In the KISS framework, "raw" is simply a post-positioned adjective.
Post-positioned adjectives are relatively rare compared to clauses,
etc., but the concept is very useful if one wants to explain every word
in any sentence. In effect, the post-positioned adjective is a reduction
of a subordinate clause that has a predicate adjective for a
complement:

They ate the fish *while it was* raw.

In KISS Grammar, the construction is no big deal, and does not require
any of the metalinguistic terminology that I see posted in some of the
other responses to the question.
     For pedagogical purposes, Keep It Simple.
Ed



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        How would people parse "They ate the fish raw"?

         "Raw" looks like an object complement to me, but in this
pattern (Kolln's Pattern IX) the verb typically acts to bring about the
connection between direct object and object complement, as in "They
painted the barn red."  Is "They ate the fish raw" a variation?

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