dissect vs parse

dissect and parse both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
dissect	No	No	Yes	No
parse	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, parse is a hyponym of dissect; that is, parse is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than dissect:

dissect: make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; break down into components or essential features
parse: analyze syntactically by assigning a constituent structure to (a sentence)

Other hyponyms of dissect include botanise, botanize.

dissect (verb)	parse (verb)
make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; break down into components or essential features	analyze syntactically by assigning a constituent structure to (a sentence)
cut open or cut apart