Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for PARSE
PARSE, v.t. [pàrs; from L. pars, part, or one of the Shemitic roots, פרס, to divide, or פרש to spread.]
In grammar, to resolve a sentence into its elements, or to show the several parts of speech composing a sentence, and their relation to each other by government or agreement.
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