","gloss":"what"},{"surface":"aber","lemma":"aber","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on spiegelt","gloss":"but"},{"surface":"spiegelt","lemma":"spiegeln","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"mirrors"},{"surface":"mit","lemma":"mit","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on spiegelt","gloss":"with"},{"surface":"den","lemma":"der","morphology":"determiner, dative, feminine, plural","role":"depends on Scheiben","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"tausend","lemma":"tausend","morphology":"numeral","role":"depends on Scheiben","gloss":"thousand"},{"surface":"Scheiben","lemma":"Scheibe","morphology":"noun, dative, feminine, plural","role":"depends on mit","gloss":"panes"}]},{"number":31,"label":"31","id":"beguinage-s6-l2","source":"das Kirchenfenster in den Hof hinein,","translation":"the church window, into the court within,","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/beguinage-s6-l2.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"in den Hof hinein","title":"Accusative marks motion inward","body":"In takes the accusative when it marks motion toward a goal, so der Hof becomes den Hof, 'into the court'. Hinein, 'within', reinforces the inward direction. Kirchenfenster is the nominative subject of spiegelt from the line above."}],"words":[{"surface":"das","lemma":"der","morphology":"determiner, nominative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on Kirchenfenster","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"Kirchenfenster","lemma":"Kirchenfenster","morphology":"noun, nominative, neuter, singular","role":"subject of spiegelt","gloss":"church window","note":"subject of 'spiegelt' (matches its own nominative case tag): 'was ... spiegelt ... das Kirchenfenster' = 'what does the church window mirror' — the church window is the one doing the mirroring, not the thing mirrored; the previous note called it a direct object, which contradicts both the nominative tag and the sense."},{"surface":"in","lemma":"in","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on Kirchenfenster","gloss":"into"},{"surface":"den","lemma":"der","morphology":"determiner, accusative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on Hof","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"Hof","lemma":"Hof","morphology":"noun, accusative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on in","gloss":"court"},{"surface":"hinein","lemma":"hinein","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on in","gloss":"within"}]},{"number":32,"label":"32","id":"beguinage-s6-l3","source":"darin sich Schweigen, Schein und Widerschein","translation":"in which silence, sheen and counter-sheen","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/beguinage-s6-l3.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"Schein und Widerschein","title":"A gleam and its counterpart","body":"Schein means 'shine, gleam' and Widerschein means 'reflection, reflected glow', built with the prefix wider-, 'back, counter'. Both are nominative singular nouns joined by und, coordinate with Schweigen, 'silence'."}],"words":[{"surface":"darin","lemma":"darin","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on Schweigen","gloss":"in which"},{"surface":"sich","lemma":"sich","morphology":"pronoun, accusative, plural, reflexive","role":"depends on darin","gloss":"themselves"},{"surface":"Schweigen","lemma":"Schweigen","morphology":"noun, nominative, neuter, singular","role":"head of the phrase","gloss":"silence"},{"surface":"Schein","lemma":"Schein","morphology":"noun, nominative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on Schweigen","gloss":"sheen"},{"surface":"und","lemma":"und","morphology":"conjunction","role":"depends on Schein","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"Widerschein","lemma":"Widerschein","morphology":"noun, nominative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on und","gloss":"counter-sheen"}]},{"number":33,"label":"33","id":"beguinage-s6-l4","source":"vermischen, trinken, trüben, übertreiben,","translation":"mingle, drink, dim, and overdo each other,","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/beguinage-s6-l4.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"vermischen, trinken, trüben, übertreiben","title":"Four verbs share one subject","body":"Vermischen, 'to mingle', trüben, 'to make turbid', and übertreiben, 'to overdo', are coordinate with trinken, 'to drink', all third-person plural present. They share the reflexive sich introduced earlier by darin sich, naming what happens inside the glass."