{"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":"quai-du-rosaire","title":{"source":"Quai du Rosaire","translated":"Quai du Rosaire"},"section":"New Poems","summary":null,"url":"https://1732studios.com/books/rilke/quai-du-rosaire","lines":20},"previous":"https://1732studios.com/books/rilke/der-platz","next":"https://1732studios.com/books/rilke/beguinage","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":"quai-du-rosaire-s1-l1","source":"Die Gassen haben einen sachten Gang","translation":"The lanes have a gentle gait","stanza":1,"audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/quai-du-rosaire-s1-l1.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"sachten Gang","title":"sacht and der Gang","body":"sacht means 'soft, gentle, unhurried', describing motion. der Gang here is not a corridor but a way of walking, a gait or pace. einen sachten Gang haben means 'to have a gentle gait'."}],"words":[{"surface":"Die","lemma":"der","morphology":"determiner, nominative, feminine, plural","role":"depends on Gassen","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"Gassen","lemma":"Gasse","morphology":"noun, nominative, feminine, plural","role":"depends on haben","gloss":"lanes"},{"surface":"haben","lemma":"haben","morphology":"auxiliary verb, present, indicative, third-person, plural","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"have"},{"surface":"einen","lemma":"ein","morphology":"determiner, accusative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on Gang","gloss":"a"},{"surface":"sachten","lemma":"sacht","morphology":"adjective, accusative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on Gang","gloss":"gentle"},{"surface":"Gang","lemma":"Gang","morphology":"noun, accusative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on haben","gloss":"gait"}]},{"number":2,"label":"2","id":"quai-du-rosaire-s1-l2","source":"(wie manchmal Menschen gehen im Genesen","translation":"(the way people sometimes walk while convalescing,","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/quai-du-rosaire-s1-l2.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"im Genesen","title":"A nominalized infinitive","body":"genesen, 'to recover, convalesce', is turned into a neuter noun, das Genesen, simply by capitalizing the infinitive. With in dem contracted to im, im Genesen means 'in the state of recovering'."}],"words":[{"surface":"wie","lemma":"wie","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on gehen","gloss":"the way"},{"surface":"manchmal","lemma":"manchmal","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on gehen","gloss":"sometimes"},{"surface":"Menschen","lemma":"Mensch","morphology":"noun, nominative, masculine, plural","role":"depends on gehen","gloss":"people"},{"surface":"gehen","lemma":"gehen","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, plural","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"walk"},{"surface":"im","lemma":"in","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on gehen","gloss":"while"},{"surface":"Genesen","lemma":"Genesen","morphology":"noun, dative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on im","gloss":"convalescing"}]},{"number":3,"label":"3","id":"quai-du-rosaire-s1-l3","source":"nachdenkend: was ist früher hier gewesen?)","translation":"thinking: what was here before?)","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/quai-du-rosaire-s1-l3.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"nachdenkend","title":"Present participle as adverb","body":"nachdenkend is the present participle of the separable verb nachdenken, 'to ponder, reflect', formed with the ending -d. Used adverbially here, it describes how the subject walks: 'thinking, musing'. The prefix nach- stays fused in this form."}],"words":[{"surface":"nachdenkend","lemma":"nachdenkend","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on gehen","gloss":"thinking"},{"surface":"was","lemma":"was","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on ist","gloss":"what"},{"surface":"ist","lemma":"sein","morphology":"auxiliary verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"was"},{"surface":"früher","lemma":"früh","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on gewesen","gloss":"before"},{"surface":"hier","lemma":"hier","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on gewesen","gloss":"here"},{"surface":"gewesen","lemma":"sein","morphology":"auxiliary verb, participle","role":"depends on ist","gloss":"been"}]},{"number":4,"label":"4","id":"quai-du-rosaire-s1-l4","source":"und die an Plätze kommen, warten lang","translation":"and the ones that reach the squares wait long","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/quai-du-rosaire-s1-l4.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"die an Plätze kommen","title":"die used as a relative pronoun","body":"Here die is not the article but a relative pronoun meaning 'those which', referring back to die Gassen, 'the lanes'. It opens a relative clause, die an Plätze kommen, 'which come to squares', so its verb kommen stands at the clause's end."