PARSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does parse mean? 

• PARSE (verb)
  The verb PARSE has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: PARSE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PARSE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they parse    ... he / she / it parses   
Past simple: parsed   
Past participle: parsed   
-ing form: parsing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Analyze syntactically by assigning a constituent structure to (a sentence)

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Hypernyms (to "parse" is one way to...):

analyse; analyze; break down; dissect; take apart (make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; break down into components or essential features)

Domain category:

grammar (the branch of linguistics that deals with syntax and morphology (and sometimes also deals with semantics))

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

Scientists have produced the first integrated computational model of reading, identifying which parts of the brain are responsible for such sub-processes as parsing sentences, determining the meaning of words and understanding relationships between characters.

(Researchers identify brain regions that encode words, grammar, story, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

He had seen too much of life, and his mind was too matured, to be wholly content with fractions, cube root, parsing, and analysis; and there were times when their conversation turned on other themes—the last poetry he had read, the latest poet she had studied.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)