{"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":"magnifikat","title":{"source":"Magnifikat","translated":"Magnificat"},"section":"New Poems: The Other Part","summary":null,"url":"https://1732studios.com/books/rilke/magnifikat","lines":17},"previous":"https://1732studios.com/books/rilke/der-auferstandene","next":"https://1732studios.com/books/rilke/adam","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":"magnifikat-s1-l1","source":"Sie kam den Hang herauf, schon schwer, fast ohne","translation":"She came up the slope, already heavy, almost past","stanza":1,"audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/magnifikat-s1-l1.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"schwer","title":"Heavy meaning with child","body":"Schwer means 'heavy', but of a pregnant woman it is the ordinary German way of saying 'far along, heavily pregnant'. Rilke uses only this plain adjective, without the word 'pregnant' itself."},{"kind":"grammar","term":"den Hang herauf","title":"Accusative of path","body":"Der Hang, 'the slope', takes the accusative den Hang because it names the stretch of ground covered by motion, not a fixed place. Herauf, 'up toward here', follows and completes the direction."}],"words":[{"surface":"Sie","lemma":"sie","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, feminine, singular","role":"depends on kam","gloss":"She"},{"surface":"kam","lemma":"kommen","morphology":"verb, past, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"came"},{"surface":"den","lemma":"der","morphology":"determiner, accusative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on Hang","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"Hang","lemma":"Hang","morphology":"noun, accusative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on herauf","gloss":"slope"},{"surface":"herauf","lemma":"herauf","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on kam","gloss":"up"},{"surface":"schon","lemma":"schon","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on schwer","gloss":"already"},{"surface":"schwer","lemma":"schwer","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on kam","gloss":"heavy"},{"surface":"fast","lemma":"fast","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on ohne","gloss":"almost"},{"surface":"ohne","lemma":"ohne","morphology":"subordinating conjunction","role":"depends on kam","gloss":"without"}]},{"number":2,"label":"2","id":"magnifikat-s1-l2","source":"an Trost zu glauben, Hoffnung oder Rat;","translation":"believing in comfort, hope, or counsel;","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/magnifikat-s1-l2.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"an … glauben","title":"Believing in with the accusative","body":"'To believe in something' in German is an etwas glauben, with an governing the accusative: an Trost, 'in comfort'. The phrase continues fast ohne ... zu glauben from the line before, an ohne ... zu plus infinitive construction split across the line break."}],"words":[{"surface":"an","lemma":"an","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on glauben","gloss":"in"},{"surface":"Trost","lemma":"Trost","morphology":"noun, accusative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on an","gloss":"comfort"},{"surface":"zu","lemma":"zu","morphology":"particle","role":"depends on glauben","gloss":"to"},{"surface":"glauben","lemma":"glauben","morphology":"verb, infinitive","role":"depends on ohne","gloss":"believing"},{"surface":"Hoffnung","lemma":"Hoffnung","morphology":"noun, accusative, feminine, singular","role":"depends on an","gloss":"hope"},{"surface":"oder","lemma":"oder","morphology":"conjunction","role":"depends on Hoffnung","gloss":"or"},{"surface":"Rat","lemma":"Rat","morphology":"noun, accusative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on oder","gloss":"counsel"}]},{"number":3,"label":"3","id":"magnifikat-s1-l3","source":"doch da die hohe tragende Matrone","translation":"yet when the tall, child-bearing matron","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/magnifikat-s1-l3.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"doch da","title":"Da meaning when","body":"Here da is the temporal conjunction 'when, at the moment that', not the adverb 'there'. It opens a subordinate clause, sending the verb entgegentrat to the end of the next line. Doch means 'yet, but.'"},{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"tragende","title":"A participle for bearing a child","body":"Tragend is the present participle of tragen, 'to carry, bear'. Of a woman it means 'with child, pregnant'. Die hohe tragende Matrone describes Elizabeth, herself far along."}],"words":[{"surface":"doch","lemma":"doch","morphology":"conjunction","role":"depends on entgegentrat","gloss":"yet"},{"surface":"da","lemma":"da","morphology":"subordinating conjunction","role":"depends on entgegentrat","gloss":"when"},{"surface":"die","lemma":"der","morphology":"determiner, nominative, feminine, singular","role":"depends on Matrone","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"hohe","lemma":"hoch","morphology":"adjective, nominative, feminine, singular","role":"depends on Matrone","gloss":"tall"},{"surface":"tragende","lemma":"tragend","morphology":"adjective, nominative, feminine, singular","role":"depends on Matrone","gloss":"child-bearing"},{"surface":"Matrone","lemma":"Matrone","morphology":"noun, nominative, feminine, singular","role":"subject of entgegentrat","gloss":"matron"}]},{"number":4,"label":"4","id":"magnifikat-s1-l4","source":"ihr ernst und stolz entgegentrat","translation":"stepped grave and proud to meet her","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/magnifikat-s1-l4.