}],"words":[{"surface":"und","lemma":"und","morphology":"conjunction","role":"depends on kommen","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"die","lemma":"der","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, plural","role":"depends on kommen","gloss":"the ones"},{"surface":"an","lemma":"an","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on kommen","gloss":"at"},{"surface":"Plätze","lemma":"Platz","morphology":"noun, accusative, masculine, plural","role":"depends on an","gloss":"squares"},{"surface":"kommen","lemma":"kommen","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, plural","role":"main verb of the relative clause","gloss":"reach"},{"surface":"warten","lemma":"warten","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, plural","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"wait"},{"surface":"lang","lemma":"lang","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on warten","gloss":"long"}]},{"number":5,"label":"5","id":"quai-du-rosaire-s2-l1","source":"auf eine andre, die mit einem Schritt","translation":"for another that, with a single step,","stanza":2,"audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/quai-du-rosaire-s2-l1.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"warten auf","title":"A verb paired with a preposition","body":"warten, 'to wait', takes the preposition auf with the accusative for the thing awaited: warten auf eine andre means 'to wait for another'. eine andre is the accusative object of auf, split across two lines."}],"words":[{"surface":"auf","lemma":"auf","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on warten","gloss":"for"},{"surface":"eine","lemma":"ein","morphology":"determiner, accusative, feminine, singular","role":"depends on andre","gloss":"a"},{"surface":"andre","lemma":"Andere","morphology":"noun, accusative, feminine, singular","role":"depends on auf","gloss":"another"},{"surface":"die","lemma":"der","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, feminine, singular","role":"depends on tritt","gloss":"that"},{"surface":"mit","lemma":"mit","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on tritt","gloss":"with"},{"surface":"einem","lemma":"ein","morphology":"determiner, dative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on Schritt","gloss":"a"},{"surface":"Schritt","lemma":"Schritt","morphology":"noun, dative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on mit","gloss":"step"}]},{"number":6,"label":"6","id":"quai-du-rosaire-s2-l2","source":"über das abendklare Wasser tritt,","translation":"steps across the evening-clear water,","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/quai-du-rosaire-s2-l2.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"abendklare","title":"A coined compound adjective","body":"abendklar joins Abend, 'evening', and klar, 'clear', giving 'clear as the evening' or 'clear with evening light'. German lets a writer weld two words into one adjective this way, with no fixed dictionary entry. It modifies das Wasser, 'the water'."}],"words":[{"surface":"über","lemma":"über","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on tritt","gloss":"across"},{"surface":"das","lemma":"der","morphology":"determiner, accusative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on Wasser","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"abendklare","lemma":"abendklar","morphology":"adjective, accusative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on Wasser","gloss":"evening-clear"},{"surface":"Wasser","lemma":"Wasser","morphology":"noun, accusative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on über","gloss":"water"},{"surface":"tritt","lemma":"treten","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"steps"}]},{"number":7,"label":"7","id":"quai-du-rosaire-s2-l3","source":"darin, je mehr sich rings die Dinge mildern,","translation":"in which, the more the things around grow softer,","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/quai-du-rosaire-s2-l3.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"je mehr ... so wirklich","title":"A correlative je mehr comparison","body":"je plus a comparative sets up a 'the more, the more' construction. je mehr sich die Dinge mildern, 'the more the things soften', is answered later by so wirklich wird, 'the more real it becomes'. Because the je clause is subordinate, its verb mildern comes last."