To parse used to mean to explain the syntax and form of a word in a sentence. When in Latin class a million years ago I was told to parse a word I had to say what form it was and how its role in the sentence related to the from.
If I was told to parse "him" in "Give him the ball," I would say it was the objective form, third person singular pronoun, masculine, and objective because it is the indirect object of the verb "give". Similarly, told to parse "nobis" in "Dona nobis pacem", I'd say it was the first person pronoun, plural, dative, dative because it's the indirect object of the imperative verb "dona".
Parsing is all about what words mean in their form and context and how they function in a sentence.
To prevaricate is to equivocate, to straddle with words so that what one says can be taken one way or another, so to suggest the false, to lie. But it's really a kind of lying. Parsing is the way we pierce through and expose prevarication.
This may be playing games, but to the extent that it is, it is not parsing.
/pedantic rant off.
The meaning of words change.. i.e. progressive politics is regressive.. Capitalism creates wealth, socialism uses it up..
LoL..... ( am watching Colts vs Saints..)