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You might use a parser if you realize that the Latin phrase you want to understand has 1 or 2 unknowable word and a bunch of other words you can almost decipher. In the Marcus in silvam vocat example, Marcus looks enough like a name, that you needn’t look it up. In looks like the English word of the same spelling, but what about silvam and vocat If you don’t even know what part of speech they are, a parser will help, since it’s job is to tell you its person, number, tense, mood, etc., if it’s a verb, and its number, case, and gender, if it’s a noun. If you do know the words in question are accusative singular and 3d singular, present active indicative, you probably also know that the noun silvam translates as ‘forest/wood’ and the verb vocat as ‘calls’. At any rate, a parser and or dictionary can help with little bits of Latin like this.

Excerpt Taken From http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/latinlearning/f/TranslateLatin.htm

Topic – English To Latin Translation