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"entgegentrat","title":"A separable verb","body":"Entgegentreten, 'to step toward, confront, meet', is separable: entgegen plus treten. The dative ihr, 'to her', names who is stepped toward. Because the clause is subordinate, opened by da, the verb stays whole at the clause's end."}],"words":[{"surface":"ihr","lemma":"ihr","morphology":"pronoun, dative, feminine, singular","role":"depends on entgegentrat","gloss":"her"},{"surface":"ernst","lemma":"ernst","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on entgegentrat","gloss":"grave"},{"surface":"und","lemma":"und","morphology":"conjunction","role":"depends on ernst","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"stolz","lemma":"stolz","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on und","gloss":"proud"},{"surface":"entgegentrat","lemma":"entgegentreten","morphology":"verb, past, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"stepped to meet"}]},{"number":5,"label":"5","id":"magnifikat-s2-l1","source":"und alles wußte ohne ihr Vertrauen,","translation":"and knew it all without her telling,","stanza":2,"audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/magnifikat-s2-l1.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"wußte","title":"Old spelling of 'wusste'","body":"Wußte is the simple past of wissen, 'to know'. Rilke writes it with ß, the pre-1996 spelling; after a short vowel modern German writes wusste. The text keeps his original spelling."},{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"ihr Vertrauen","title":"A noun for confiding","body":"Das Vertrauen is 'trust'; 'to confide in someone' is sich jemandem anvertrauen. Ohne ihr Vertrauen means 'without her confiding it, without being told'."}],"words":[{"surface":"und","lemma":"und","morphology":"conjunction","role":"depends on wußte","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"alles","lemma":"alle","morphology":"pronoun, accusative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on wußte","gloss":"everything"},{"surface":"wußte","lemma":"wissen","morphology":"verb, past, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"knew"},{"surface":"ohne","lemma":"ohne","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on wußte","gloss":"without"},{"surface":"ihr","lemma":"ihr","morphology":"determiner, accusative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on Vertrauen","gloss":"her"},{"surface":"Vertrauen","lemma":"Vertrauen","morphology":"noun, accusative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on ohne","gloss":"telling","note":"Here 'Vertrauen' means her confiding/telling it, not just 'trust'."}]},{"number":6,"label":"6","id":"magnifikat-s2-l2","source":"da war sie plötzlich an ihr ausgeruht;","translation":"she was at once at rest on her;","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/magnifikat-s2-l2.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"ausgeruht","title":"A participle for a state reached","body":"Ausgeruht comes from the separable verb sich ausruhen, 'to rest, recover'. War ... ausgeruht reads as a state reached, 'had come to rest', rather than a simple past action. An ihr means 'on, against her.'"}],"words":[{"surface":"da","lemma":"da","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on war","gloss":"then"},{"surface":"war","lemma":"sein","morphology":"auxiliary verb, past, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"was"},{"surface":"sie","lemma":"sie","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, feminine, singular","role":"depends on war","gloss":"she"},{"surface":"plötzlich","lemma":"plötzlich","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on war","gloss":"at once"},{"surface":"an","lemma":"an","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on ausgeruht","gloss":"on"},{"surface":"ihr","lemma":"ihr","morphology":"pronoun, dative, feminine, singular","role":"depends on an","gloss":"her"},{"surface":"ausgeruht","lemma":"ausruhen","morphology":"verb, past participle","role":"depends on war","gloss":"at rest"}]},{"number":7,"label":"7","id":"magnifikat-s2-l3","source":"vorsichtig hielten sich die vollen Frauen,","translation":"warily the full women held each other,","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/magnifikat-s2-l3.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"die vollen Frauen","title":"Full meaning late in pregnancy","body":"Voll means 'full'. Of these two pregnant women it carries the rounded fullness of late pregnancy: 'the full women'. Sich halten here is reciprocal, 'held one another.'"