MEANING
1. To analyze the grammatical structure or functions of a sentence or expression.
2. To analyze structured input according to rules that identify its components and relations.
3. To analyze or interpret something by separating its elements.
Use it for
grammar disentangled; a difficult construction understood; analysis rather than merely reading aloud
Words that belong together
- parse a sentence
- parse a clause
On the page
She parsed the sentence before deciding what it asserted.
He could not parse the clause as it stood in the damaged copy.
Nearby words
Related words
Word forms
- Base
- parse
- Past tense
- parsed
- Past participle
- parsed
- Present participle
- parsing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- parse
- Present continuous
- am/is/are parsing
- Present perfect
- have/has parsed
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been parsing
- Past
- parsed
- Past continuous
- was/were parsing
- Past perfect
- had parsed
- Past perfect continuous
- had been parsing
- Future
- will parse
- Future continuous
- will be parsing
- Future perfect
- will have parsed
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been parsing
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: literary. Forms: parse; parses; parsed; parsed; parsing Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: parses.
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