Syntactic function n+Npr
a noun preceding and in construction with a proper name nominal expression
In "Thief Zhi" one feels that the correct grammatical paraphrase is "Zhi, who happens to be of the thief-kind", so that one might read this as "nadNpr". The problem is that many of the words in this category might well have to be taken as being in apposition to the proper name that follows. The formula n+Npr seems therefore appropriately non-committal on how exactly the construction is to be taken.
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