"scare wild beasts away". - What's the function of 'away'?

[jutfrank]

Incidentally, your list includes seven functions and one word class (part of speech), so it's neither consistent nor complete.

Which one is the word class?

[Piscean]

Verb.

[IsaacZ]

scare away wild beasts

Why are your functions limited to the ones you cite?

Incidentally, your list includes seven functions and one word class (part of speech), so it's neither consistent nor complete.

Traditionally, We use five basic sentence structures (plus There be) to categorize every sentence. They are:

S V P
S V
S V O
S V IO DO
S V O C

Explanations of the letters:

S for Subject
V for Verb
P for Predicative   
O for Object
C for Complement

Three other members can appear in a sentence to make it longer with more details. They are:

attribute  
adverbial
appositive 

These are the eight functions I mentioned earlier, in which Verb is actually a word class. I didn't use the term 'predicate', because it seems to be a bigger concept which could contain other functions.

With this system, We only talk about object complements and subject complements, with no position for compliments of verbs. Then, is it possible for me to solve the original problem if I'm limited to these terms?

[PaulMatthews]

Traditionally, We use five basic sentence structures (plus There be) to categorize every sentence. They are:
With this system, We only talk about object complements and subject complements, with no position for compliments of verbs. Then, is it possible for me to solve the original problem if I'm limited to these terms?

No.

[jutfrank]

Which one is the word class?

Verb.

So what's the function of the verb shot in, say, Alice shot Bob?

[Piscean]

Predicator.

[IsaacZ]

No.

I probably need to read a grammar book so as to catch up with what you have said about the difference between complements and adjuncts. Any suggestion?

[IsaacZ]

So what's the function of the verb shot in, say, Alice shot Bob?

FYI:

predicate refers to a major constituent of sentence structure in a binary analysis in which all obligatory constituents other than the subject were considered together. It usually expresses actions, processes, and states that relate to the subject.
Predicator is suggested for verb or verbs included in a predicate.

Quoted from LINGUISTICS - A COURSE BOOK by Zhanglin Hu

[jutfrank]

Thanks, but one more question, just to be clear.

Alice is guilty.

The adjective guilty is also a predicator, right? And also the preposition in in the following?:

The cat is on the mat.

[PaulMatthews]

Thanks, but one more question, just to be clear.

Alice is guilty.

The adjective guilty is also a predicator, right? And also the preposition in in the following?:

The cat is on the mat.

No, the predicator is always a verb.

"Guilty" is 'predicative complement' of "be" in its ascriptive sense.

"On" is 'head' of the PP "on the mat".

Predicator, complement and head are all functions.