}],"words":[{"surface":"vorsichtig","lemma":"vorsichtig","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on hielten","gloss":"warily"},{"surface":"hielten","lemma":"halten","morphology":"verb, past, indicative, third-person, plural","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"held"},{"surface":"sich","lemma":"sich","morphology":"pronoun, accusative, plural, reflexive","role":"depends on hielten","gloss":"each other"},{"surface":"die","lemma":"der","morphology":"determiner, nominative, feminine, plural","role":"depends on Frauen","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"vollen","lemma":"voll","morphology":"adjective, nominative, feminine, plural","role":"depends on Frauen","gloss":"full"},{"surface":"Frauen","lemma":"Frau","morphology":"noun, nominative, feminine, plural","role":"depends on hielten","gloss":"women"}]},{"number":8,"label":"8","id":"magnifikat-s2-l4","source":"bis daß die junge sprach: Mir ist zumut,","translation":"until the young one spoke: I feel within me,","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/magnifikat-s2-l4.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"bis daß","title":"An older form of until","body":"Bis daß, 'until', is a fuller, older form of plain bis; daß is the pre-1996 spelling of dass. It introduces a clause that sends its verb, sprach, 'spoke', to the end."},{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"mir ist zumut","title":"An impersonal idiom of feeling","body":"The idiom mir ist (so) zumute means 'I feel a certain way inside'. Rilke uses the shorter form zumut. It is impersonal, literally 'to me it is in the mood', and opens the song that follows."}],"words":[{"surface":"bis","lemma":"bis","morphology":"subordinating conjunction","role":"depends on sprach","gloss":"until"},{"surface":"daß","lemma":"daß","morphology":"subordinating conjunction","role":"depends on sprach","gloss":"that","note":"'bis daß' is an archaic doubled form of 'bis' (until)."},{"surface":"die","lemma":"der","morphology":"determiner, nominative, feminine, singular","role":"depends on junge","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"junge","lemma":"jung","morphology":"adjective, nominative, feminine, singular","role":"subject of sprach","gloss":"young one","note":"Substantivized adjective: 'the young one' (Elizabeth)."},{"surface":"sprach","lemma":"sprechen","morphology":"verb, past, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"spoke"},{"surface":"Mir","lemma":"mir","morphology":"pronoun, dative, singular","role":"depends on ist","gloss":"me"},{"surface":"ist","lemma":"sein","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"is"},{"surface":"zumut","lemma":"zumute","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on ist","gloss":"feeling","note":"'mir ist zumut(e)' is an idiom: 'I feel...' (completed in the next line)."}]},{"number":9,"label":"9","id":"magnifikat-s3-l1","source":"als wär ich, Liebe, von nun an für immer.","translation":"as if I were, dear one, from now on forever.","stanza":3,"audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/magnifikat-s3-l1.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"als wär ich","title":"Unreal comparison","body":"Als plus the subjunctive (Konjunktiv II) sets up an unreal comparison, 'as though'. Wär is the contracted subjunctive of sein, full form wäre. After als the verb comes first: als wär ich, 'as though I were.'"},{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"Liebe","title":"As a term of address","body":"Die Liebe means 'love', but set off in commas and addressed to the matron, it is a term of address: 'dear one, love.' It marks the words as spoken intimately to Elizabeth."}],"words":[{"surface":"als","lemma":"als","morphology":"subordinating conjunction","role":"depends on wär","gloss":"as if"},{"surface":"wär","lemma":"sein","morphology":"verb, past subjunctive, first-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"were"},{"surface":"ich","lemma":"ich","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, feminine, singular","role":"depends on wär","gloss":"I","note":"'ich' is spoken by 'die junge' (the young woman, i.e. Mary) two lines earlier — the speaker is female, so the pronoun should carry feminine gender like every other 3rd-person reference to her in this poem (Sie, sie, ihr), not masculine."},{"surface":"Liebe","lemma":"Liebe","morphology":"noun, nominative, feminine, singular","role":"vocative address","gloss":"dear one","note":"Vocative address to Elizabeth ('dear one'), not a grammatical object."},{"surface":"von","lemma":"von","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on wär","gloss":"from"},{"surface":"nun","lemma":"nun","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on von","gloss":"now"},{"surface":"an","lemma":"an","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on von","gloss":"on"},{"surface":"für","lemma":"für","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on wär","gloss":"for"},{"surface":"immer","lemma":"immer","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on für","gloss":"ever"}]},{"number":10,"label":"10","id":"magnifikat-s3-l2","source":"Gott schüttet in der Reichen Eitelkeit","translation":"God pours into the vanity of the rich","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/magnifikat-s3-l2.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"der Reichen","title":"Genitive of an adjectival noun","body":"Die Reichen, 'the rich', is an adjective used as a noun; its genitive plural is der Reichen, 'of the rich'. In der Reichen Eitelkeit means 'into the vanity of the rich.'"