1. To determine the syntactic structure of a sentence or other
utterance (close to the standard English meaning). That was the one
I saw you.
I can't parse that.
2. More generally, to understand or comprehend. It's very
simple; you just kretch the glims and then aos the zotz.
I
can't parse that.
3. Of fish, to have to remove the bones yourself. I object
to parsing fish
, means I don't want to get a whole fish, but
a sliced one is okay
. A parsed
fish has been deboned. There is some controversy over whether
unparsed should mean
‘bony’, or also mean ‘deboned’.