[parse] vb parsed ; pars.ing [L pars orationis part of speech] vt (1553) 1 a: to resolve (as a sentence) into component parts of speech and describe them grammatically b: to describe grammatically by stating the part of speech and explaining the inflection and syntactical relationships
2: to examine in a minute way: analyze critically ~ vi 1: to give a grammatical description of a word or a group of words
2: to admit of being parsed
[2]parse n (1963): a product or an instance of parsing