parsing

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

parse \parse\ (p[aum]rs), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {parsed}
   (p[aum]rst); p. pr. & vb. n. {parsing}.] [L. pars a part;
   pars orationis a part of speech. See {Part}, n.] (Gram.)
   To resolve into its elements, as a sentence, pointing out the
   several parts of speech, and their relation to each other by
   government or agreement; to analyze and describe
   grammatically.
   [1913 Webster]

         Let him construe the letter into English, and parse it
         over perfectly.                          --Ascham.
   [1913 Webster]

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

parser
parsing

   <language> An {algorithm} or program to determine the
   syntactic structure of a sentence or string of symbols in some
   language.  A parser normally takes as input a sequence of
   {tokens} output by a {lexical analyser}.  It may produce some
   kind of {abstract syntax tree} as output.  One of the best
   known {parser generators} is {yacc}.

   (1997-07-21)

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

24 Moby Thesaurus words for "parsing":
      blocking, descriptive grammar, detailing, enumeration,
      generative grammar, glossematics, grammar, grammatical analysis,
      grammatical theory, grammaticality, itemization, morphology,
      phonology, phrase-structure grammar, resolution, rules of language,
      scansion, schematization, school grammar, stratificational grammar,
      structural grammar, tagmemic analysis, traditional grammar,
      transformational grammar