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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
parse \parse\ (p[aum]rs), verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {parsed} (p[aum]rst); p. pr. & vb. n. {parsing}.] [L. pars a part; pars orationis a part of speech. See {Part}, noun] (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.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
parsing {parser}
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