}],"words":[{"surface":"Gott","lemma":"Gott","morphology":"noun, nominative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on schüttet","gloss":"God"},{"surface":"schüttet","lemma":"schütten","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"pours"},{"surface":"in","lemma":"in","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on schüttet","gloss":"into"},{"surface":"der","lemma":"der","morphology":"determiner, genitive, plural","role":"depends on Reichen","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"Reichen","lemma":"reich","morphology":"adjective, genitive, plural","role":"depends on Eitelkeit","gloss":"rich"},{"surface":"Eitelkeit","lemma":"Eitelkeit","morphology":"noun, accusative, feminine, singular","role":"depends on in","gloss":"vanity"}]},{"number":11,"label":"11","id":"magnifikat-s3-l3","source":"fast ohne hinzusehen ihren Schimmer;","translation":"their glitter almost without a glance;","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/magnifikat-s3-l3.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"hinzusehen","title":"A separable verb with 'zu'","body":"Hinsehen, 'to look toward, glance at', is separable, so the infinitival zu sits inside: hinzusehen. Ohne ... zu plus infinitive means 'without doing something': fast ohne hinzusehen, 'scarcely with a glance.'"}],"words":[{"surface":"fast","lemma":"fast","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on ohne","gloss":"almost"},{"surface":"ohne","lemma":"ohne","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on hinzusehen","gloss":"without"},{"surface":"hinzusehen","lemma":"hinsehen","morphology":"verb, infinitive","role":"depends on ohne","gloss":"looking"},{"surface":"ihren","lemma":"ihr","morphology":"determiner, accusative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on Schimmer","gloss":"their"},{"surface":"Schimmer","lemma":"Schimmer","morphology":"noun, accusative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on schüttet","gloss":"glitter"}]},{"number":12,"label":"12","id":"magnifikat-s3-l4","source":"doch sorgsam sucht er sich ein Frauenzimmer","translation":"yet carefully he seeks himself a woman","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/magnifikat-s3-l4.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"ein Frauenzimmer","title":"An old word for a woman","body":"Historically das Frauenzimmer was a plain or respectful word for a woman; Rilke uses this older sense, not its modern dismissive one. Sucht er sich, 'seeks for himself', uses a dative reflexive sich."}],"words":[{"surface":"doch","lemma":"doch","morphology":"conjunction","role":"depends on sucht","gloss":"yet"},{"surface":"sorgsam","lemma":"sorgsam","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on sucht","gloss":"carefully"},{"surface":"sucht","lemma":"suchen","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"seeks"},{"surface":"er","lemma":"er","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on sucht","gloss":"he"},{"surface":"sich","lemma":"sich","morphology":"pronoun, dative, singular, reflexive","role":"depends on sucht","gloss":"himself"},{"surface":"ein","lemma":"ein","morphology":"determiner, accusative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on Frauenzimmer","gloss":"a"},{"surface":"Frauenzimmer","lemma":"Frauenzimmer","morphology":"noun, accusative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on sucht","gloss":"woman","note":"Archaic/dialectal word for 'woman' (literally 'women's chamber')."}]},{"number":13,"label":"13","id":"magnifikat-s3-l5","source":"und füllt sie an mit seiner fernsten Zeit.","translation":"and fills her up with his most distant time.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/magnifikat-s3-l5.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"füllt sie an","title":"A separable verb","body":"Anfüllen, 'to fill up', splits: füllt sie an, 'fills her up', with the prefix an landing at the clause's end. Mit seiner fernsten Zeit, 'with his most distant time', uses mit plus dative; fernsten is the superlative of fern, 'far.'"}],"words":[{"surface":"und","lemma":"und","morphology":"conjunction","role":"depends on sucht","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"füllt","lemma":"füllen","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"depends on und","gloss":"fills"},{"surface":"sie","lemma":"sie","morphology":"pronoun, accusative, feminine, singular","role":"depends on füllt","gloss":"her"},{"surface":"an","lemma":"an","morphology":"particle","role":"depends on füllt","gloss":"up","note":"'an' is the separated prefix of the separable verb 'anfüllen' ('to fill up'), stranded at clause-end by verb-second word order ('füllt sie an' = anfüllen); it has no object of its own ('sie' already depends on 'füllt', not on 'an'), so it cannot be a preposition — should match how 'zu' is tagged 'particle' elsewhere in this same batch."},{"surface":"mit","lemma":"mit","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on füllt","gloss":"with"},{"surface":"seiner","lemma":"sein","morphology":"determiner, dative, feminine, singular","role":"depends on Zeit","gloss":"his"},{"surface":"fernsten","lemma":"fernst","morphology":"adjective, dative, feminine, singular","role":"depends on Zeit","gloss":"most distant"},{"surface":"Zeit","lemma":"Zeit","morphology":"noun, dative, feminine, singular","role":"depends on mit","gloss":"time"}]},{"number":14,"label":"14","id":"magnifikat-s4-l1","source":"Daß er mich fand. Bedenk nur; und Befehle","translation":"That he found me. Only think; and commands","stanza":4,"audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/magnifikat-s4-l1.