}],"words":[{"surface":"darin","lemma":"darin","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on tritt","gloss":"in it"},{"surface":"je","lemma":"je","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on mehr","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"mehr","lemma":"mehr","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on mildern","gloss":"more"},{"surface":"sich","lemma":"sich","morphology":"pronoun, accusative, plural, reflexive","role":"depends on mildern","gloss":"themselves"},{"surface":"rings","lemma":"rings","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on mildern","gloss":"around"},{"surface":"die","lemma":"der","morphology":"determiner, nominative, neuter, plural","role":"depends on Dinge","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"Dinge","lemma":"Ding","morphology":"noun, nominative, neuter, plural","role":"depends on mildern","gloss":"things"},{"surface":"mildern","lemma":"mildern","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, plural","role":"main verb of the je-mehr clause","gloss":"grow softer"}]},{"number":8,"label":"8","id":"quai-du-rosaire-s2-l4","source":"die eingehängte Welt von Spiegelbildern","translation":"the hung-in world of mirror-images","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/quai-du-rosaire-s2-l4.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"eingehängte","title":"einhängen becomes eingehängte","body":"einhängen means 'to hang in, hook in, suspend within'. Used as a past participle before a noun, eingehängte Welt means 'the world hung in'. Spiegelbild means 'mirror-image', and von Spiegelbildern is dative plural after von."}],"words":[{"surface":"die","lemma":"der","morphology":"determiner, nominative, feminine, singular","role":"depends on Welt","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"eingehängte","lemma":"eingehängt","morphology":"adjective, nominative, feminine, singular","role":"depends on Welt","gloss":"hung-in"},{"surface":"Welt","lemma":"Welt","morphology":"noun, nominative, feminine, singular","role":"head of the phrase","gloss":"world"},{"surface":"von","lemma":"von","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on Welt","gloss":"of"},{"surface":"Spiegelbildern","lemma":"Spiegelbild","morphology":"noun, dative, neuter, plural","role":"depends on von","gloss":"mirror-images"}]},{"number":9,"label":"9","id":"quai-du-rosaire-s2-l5","source":"so wirklich wird, wie diese Dinge nie.","translation":"grows as real as these things never are.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/quai-du-rosaire-s2-l5.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"wie diese Dinge nie","title":"An elliptical comparison","body":"so wirklich, wie diese Dinge nie literally reads 'as real as these things never'. The verb is omitted after nie, 'never', which German allows in a so, wie comparison. The implied sense adds 'are' at the end."}],"words":[{"surface":"so","lemma":"so","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on wirklich","gloss":"as"},{"surface":"wirklich","lemma":"wirklich","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on wird","gloss":"real"},{"surface":"wird","lemma":"werden","morphology":"auxiliary verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"grows"},{"surface":"wie","lemma":"wie","morphology":"subordinating conjunction","role":"depends on wirklich","gloss":"as"},{"surface":"diese","lemma":"dieser","morphology":"determiner, nominative, neuter, plural","role":"depends on Dinge","gloss":"these"},{"surface":"Dinge","lemma":"Ding","morphology":"noun, nominative, neuter, plural","role":"depends on wird","gloss":"things"},{"surface":"nie","lemma":"nie","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on Dinge","gloss":"never"}]},{"number":10,"label":"10","id":"quai-du-rosaire-s3-l1","source":"Verging nicht diese Stadt? Nun siehst du, wie","translation":"Did this city not pass away? Now you see how","stanza":3,"audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/quai-du-rosaire-s3-l1.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"Verging","title":"vergehen in the simple past","body":"vergehen means 'to pass away, fade, perish'. verging is its simple past tense, third person singular. Fronted to open the question Verging nicht diese Stadt, it asks 'did this city not pass away'. ver- is inseparable, so it never detaches from the stem."}],"words":[{"surface":"Verging","lemma":"vergehen","morphology":"verb, past, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"passed away"},{"surface":"nicht","lemma":"nicht","morphology":"particle","role":"depends on Verging","gloss":"not"},{"surface":"diese","lemma":"dieser","morphology":"determiner, nominative, feminine, singular","role":"depends on Stadt","gloss":"this"},{"surface":"Stadt","lemma":"Stadt","morphology":"noun, nominative, feminine, singular","role":"subject of Verging","gloss":"city","note":"vergehen is intransitive, so 'diese Stadt' is its subject, not an object — nominative not accusative."