}],"words":[{"surface":"vermischen","lemma":"vermischen","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, plural","role":"coordinate with trinken","gloss":"mingle"},{"surface":"trinken","lemma":"trinken","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, plural","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"drink"},{"surface":"trüben","lemma":"trüben","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, plural","role":"coordinate with trinken","gloss":"dim"},{"surface":"übertreiben","lemma":"übertreiben","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, plural","role":"coordinate with trinken","gloss":"overdo"}]},{"number":34,"label":"34","id":"beguinage-s6-l5","source":"phantastisch alternd wie ein alter Wein?","translation":"aging fantastically, like an old wine?","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/beguinage-s6-l5.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"phantastisch alternd","title":"Altern means to age","body":"Alternd is the present participle of altern, 'to age, grow old', describing the light in the window. Phantastisch, 'fantastically', modifies it as an adverb. Wie ein alter Wein means 'like an old wine', giving the comparison."}],"words":[{"surface":"phantastisch","lemma":"phantastisch","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on alternd","gloss":"fantastically"},{"surface":"alternd","lemma":"alternd","morphology":"verb, participle","role":"head of the phrase","gloss":"aging"},{"surface":"wie","lemma":"wie","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on alternd","gloss":"like"},{"surface":"ein","lemma":"ein","morphology":"determiner, nominative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on Wein","gloss":"an"},{"surface":"alter","lemma":"alt","morphology":"adjective, nominative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on Wein","gloss":"old"},{"surface":"Wein","lemma":"Wein","morphology":"noun, nominative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on wie","gloss":"wine"}]},{"number":35,"label":"35","id":"beguinage-s7-l1","source":"Dort legt sich, keiner weiß von welcher Seite,","translation":"There settles—no one knows from which side—","stanza":7,"audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/beguinage-s7-l1.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"legt sich","title":"A verb meaning to settle","body":"Sich legen means 'to lie down, settle, come to rest'. Legt is the finite verb, with sich its reflexive pronoun; the subject waits until the next line. Keiner, 'no one', is the subject of the parenthetical verb weiß, 'knows'."}],"words":[{"surface":"Dort","lemma":"dort","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on legt","gloss":"there"},{"surface":"legt","lemma":"legen","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"settles","note":"'sich legen' is a reflexive verb meaning 'to settle, to lie down.'"},{"surface":"sich","lemma":"sich","morphology":"pronoun, accusative, singular, reflexive","role":"depends on legt","gloss":"itself"},{"surface":"keiner","lemma":"keiner","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on weiß","gloss":"no one"},{"surface":"weiß","lemma":"wissen","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of parenthetical clause","gloss":"knows"},{"surface":"von","lemma":"von","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on weiß","gloss":"from"},{"surface":"welcher","lemma":"welcher","morphology":"adjective, dative, feminine, singular","role":"depends on Seite","gloss":"which"},{"surface":"Seite","lemma":"Seite","morphology":"noun, dative, feminine, singular","role":"depends on von","gloss":"side"}]},{"number":36,"label":"36","id":"beguinage-s7-l2","source":"Außen auf Inneres und Ewigkeit","translation":"outerness upon innerness, and eternity","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/beguinage-s7-l2.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"Außen auf Inneres","title":"Adverbs turned into nouns","body":"Außen, 'outside', and Innere, 'inside', are adverbs made into neuter nouns, das Außen and das Innere. Auf takes the accusative here, Inneres, marking the settling named by legt. Ewigkeit, 'eternity', is coordinate with Inneres."