HOW TO PARSE ADJECTIVES.
What to tell in parsing.
170. Since adjectives have no gender, person, or case, and very few have number, the method of parsing is simple.
In parsing an adjective, tell—
(1) The class and subclass to which it belongs.
(2) Its number, if it has number.
(3) Its degree of comparison, if it can be compared.
(4) What word or words it modifies.
MODEL FOR PARSING.
These truths are not unfamiliar to your thoughts.
These points out what truths, therefore demonstrative; plural number, having a singular, this; cannot be compared; modifies the word truths.
Unfamiliar describes truths, therefore descriptive; not inflected for number; compared by prefixing more and most; positive degree; modifies truths.