},{"surface":"Nun","lemma":"nun","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on siehst","gloss":"now"},{"surface":"siehst","lemma":"sehen","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, second-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"see"},{"surface":"du","lemma":"du","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, singular","role":"depends on siehst","gloss":"you"},{"surface":"wie","lemma":"wie","morphology":"subordinating conjunction","role":"depends on siehst","gloss":"how"}]},{"number":11,"label":"11","id":"quai-du-rosaire-s3-l2","source":"(nach einem unbegreiflichen Gesetz)","translation":"(by some incomprehensible law)","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/quai-du-rosaire-s3-l2.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"nach einem Gesetz","title":"nach plus the dative","body":"nach here means 'according to, in accordance with' and governs the dative, giving nach einem Gesetz, 'according to a law'. unbegreiflich, 'incomprehensible', is built on begreifen, 'to grasp, comprehend'."}],"words":[{"surface":"nach","lemma":"nach","morphology":"preposition","role":"head of the phrase","gloss":"by"},{"surface":"einem","lemma":"ein","morphology":"determiner, dative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on Gesetz","gloss":"some"},{"surface":"unbegreiflichen","lemma":"unbegreiflich","morphology":"adjective, dative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on Gesetz","gloss":"incomprehensible"},{"surface":"Gesetz","lemma":"Gesetz","morphology":"noun, dative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on nach","gloss":"law"}]},{"number":12,"label":"12","id":"quai-du-rosaire-s3-l3","source":"sie wach und deutlich wird im Umgestellten,","translation":"it grows awake and distinct in the reversed,","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/quai-du-rosaire-s3-l3.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"im Umgestellten","title":"das Umgestellte as a noun","body":"umstellen means 'to rearrange, transpose, turn around'. Its past participle umgestellt is used here as a neuter noun, das Umgestellte, 'that which has been turned around'. im Umgestellten is dative after in, contracted to im."}],"words":[{"surface":"sie","lemma":"sie","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, feminine, singular","role":"depends on wird","gloss":"it"},{"surface":"wach","lemma":"wach","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on wird","gloss":"awake"},{"surface":"und","lemma":"und","morphology":"conjunction","role":"depends on wach","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"deutlich","lemma":"deutlich","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on und","gloss":"distinct"},{"surface":"wird","lemma":"werden","morphology":"auxiliary verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"grows"},{"surface":"im","lemma":"in","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on wird","gloss":"in the"},{"surface":"Umgestellten","lemma":"umgestellte","morphology":"noun, dative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on im","gloss":"the reversed"}]},{"number":13,"label":"13","id":"quai-du-rosaire-s3-l4","source":"als wäre dort das Leben nicht so selten;","translation":"as if life there were not so rare;","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/quai-du-rosaire-s3-l4.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"als wäre","title":"A subjunctive for an unreal comparison","body":"als, 'as though', combined with a subjunctive verb introduces a hypothetical comparison. wäre is the subjunctive form of sein, 'to be'. als wäre dort das Leben nicht so selten means 'as though life there were not so rare'."}],"words":[{"surface":"als","lemma":"als","morphology":"subordinating conjunction","role":"depends on wäre","gloss":"as if"},{"surface":"wäre","lemma":"sein","morphology":"auxiliary verb, past, subjunctive, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"were"},{"surface":"dort","lemma":"dort","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on wäre","gloss":"there"},{"surface":"das","lemma":"der","morphology":"determiner, nominative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on Leben","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"Leben","lemma":"Leben","morphology":"noun, nominative, neuter, singular","role":"subject of wäre","gloss":"life"},{"surface":"nicht","lemma":"nicht","morphology":"particle","role":"depends on wäre","gloss":"not"},{"surface":"so","lemma":"so","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on selten","gloss":"so"},{"surface":"selten","lemma":"selten","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on wäre","gloss":"rare"}]},{"number":14,"label":"14","id":"quai-du-rosaire-s3-l5","source":"dort hängen jetzt die Gärten groß und gelten,","translation":"the gardens hang there now, large, and hold sway,","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/quai-du-rosaire-s3-l5.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"gelten","title":"A verb used without an object","body":"gelten means 'to be valid, to count, to hold good, to carry weight'. Here it appears without an object: die Gärten gelten, 'the gardens hold sway'. It is third person plural present, coordinated with hängen by und."