Hi there, I realize I'm about a year late to the party, but in case this is still an issue, or if someone else comes to this from googling the parsing error as i did i wanted to still comment.
The ES parser cannot handle white-space, so if there's any white-space in the file you'll get this error.
I opened my file in vim, after trying to escape all the things, quote the descriptions, etc, and what finally got it to import was running :%s/\ //g after replacing my spaces in the description with underscores.
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