}],"words":[{"surface":"Außen","lemma":"Außen","morphology":"noun, nominative, neuter, singular","role":"subject of legt","gloss":"outerness"},{"surface":"auf","lemma":"auf","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on legt","gloss":"upon"},{"surface":"Inneres","lemma":"Innere","morphology":"noun, accusative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on auf","gloss":"innerness"},{"surface":"und","lemma":"und","morphology":"conjunction","role":"depends on Inneres","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"Ewigkeit","lemma":"Ewigkeit","morphology":"noun, accusative, feminine, singular","role":"depends on und","gloss":"eternity"}]},{"number":37,"label":"37","id":"beguinage-s7-l3","source":"auf Immer-Hingehn, Weite über Weite,","translation":"upon ever-passing-on, expanse over expanse,","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/beguinage-s7-l3.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"Immer-Hingehn","title":"A hyphenated coined noun","body":"Rilke joins immer, 'ever, always', to Hingehn, a noun from hingehen, 'to go on, pass away', coining Immer-Hingehn, 'ever-passing-on'. It is accusative neuter singular, depending on auf, parallel to Weite über Weite, 'expanse over expanse'."}],"words":[{"surface":"auf","lemma":"auf","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on legt","gloss":"upon"},{"surface":"Immer-Hingehn","lemma":"Immer-Hingehn","morphology":"noun, accusative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on auf","gloss":"ever-passing-on"},{"surface":"Weite","lemma":"Weite","morphology":"noun, accusative, feminine, singular","role":"depends on auf","gloss":"expanse"},{"surface":"über","lemma":"über","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on Weite","gloss":"over"},{"surface":"Weite","lemma":"Weite","morphology":"noun, accusative, feminine, singular","role":"depends on über","gloss":"expanse"}]},{"number":38,"label":"38","id":"beguinage-s7-l4","source":"erblindend, finster, unbenutzt, verbleit.","translation":"going blind, dark, unused, leaded over.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/beguinage-s7-l4.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"erblindend … verbleit","title":"Two participles closing the line","body":"Erblindend is the present participle of erblinden, 'to go blind', with the prefix er- marking entry into a state. Verbleit is the past participle of verbleien, 'to seal with lead'. Both describe the window, following finster, 'dark', and unbenutzt, 'unused'."}],"words":[{"surface":"erblindend","lemma":"erblindend","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on verbleit","gloss":"going blind"},{"surface":"finster","lemma":"finster","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on erblindend","gloss":"dark"},{"surface":"unbenutzt","lemma":"unbenutzt","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on finster","gloss":"unused"},{"surface":"verbleit","lemma":"verbleien","morphology":"verb, participle","role":"head of the phrase","gloss":"leaded over"}]},{"number":39,"label":"39","id":"beguinage-s7-l5","source":"Dort bleibt, unter dem schwankenden Dekor","translation":"There remains, beneath the wavering décor","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/beguinage-s7-l5.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"unter dem schwankenden Dekor","title":"A preposition taking the dative","body":"Unter, 'under, beneath', takes the dative for a fixed position, so dem schwankenden Dekor is dative neuter singular. Schwankend is the present participle of schwanken, 'to sway, waver'. The phrase depends on bleibt, 'remains', the main verb."}],"words":[{"surface":"Dort","lemma":"dort","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on bleibt","gloss":"there"},{"surface":"bleibt","lemma":"bleiben","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"remains"},{"surface":"unter","lemma":"unter","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on bleibt","gloss":"beneath"},{"surface":"dem","lemma":"der","morphology":"determiner, dative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on Dekor","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"schwankenden","lemma":"schwankend","morphology":"adjective, dative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on Dekor","gloss":"wavering"},{"surface":"Dekor","lemma":"Dekor","morphology":"noun, dative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on unter","gloss":"décor"}]},{"number":40,"label":"40","id":"beguinage-s7-l6","source":"des Sommertags, das Graue alter Winter:","translation":"of the summer day, the grey of old winters:","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/beguinage-s7-l6.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"das Graue alter Winter","title":"A nominalized adjective plus genitive","body":"Das Graue nominalizes the adjective grau, 'grey', giving 'the grey'. It is the nominative subject of bleibt from two lines above. Alter Winter is genitive plural, 'of old winters', using the strong -er ending since no article precedes it."