universal forwarder trying to parse the data

I have a UF monitoring a couple of files on a AIX box. The UF is forwarding the data to a HF, I verified this in outputs.conf. There are no props.conf present for that input on the UF, only at the HF, and they are obviously not being honored. For some strange reason, I see "Breaking event" and "DateParserVerbose" errors on the UF. How come the parsing phase takes place on the UF and not only the forwarding of the data ? I didn't get this behavior on any of my other UFs. This is not an indexed_extraction.