PARSE

I. verb (~d; parsing) Etymology: Latin pars orationis part of speech Date: circa 1553 transitive verb 1. to resolve (as a sentence) into component parts of speech and describe them grammatically, to describe grammatically by stating the part of speech and explaining the inflection and syntactical relationships, to examine in a minute way ; analyze critically , intransitive verb to give a grammatical description of a word or a group of words, to admit of being ~d, II. noun Date: 1963 a product or an instance of parsing