To parse?

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parse
pɑːz/
verb
verb: parse; 3rd person present: parses; past tense: parsed; past participle: parsed; gerund or present participle: parsing
  1. 1.
    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
noun: parse; plural noun: parses
  1. 1.
    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 Frenchpars ‘parts’ (influenced by Latin pars ‘part’).
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