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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>parse</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../P.html" title="P"/><link rel="previous" href="parm.html" title="parm"/><link rel="next" href="Pascal.html" title="Pascal"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">parse</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="parm.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">P</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Pascal.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="parse"/><dt xmlns="" id="parse"><b>parse</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">vt.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. To determine the syntactic structure of a sentence or other
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utterance (close to the standard English meaning). “<span class="quote">That was the one
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I saw you.</span>” “<span class="quote">I can't parse that.</span>” </p></dd><dd><p> 2. More generally, to understand or comprehend. “<span class="quote">It's very
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simple; you just kretch the glims and then aos the zotz.</span>” “<span class="quote">I
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can't parse that.</span>” </p></dd><dd><p> 3. Of fish, to have to remove the bones yourself. “<span class="quote">I object
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to parsing fish</span>”, means “<span class="quote">I don't want to get a whole fish, but
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a sliced one is okay</span>”. A <span class="firstterm">parsed
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fish</span> has been deboned. There is some controversy over whether
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<span class="firstterm">unparsed</span> should mean
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‘bony’, or also mean ‘deboned’.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="parm.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../P.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Pascal.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">parm </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Pascal</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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