Base and derived adjectives Table of contents

Part of speech, general grammatical meaning and question.
II	Initial form (masculine, singular, nominative). Morphological features:
	A	Permanent morphological features: category by value (qualitative, derived , possessive).
	B	Variable morphological features:
		1	only for quality adjectives:
			a) degree of comparison (positive, comparative, excellent); b) full or short form;
		2	number, gender (singular), case.
III	Role in the sentence (what part of the sentence is the adjective in this sentence).

Examples of parsing adjectives:
After swimming, we lay on the hot sand from the southern sun. (Nagibin)
(on) hot (sand)
1. Adjective; denotes a sign of an object, answers the question (on the sand) what?
2. N. f. - hot.
A) Permanent morphological features: a qualitative adjective; there are degrees of comparison (hot) and a short form (hot);
B) Non-permanent morphological features: used in a positive degree, in full form, in the singular, masculine, prepositional.
3. In the proposal, it plays the role of a definition.
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(From) south (sun)
1. Adjective; denotes a sign of an object, answers the question (from the sun) what?
2. N. f. - southern.
A) Permanent morphological features: derived adjective;
B) Variable morphological features: used in the singular, neuter, genitive.
3. In the proposal, it plays the role of a definition.
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Bulgaria is a good country, and Russia is the best (Isakovsky).
Good
1. Adjective; denotes a sign of an object, answers the question (country) what?
2. N. f. - good.
A) Permanent morphological features: a qualitative adjective; there are degrees of comparison (better) and a short form (good);
B) Non-permanent morphological features: used in a positive degree, in a short form, in the singular, feminine.
3. In the sentence, it plays the role of the nominal part of the predicate.
better
1. Adjective; denotes a sign of an object, answers the question (Russia) what?
2. N. f. - good.
A) Permanent morphological features: a qualitative adjective; quality adjective; there are degrees of comparison (better), short form (good);
B) Variable morphological features: used in a comparative degree (simple form).
3. In the sentence, it plays the role of the nominal part of the predicate.
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Not answering his sister's words, Nikifor shrugged his shoulders and shrugged his shoulders (Melnikov-Pechersky).
(to) sisters (words)
1. Adjective; denotes a sign of an object, answers the question (words) whose?
2. N. f. - sisters.
A) Permanent morphological features: possessive adjective;
B) Non-permanent morphological features: used in the plural, accusative.
3. In the proposal, it plays the role of a definition.