Re: syntactically speaking
Sorry that I didn't reply sooner.
This all looks good to be, but it is not syntax. Your terms are the terms of morphology.
Still, it all looks good.
Frank
Re: syntactically speaking
Re: syntactically speaking
A few comments and observations which may be of help:
born= main verb
Actually a simple participle. I would avoid calling this (the "focus", if you will, in semantic terms) a 'main verb', which is a term traditionally reserved to label the finite verbal element of a clause (here the preceding auxiliary 'was').
a = Adjective
Articles are among a wide range of forms that were formerly (i.e. in previous centuries!) classified as adjectives. A more normal classification for 'a' and 'the' would be 'article', although articles are generally now subsumed under the more general syntactic heading of 'determiner'.
slave= noun, ... concrete
Yes, but be aware that 'abstract/concrete' is not a grammatical classification!
1849 = noun
Well, yes, but only in the sense that it is elliptical for 'the year 1849'.
where = Adverb of place
Yes, but to be more precise, relative adverb.