All of the Sumerian cities were built beside rivers, either on the Tigris or Euphrates or on one of their tributaries. The city rose, inside its brown brick walls, amid well-watered gardens and pastures won from the swamps. In all directions, the high levees of the irrigation canals led to grain and vegetable fields.
Parse is defined as to break something down into its parts, particularly for study of the individual parts. An example of to parse is to break down a sentence to explain each element to someone. parsed, parsâ²ing. to separate (a sentence) into its parts, explaining the grammatical form and function of each of the parts and their interrelation.
In all of my experiences, regardless of programming language used to parse, parsing always means accepting textual data as input and translating it into a format more easily processed by the computer. This is the purpose of syntax, abstract syntax trees, and lexical analyzers. These are all going to involve parsing.