parse Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb analyze syntactically by assigning a constituent structure to (a sentence)

WordNet

Parse transitive verb
Etymology
L. pars a part; pars orationis a part of speech. See Part, n.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Parsed ; present participle & verbal noun Parsing
Definitions
  1. (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.
    Let him construe the letter into English, and parse it over perfectly. Ascham.

Webster 1913