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"Daß er mich fand","title":"An exclamation on its own","body":"A daß-clause usually depends on a main clause, but here Daß er mich fand stands alone as an exclamation, 'That he found me!' The verb fand, simple past of finden, still sits at the clause's end, as subordinate word order requires."}],"words":[{"surface":"Daß","lemma":"daß","morphology":"subordinating conjunction","role":"depends on fand","gloss":"That"},{"surface":"er","lemma":"er","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on fand","gloss":"he"},{"surface":"mich","lemma":"mich","morphology":"pronoun, accusative, singular","role":"depends on fand","gloss":"me"},{"surface":"fand","lemma":"finden","morphology":"verb, past, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"found"},{"surface":"Bedenk","lemma":"bedenken","morphology":"verb, imperative, second-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"think"},{"surface":"nur","lemma":"nur","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on Bedenk","gloss":"only"},{"surface":"und","lemma":"und","morphology":"conjunction","role":"depends on Bedenk","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"Befehle","lemma":"Befehl","morphology":"noun, accusative, masculine, plural","role":"depends on gab","gloss":"commands"}]},{"number":15,"label":"15","id":"magnifikat-s4-l2","source":"um meinetwillen gab von Stern zu Stern–.","translation":"gave for my sake from star to star–.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/magnifikat-s4-l2.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"um meinetwillen","title":"A frame for someone's sake","body":"The fixed frame um ... willen, 'for the sake of', takes special pronoun forms: um meinetwillen means 'for my sake'. The sentence continues Befehle from the line before: commands given 'for my sake, from star to star.'"}],"words":[{"surface":"um","lemma":"um","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on gab","gloss":"for"},{"surface":"meinetwillen","lemma":"meinetwillen","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on um","gloss":"my sake","note":"'um meinetwillen' = 'for my sake', a fixed archaic genitive idiom."},{"surface":"gab","lemma":"geben","morphology":"verb, past, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"gave"},{"surface":"von","lemma":"von","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on gab","gloss":"from"},{"surface":"Stern","lemma":"Stern","morphology":"noun, dative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on von","gloss":"star"},{"surface":"zu","lemma":"zu","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on Stern","gloss":"to"},{"surface":"Stern–.","lemma":"Stern","morphology":"noun, dative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on zu","gloss":"star"}]},{"number":16,"label":"16","id":"magnifikat-s4-l3","source":"Verherrliche und hebe, meine Seele,","translation":"Glorify and lift up, my soul,","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/magnifikat-s4-l3.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"Verherrliche und hebe","title":"Two imperatives to the soul","body":"Verherrliche, 'glorify', from verherrlichen, and hebe, 'lift up', from heben, are both imperatives addressed to meine Seele, 'my soul'. Their shared object, den Herrn, is held back to the next line."}],"words":[{"surface":"Verherrliche","lemma":"verherrlichen","morphology":"verb, imperative, second-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"Glorify"},{"surface":"und","lemma":"und","morphology":"conjunction","role":"depends on Verherrliche","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"hebe","lemma":"heben","morphology":"verb, imperative, second-person, singular","role":"depends on und","gloss":"lift up"},{"surface":"meine","lemma":"mein","morphology":"determiner, nominative, feminine, singular","role":"vocative address","gloss":"my"},{"surface":"Seele","lemma":"Seele","morphology":"noun, nominative, feminine, singular","role":"vocative address","gloss":"soul"}]},{"number":17,"label":"17","id":"magnifikat-s4-l4","source":"so hoch du kannst: den Herrn.","translation":"as high as you can: the Lord.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/magnifikat-s4-l4.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"den Herrn","title":"The held-back object","body":"Der Herr, 'the Lord', becomes den Herrn in the accusative, adding -n because Herr is a weak masculine noun. It is suspended to the very last words of the poem, the object of verherrliche and hebe from the lines before."}],"words":[{"surface":"so","lemma":"so","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on hoch","gloss":"as"},{"surface":"hoch","lemma":"hoch","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on kannst","gloss":"high"},{"surface":"du","lemma":"du","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, singular","role":"depends on kannst","gloss":"you"},{"surface":"kannst","lemma":"können","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, second-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"can"},{"surface":"den","lemma":"der","morphology":"determiner, accusative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on Herrn","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"Herrn","lemma":"Herr","morphology":"noun, accusative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on hebe","gloss":"Lord"}]}]}