> I'm struggling to see where this disagrees with my earlier comment in even the most minor detail.

I was specifically responding to your earlier statement:

>> But there's not really a concept of 'actions' to go with parsing.

And pointing out that even the Dragon Book talks about associating actions with parsing by attaching them to production rules for the parser. You don't seem to accept the literal text of the book, and that's not something I can understand. But that's your choice.