}],"words":[{"surface":"des","lemma":"der","morphology":"determiner, genitive, masculine, singular","role":"depends on Sommertags","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"Sommertags","lemma":"Sommertag","morphology":"noun, genitive, masculine, singular","role":"depends on Dekor","gloss":"summer day"},{"surface":"das","lemma":"der","morphology":"determiner, nominative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on Graue","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"Graue","lemma":"Graue","morphology":"noun, nominative, neuter, singular","role":"subject of bleibt","gloss":"the grey"},{"surface":"alter","lemma":"alt","morphology":"adjective, genitive, masculine, plural","role":"depends on Winter","gloss":"old"},{"surface":"Winter","lemma":"Winter","morphology":"noun, genitive, masculine, plural","role":"depends on Graue","gloss":"winters"}]},{"number":41,"label":"41","id":"beguinage-s7-l7","source":"als stünde regungslos ein sanftgesinnter","translation":"as though there stood, motionless, a gentle-minded,","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/beguinage-s7-l7.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"als stünde","title":"An unreal comparison in the subjunctive","body":"Als followed by an inverted subjunctive verb introduces an unreal comparison, meaning 'as though'. Stünde is the subjunctive of stehen, 'to stand'. Regungslos, 'motionless', and sanftgesinnter, 'gentle-minded', both depend on Wartender, named on the next line."}],"words":[{"surface":"als","lemma":"als","morphology":"subordinating conjunction","role":"depends on stünde","gloss":"as though"},{"surface":"stünde","lemma":"stehen","morphology":"verb, past, subjunctive, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"stood"},{"surface":"regungslos","lemma":"regungslos","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on stünde","gloss":"motionless"},{"surface":"ein","lemma":"ein","morphology":"determiner, nominative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on Wartender","gloss":"a"},{"surface":"sanftgesinnter","lemma":"sanftgesinnt","morphology":"adjective, nominative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on Wartender","gloss":"gentle-minded"}]},{"number":42,"label":"42","id":"beguinage-s7-l8","source":"langmütig lange Wartender dahinter","translation":"long-suffering, long-waiting one behind it,","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/beguinage-s7-l8.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"ein … Wartender","title":"A participle naming a person","body":"Wartender is the present participle of warten, 'to wait', used as a noun for a person, 'one who waits'. It is nominative masculine singular, the subject of stünde. Langmütig, 'long-suffering', and lange, 'long', both describe it."}],"words":[{"surface":"langmütig","lemma":"langmütig","morphology":"adjective, nominative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on Wartender","gloss":"long-suffering"},{"surface":"lange","lemma":"lange","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on Wartender","gloss":"long"},{"surface":"Wartender","lemma":"Wartender","morphology":"noun, nominative, masculine, singular","role":"subject of stünde","gloss":"waiting one"},{"surface":"dahinter","lemma":"dahinter","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on Wartender","gloss":"behind it"}]},{"number":43,"label":"43","id":"beguinage-s7-l9","source":"und eine weinend Wartende davor.","translation":"and a weeping waiting woman before it.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/beguinage-s7-l9.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"davor","title":"An adverb answering dahinter","body":"Davor means 'before it, in front of it', balancing dahinter, 'behind it', from two lines above. Wartende is the feminine form of the same participle noun, 'a waiting woman'. Weinend, 'weeping', depends on Wartende, describing her."}],"words":[{"surface":"und","lemma":"und","morphology":"conjunction","role":"depends on Wartende","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"eine","lemma":"ein","morphology":"determiner, nominative, feminine, singular","role":"depends on Wartende","gloss":"a"},{"surface":"weinend","lemma":"weinend","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on Wartende","gloss":"weeping"},{"surface":"Wartende","lemma":"Wartende","morphology":"noun, nominative, feminine, singular","role":"coordinate with Wartender","gloss":"waiting woman"},{"surface":"davor","lemma":"davor","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on Wartende","gloss":"before it"}]}]}