diff --git a/examples/morphgnt/verbs.py b/examples/morphgnt/verbs.py
index <HASH>..<HASH> 100755
--- a/examples/morphgnt/verbs.py
+++ b/examples/morphgnt/verbs.py
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 from domain import *
 
 
-greek_forms = parse("forms.txt", ("form", "pos", "parse", "lemma"))
+greek_forms = parse_cols("forms.txt", ("form", "pos", "parse", "lemma"))
 process(greek_forms, [
     PartCount(TENSE),
     PartCount(TENSE, given=INFINITIVE),
diff --git a/qmorph.py b/qmorph.py
index <HASH>..<HASH> 100644
--- a/qmorph.py
+++ b/qmorph.py
@@ -6,10 +6,9 @@ class T:
         self.__dict__.update(data_dict)
 
 
-def parse(filename, field_tuple):
+def parse_cols(filename, field_tuple):
     for line in open(filename):
-        s = line.strip().split()
-        yield T(dict(zip(field_tuple, s)))
+        yield T(dict(zip(field_tuple, line.strip().split())))
 
 
 def parse_dict(filename):
renamed parse to parse_cols now we have more than one type