docs: def ner(self):
          """
          Lazy-loads the NER for this word
  
          :getter: Returns the plain string value of the NER tag for the word
          :type: str
  
          """
          if self._ner is None:
              ners = self._element.xpath('NER/text()')
              if len(ners) > 0:
                  self._ner = ners[0]
          return self._ner