Could not get unknown property ‘compile’ for object of type org.gradle.api.internal.artifacts.dsl.dependencies.DefaultDependencyHandler

Just Change your line breaks , it will solve your problem

dependencies {
    compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:23.4.0'
    compile 'com.parse.bolts:bolts-tasks:1.3.0'
    compile 'com.parse:parse-android:1.13.0'
    compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services:9.2.1'
}

break line after each dependencies.

See answer here : https://stackoverflow.com/a/33991915/4985413