diff --git a/spacy/syntax/parser.pyx b/spacy/syntax/parser.pyx
index 15097e784..59eb1f859 100644
--- a/spacy/syntax/parser.pyx
+++ b/spacy/syntax/parser.pyx
@@ -1,13 +1,11 @@
 # cython: infer_types=True
 # cython: profile=True
 # coding: utf-8
-from __future__ import unicode_literals
+from __future__ import unicode_literals, print_function
 
 from collections import Counter
 import ujson
 
-from chainer.functions.activation.softmax import Softmax as ChainerSoftmax
-
 from cupy.cuda.stream import Stream
 import cupy