diff --git a/spacy/pipeline/pipes.pyx b/spacy/pipeline/pipes.pyx
index 1d4eeadce..1f4dd4253 100644
--- a/spacy/pipeline/pipes.pyx
+++ b/spacy/pipeline/pipes.pyx
@@ -1001,7 +1001,7 @@ cdef class DependencyParser(Parser):
 
     @property
     def postprocesses(self):
-        return [nonproj.deprojectivize, merge_subtokens]
+        return [nonproj.deprojectivize]
 
     def add_multitask_objective(self, target):
         if target == "cloze":