Dependency Tree

448

NameJamila
Genderfemale
Country of OriginSomalia
Destination CountryAustralia

Select a sentence

s-1 Jamila Gordon is a long way from the small village where she was born.
s-2 She fled Somalia before the civil war and came to Australia.
s-3 She had limited English but that didnt stop her from becoming a top tech executive for companies including Qantas.
s-4 The village (where I was born) was very desolate, dusty, we had water in the wells,  Ms Gordon told SBS News.
s-5 My mother was pregnant every year, or she had a baby .
s-6 In the end, she had 16 children.
s-7 Her family moved to Mogadishu to avoid a drought.
s-8 But just before the civil war broke out they were separated.
s-9 Ms Gordon was sent to live with distant relatives in Kenya.
s-10 Through my friends in Kenya, I met an Australian backpacker.
s-11 It was his second day in Kenya and we became friends, she said.
s-12 They would later marry and she would move to Australia.
s-13 She quickly learned English at TAFE and would go on to university in Melbourne to study accounting, before taking an IT elective and falling in love with it.
s-14 But, she says, her first job in Australia was washing dishes, earning five dollars an hour.
s-15 Ms Gordon says IT had some surprising similarities to her first school in Somalia.
s-16 The process I used to memorise the Koran in the village where I was born, was exactly the same as the process of software programming that I used when I was at Latrobe University, Ms Gordon said.
s-17 After university she got a job as a software programmer and climbed her way up the ladder, working in Europe for major companies including IBM.
s-18 She later returned to Australia to become chief information officer at Qantas.
s-19 She is currently based in Sydney and works with smaller tech start-ups, helping them get off the ground.
s-20 Rod Bishop CEO of Jayride, a start-up marketplace for transport hire, says working with Ms Gordon has been a perfect fit.
s-21 There's really not a lot of growth-focused technology people operating at an extremely high level in Australia.
s-22 So it was an absolute pleasure and we saw eye to eye straight away, Mr Bishop said.
s-23 Former professional colleague David Thodey, who is the chairman of the board at CSRIO, says Jamila brings a unique approach to her work.
s-24 She's always had a vision for what she wanted to do, but a great determination and incredible will and drive to get the job done.

Text view • Download CoNNL-U