}],"words":[{"surface":"dort","lemma":"dort","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on hängen","gloss":"there"},{"surface":"hängen","lemma":"hängen","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, plural","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"hang"},{"surface":"jetzt","lemma":"jetzt","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on hängen","gloss":"now"},{"surface":"die","lemma":"der","morphology":"determiner, nominative, masculine, plural","role":"depends on Gärten","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"Gärten","lemma":"Garten","morphology":"noun, nominative, masculine, plural","role":"depends on hängen","gloss":"gardens"},{"surface":"groß","lemma":"groß","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on hängen","gloss":"large"},{"surface":"und","lemma":"und","morphology":"conjunction","role":"depends on hängen","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"gelten","lemma":"gelten","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, plural","role":"depends on und","gloss":"hold sway"}]},{"number":15,"label":"15","id":"quai-du-rosaire-s3-l6","source":"dort dreht sich plötzlich hinter schnell erhellten","translation":"there, suddenly, behind swiftly lit","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/quai-du-rosaire-s3-l6.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"dreht sich","title":"A reflexive verb with a delayed subject","body":"sich drehen means 'to turn, spin, revolve'. Its subject, der Tanz, 'the dance', only appears on the next line, so dort dreht sich plötzlich der Tanz means 'there the dance suddenly turns'. erhellt, 'lit', is the past participle of erhellen."}],"words":[{"surface":"dort","lemma":"dort","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on dreht","gloss":"there"},{"surface":"dreht","lemma":"drehen","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"turns"},{"surface":"sich","lemma":"sich","morphology":"pronoun, accusative, singular, reflexive","role":"depends on dreht","gloss":"(reflexive)"},{"surface":"plötzlich","lemma":"plötzlich","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on dreht","gloss":"suddenly"},{"surface":"hinter","lemma":"hinter","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on erhellten","gloss":"behind"},{"surface":"schnell","lemma":"schnell","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on erhellten","gloss":"swiftly"},{"surface":"erhellten","lemma":"erhellt","morphology":"adjective, dative, plural","role":"depends on Fenstern","gloss":"lit","note":"agrees with 'Fenstern' (dative plural) in the next line, not with 'dreht'."}]},{"number":16,"label":"16","id":"quai-du-rosaire-s3-l7","source":"Fenstern der Tanz in den Estaminets.","translation":"windows the dance turns in the taverns.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/quai-du-rosaire-s3-l7.m4a","notes":[],"words":[{"surface":"Fenstern","lemma":"Fenster","morphology":"noun, dative, neuter, plural","role":"depends on hinter","gloss":"windows","note":"object of 'hinter' from the previous line: 'hinter ... erhellten Fenstern' = 'behind ... lit windows'."},{"surface":"der","lemma":"der","morphology":"determiner, nominative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on Tanz","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"Tanz","lemma":"Tanz","morphology":"noun, nominative, masculine, singular","role":"subject of dreht","gloss":"dance","note":"the real subject of 'dreht' in the previous line: 'the dance turns'."},{"surface":"in","lemma":"in","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on dreht","gloss":"in"},{"surface":"den","lemma":"der","morphology":"determiner, dative, masculine, plural","role":"depends on Estaminets","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"Estaminets","lemma":"Estaminet","morphology":"noun, dative, masculine, plural","role":"depends on in","gloss":"taverns"}]},{"number":17,"label":"17","id":"quai-du-rosaire-s4-l1","source":"Und oben blieb?–Die Stille nur, ich glaube,","translation":"And above, what stayed?—Only the stillness, I think,","stanza":4,"audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/quai-du-rosaire-s4-l1.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"Und oben blieb?","title":"An elliptical question with bleiben","body":"bleiben means 'to remain, stay'. blieb is its simple past tense. The question Und oben blieb drops its subject, asking 'and what remained above', and is answered after the dash by Die Stille nur, 'only the stillness'."}],"words":[{"surface":"Und","lemma":"und","morphology":"conjunction","role":"depends on blieb?–Die","gloss":"And"},{"surface":"oben","lemma":"oben","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on blieb?–Die","gloss":"above"},{"surface":"blieb?–Die","lemma":"bleiben","morphology":"verb, past, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"stayed?