parse

 
Pronunciation: /pɑːz/

verb

[with object]
  • resolve (a sentence) into its component parts and describe their syntactic roles: I asked a couple of students to parse these sentences for me
  • Computing analyse (a string or text) into logical syntactic components: a user question input is parsed into an internal conceptual representation

noun

Computing
  • an act of parsing a string or a text: a failed parse was retried

Origin:

mid 16th century: perhaps from Middle English pars 'parts of speech', from Old French pars 'parts' (influenced by Latin pars 'part')