diff --git a/spacy/morphology.pyx b/spacy/morphology.pyx
index fc6a4936b..2ce484d7b 100644
--- a/spacy/morphology.pyx
+++ b/spacy/morphology.pyx
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ cdef class Morphology:
             self.rich_tags[i].id = i
             self.rich_tags[i].name = self.strings[tag_str]
             self.rich_tags[i].morph = 0
+            self.rich_tags[i].pos = UNIV_POS_NAMES[props['pos'].upper()]
             self.reverse_index[self.rich_tags[i].name] = i
         self._cache = PreshMapArray(self.n_tags)