parse

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
parse /pɑːz/

▶verb

• 1 resolve (a sentence) into its component parts and describe their syntactic roles.

• 2 Computing analyse (text) into logical syntactic components.

– derivatives
parser noun.

– origin C16: perh. from ME pars ‘parts of speech’, from OFr. pars ‘parts’.