Parsing is the resolving or explaining of a sentence, or of some related word or words, according to the definitions and rules of grammar. Parsing is to grammar what ciphering is to arithmetic.
A Praxis is a method of exercise, or a form of grammatical resolution, showing the learner how to proceed. The word is Greek, and literally signifies action, doing, practice, or formal use.
PRAXIS I—ETYMOLOGICAL.
_In the first Praxis, it is required of the pupil—merely to distinguish and define the different parts of speech.
The definitions to be given in the First Praxis, are one, and only one, for each word, or part of speech. Thus_:—
EXAMPLE PARSED.
"The patient ox submits to the yoke, and meekly performs the labour required of him."
The is an article. 1.[132] An article is the word the, an, or a, which we put before nouns to limit their signification.
Patient is an adjective. 1. An adjective is a word added to a noun or pronoun, and generally expresses quality.
Ox is a noun. 1. A noun is the name of any person, place, or thing, that can be known or mentioned.