diff --git a/lib/ansible/parsing/plugin_docs.py b/lib/ansible/parsing/plugin_docs.py
index a1f16106ccf..10111472e35 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/parsing/plugin_docs.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/parsing/plugin_docs.py
@@ -127,6 +127,7 @@ def read_docstring_from_python_file(filename, verbose=True, ignore_errors=True):
     """
 
     data = _init_doc_dict()
+
     try:
         with open(filename, 'rb') as b_module_data:
             M = ast.parse(b_module_data.read())
@@ -141,8 +142,8 @@ def read_docstring_from_python_file(filename, verbose=True, ignore_errors=True):
                         display.warning("Building documentation, failed to assign id for %s on %s, skipping" % (t, filename))
                         continue
 
-                    if theid in DOCSTRING_TO_VAR:
-                        varkey = DOCSTRING_TO_VAR[theid]
+                    if theid in string_to_vars:
+                        varkey = string_to_vars[theid]
                         if isinstance(child.value, ast.Dict):
                             data[varkey] = ast.literal_eval(child.value)
                         else:
diff --git a/lib/ansible/plugins/loader.py b/lib/ansible/plugins/loader.py
index 9c0662a164a..8c0bf0207a0 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/plugins/loader.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/plugins/loader.py
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ from ansible.module_utils.common._collections_compat import Mapping
 from ansible.module_utils.compat.importlib import import_module
 from ansible.module_utils.six import string_types
 from ansible.parsing.utils.yaml import from_yaml
+from ansible.parsing.yaml.loader import AnsibleLoader
 from ansible.plugins import get_plugin_class, MODULE_CACHE, PATH_CACHE, PLUGIN_PATH_CACHE
 from ansible.utils.collection_loader import AnsibleCollectionConfig, AnsibleCollectionRef
 from ansible.utils.collection_loader._collection_finder import _AnsibleCollectionFinder, _get_collection_metadata
diff --git a/lib/ansible/utils/plugin_docs.py b/lib/ansible/utils/plugin_docs.py
index 6ce5cea4bc5..f381ac0a65a 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/utils/plugin_docs.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/utils/plugin_docs.py
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ from ansible.release import __version__ as ansible_version
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError, AnsibleParserError, AnsiblePluginNotFound
 from ansible.module_utils.six import string_types
 from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native
-from ansible.parsing.plugin_docs import read_docstring
+from ansible.parsing.plugin_docs import read_docstring, string_to_vars
 from ansible.module_utils.common._collections_compat import MutableMapping, MutableSet, MutableSequence
 
 from ansible.parsing.yaml.loader import AnsibleLoader
@@ -234,7 +234,7 @@ def get_docstring(filename, fragment_loader, verbose=False, ignore_errors=False,
     data = read_docstring(filename, verbose=verbose, ignore_errors=ignore_errors)
 
     for section in FRAGMENTS:
-        key = DOCSTRING_TO_VAR[section]
+        key = string_to_vars[section]
 
         if data.get(key, False):
             # add fragments to documentation
@@ -281,12 +281,7 @@ def get_versioned_doclink(path):
         return '(unable to create versioned doc link for path {0}: {1})'.format(path, to_native(ex))
 
 
-<<<<<<< HEAD
 def _find_adjacent(path, plugin, extensions):
-=======
-def get_pymodule_docs(pymodule, path=None, section=None, floader=None):
-    ''' faster method that gets docs from loaded python module '''
->>>>>>> af01693d20 (add path to keep it 'relative')
 
     adjacent = Path(path)