parse \parse\ (p[aum]rs), v. t. [imp. & p. p. parsed
   (p[aum]rst); p. pr. & vb. n. parsing.] [L. pars a part;
   pars orationis a part of speech. See Part, n.] (Gram.)
   To resolve into its elements, as a sentence, pointing out the
   several parts of speech, and their relation to each other by
   government or agreement; to analyze and describe
   grammatically.
   [1913 Webster]

         Let him construe the letter into English, and parse it
         over perfectly.                          --Ascham.
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	24 Moby Thesaurus words for "parsing":
   blocking, descriptive grammar, detailing, enumeration,
   generative grammar, glossematics, grammar, grammatical analysis,
   grammatical theory, grammaticality, itemization, morphology,
   phonology, phrase-structure grammar, resolution, rules of language,
   scansion, schematization, school grammar, stratificational grammar,
   structural grammar, tagmemic analysis, traditional grammar,
   transformational grammar

	

	parser
parse
parsing

    An algorithm or program to determine the
   syntactic structure of ("parse") a sentence or string of
   symbols in some language.  A parser normally takes as input a
   sequence of tokens output by a lexical analyser.  It may
   produce some kind of abstract syntax tree as output.  A
   parser may be produced automatically from a grammar by a
   parser generators such as yacc.

   A parser is normally part of some larger program, like a
   compiler, which takes the output of the parser and attempts
   to extract meaning from it in some way, e.g. translating it
   into another language.

   (2009-06-26)