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It is totally not doing that though -- how does it modify Akpu (or Babulal), like the participle "racing" in racing car? It doesn't -- it's an action that Akpu is taking a verb. Same as if Akpu is punching Babulal or anything else. "Racing car" is a type of car -- "exhorting" is a thing that Akpu is doing.
This may be your problem -- that is not true. A participle can act as a verb or an adjective, probably not both at once: https://www.grammarly.com/blog/participle/
I don't think I see the "I saw X Y-ing Z" pattern on that page, but a simpler one will do:
"The bird is singing outside my window" -- 'singing' is very clearly doing verb work here.
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"The singing bird is outside my window." -- this has verb-y aspects, since the bird is not always a singing bird (unlike a racing car) -- but it's still doing the adjective job of describing the current state of the bird.
(I'm pretty sure you are correct that 'exhorting' in your second sentence is a gerund, but a gerund really is not a verb in any sense; it acts as a noun. "hiking, swimming, exhorting" are names for those activities; things, not actions.)
Your definitions of parts of speech seem non-standard to me; anyways, what did you think was wrong with the initial sentence, lol? You got us into this mess.
This argument has exhausted my reserve of charity, so I will not participate further in it.
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