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| | About Parse Trees |
 | | VisualText analyzers build and use a single parse tree (or tree, for short) which is a data structure that tracks the patterns that have matched within the input text. |
 | | Building parse trees is similar to the sentence diagramming taught in elementary school. |
 | | The first pass of every analyzer tokenizes the text, that is, it converts a stream of characters to a parse tree in which alphabetic, numeric, whitespace, and punctuation are grouped into units called nodes. |
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