Syntax

Syntactic actants

Actant 1: whose eyebrow it is
(a) Genitive
(b) Possessive
Тћнкие брћви Натђши сердќто сдвќнулись к перенћсью. Natasha angrily knitted her thin eyebrows over the bridge of her nose.
Её брћви бІли сќльно подведенІ. Her eyebrows were heavily made up.
NB When the word брћвь functions as a subject and does not have a descriptive modifier, the construction брћвь у + Genitive is often preferred to (a) and (b), above:
Брћви у неё бІли сќльно подведенІ. Her eyebrows were heavily made up.

Restrictive modifiers

(a) adjectival modifier
лљвая/прђвая брћвь the left/right eyebrow
Лљвая брћвь у неё былђ подведенђ сильнље, чљм прђвая. Her left eyebrow was made up more heavily than her right one.
рассечённая брћвь the eyebrow with a cut in it
тђ брћвь, котћрая былђ мнљ виднђ the eyebrow that was visible to me