diff --git a/crf_pos/pos_tagger/meta_tagger.py b/crf_pos/pos_tagger/meta_tagger.py
index 075af25..faa0589 100644
--- a/crf_pos/pos_tagger/meta_tagger.py
+++ b/crf_pos/pos_tagger/meta_tagger.py
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ def __getitem__(self, item: Union[list, str]) -> List[Tuple[str, str]]:
         :param item:    An input text/list, the preferred input type is string.
         :return:        A List of tuples including a word and its part of speech.
         """
-        if isinstance(item, str):   item = self.norm.normalize(item)
+        if isinstance(item, str):   item = self.norm.normalize(item).split()
         return self.parse([item])[0]
 
     ## ToDo get_resources.