他于是决定羞辱猫一番
Is 羞辱 a kind of verb after which you put two objects (I think we call it "object and complement")? I mean, a verb like 给, where you can for example say 我给你(o1)我的书(o2).
I don't quite understand if I should take 一番 from this sentence as a noun meaning "a word/ a sentence" or what. This is my main concern, in fact.
I'm sorry for asking two questions instead of one, but I think they're connected and the answer to the first one influences the answer to the second one.
In Chinese grammar, 一番 here is 数量短语. (not sure the correct translation of 数量短语, but literally it could be a numeral phrase). 一 is 数词(numeral) and 番 is 量词(measure word), so 一番 together is 数量短语.
One of the functions of 数量短语 is to work as a complement. E. g. 看一次. where 看 is a verb and 一次 is a complement.
By the same token, your example 羞辱猫一番 is understood grammatically as: 羞辱(verb)猫(object)一番(complement for the verb 羞辱).
In "這一番羞辱" (this one humiliation), 一番 is the counting word and classifier for the noun 羞辱
In "羞辱他一番" (to humiliate him once) 一番 is the counting word and verb classifier for the verb 羞辱
A verb classifier is for counting the number of a verb occurred, for example, 走兩回 (go two times); 斬一刀 (hack once)
As a verb, 羞辱 does take objects
Example:
當眾羞辱他 - Humiliate him in public
這番蠢話羞辱了他自己 - These foolish words humiliated himself
No, there is only one object, 貓.
一番, an adverb, literally means "once". Implicitly it bears the meaning of "completely", "to the degree of satisfaction".