—the","note":"fused token: the tokenizer joined 'blieb' (stayed) with the punctuation and the next word 'Die' because the source has no spaces around the dash."},{"surface":"Stille","lemma":"Stille","morphology":"noun, nominative, feminine, singular","role":"depends on blieb?–Die","gloss":"stillness"},{"surface":"nur","lemma":"nur","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on blieb?–Die","gloss":"only"},{"surface":"ich","lemma":"ich","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, singular","role":"depends on glaube","gloss":"I"},{"surface":"glaube","lemma":"glauben","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, first-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"think"}]},{"number":18,"label":"18","id":"quai-du-rosaire-s4-l2","source":"und kostet langsam und von nichts gedrängt","translation":"and slowly, pressed by nothing, it tastes","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/quai-du-rosaire-s4-l2.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"kostet","title":"kosten meaning to taste","body":"kosten has two senses: 'to cost' and 'to taste, savor'. Here it is the second: kostet Beere um Beere means 'tastes berry after berry'. von nichts gedrängt means 'urged on by nothing', from drängen, 'to press, urge'."}],"words":[{"surface":"und","lemma":"und","morphology":"conjunction","role":"depends on kostet","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"kostet","lemma":"kosten","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"tastes"},{"surface":"langsam","lemma":"langsam","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on kostet","gloss":"slowly"},{"surface":"und","lemma":"und","morphology":"conjunction","role":"depends on langsam","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"von","lemma":"von","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on gedrängt","gloss":"by"},{"surface":"nichts","lemma":"nichts","morphology":"pronoun, neuter","role":"depends on von","gloss":"nothing"},{"surface":"gedrängt","lemma":"drängen","morphology":"verb, participle","role":"depends on kostet","gloss":"pressed"}]},{"number":19,"label":"19","id":"quai-du-rosaire-s4-l3","source":"Beere um Beere aus der süßen Traube","translation":"berry after berry from the sweet cluster","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/quai-du-rosaire-s4-l3.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"Beere um Beere","title":"Noun um noun for repetition","body":"The pattern noun um noun with no article means 'one after another': Beere um Beere means 'berry after berry'. aus der süßen Traube is dative after aus, 'out of'; die Traube means 'cluster, bunch'."}],"words":[{"surface":"Beere","lemma":"Beere","morphology":"noun, nominative, feminine, singular","role":"head of the phrase","gloss":"berry","note":"'Beere um Beere' is an idiom: berry after berry, one at a time."},{"surface":"um","lemma":"um","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on Beere","gloss":"after"},{"surface":"Beere","lemma":"Beere","morphology":"noun, accusative, feminine, singular","role":"depends on um","gloss":"berry"},{"surface":"aus","lemma":"aus","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on Beere","gloss":"from"},{"surface":"der","lemma":"der","morphology":"determiner, dative, feminine, singular","role":"depends on Traube","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"süßen","lemma":"süß","morphology":"adjective, dative, feminine, singular","role":"depends on Traube","gloss":"sweet"},{"surface":"Traube","lemma":"Traube","morphology":"noun, dative, feminine, singular","role":"depends on aus","gloss":"cluster"}]},{"number":20,"label":"20","id":"quai-du-rosaire-s4-l4","source":"des Glockenspiels, das in den Himmeln hängt.","translation":"of the carillon hanging in the heavens.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/quai-du-rosaire-s4-l4.m4a","notes":[],"words":[{"surface":"des","lemma":"der","morphology":"determiner, genitive, neuter, singular","role":"depends on Glockenspiels","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"Glockenspiels","lemma":"Glockenspiel","morphology":"noun, genitive, neuter, singular","role":"head of the phrase","gloss":"carillon"},{"surface":"das","lemma":"der","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, neuter, singular","role":"subject of hängt","gloss":"which"},{"surface":"in","lemma":"in","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on hängt","gloss":"in"},{"surface":"den","lemma":"der","morphology":"determiner, dative, masculine, plural","role":"depends on Himmeln","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"Himmeln","lemma":"Himmel","morphology":"noun, dative, masculine, plural","role":"depends on in","gloss":"heavens"},{"surface":"hängt","lemma":"hängen","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"depends on Glockenspiels","gloss":"hanging"}]}]}