error jena kotlin with gradle

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Running https://github.com/bjonnh/kotlin_jena from Idea works.

But trying a:
$ gradle clean build
:clean
:compileKotlin
:compileJava NO-SOURCE
:processResources NO-SOURCE
:classes UP-TO-DATE
:jar
:assemble
:compileTestKotlin NO-SOURCE
:compileTestJava NO-SOURCE
:processTestResources NO-SOURCE
:testClasses UP-TO-DATE
:test NO-SOURCE
:check UP-TO-DATE
:build

BUILD SUCCESSFUL in 3s
3 actionable tasks: 3 executed
$ java -jar build/libs/querier.jar
Hello !
SLF4J: Failed to load class "org.slf4j.impl.StaticLoggerBinder".
SLF4J: Defaulting to no-operation (NOP) logger implementation
SLF4J: See http://www.slf4j.org/codes.html#StaticLoggerBinder for further details.
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
	at org.apache.jena.query.ARQ.isTrue(ARQ.java:640)
	at org.apache.jena.sparql.lang.ParserBase.<init>(ParserBase.java:291)
	at org.apache.jena.sparql.lang.SPARQLParserBase.<init>(SPARQLParserBase.java:43)
	at org.apache.jena.sparql.lang.sparql_11.SPARQLParser11Base.<init>(SPARQLParser11Base.java:22)
	at org.apache.jena.sparql.lang.sparql_11.SPARQLParser11.<init>(SPARQLParser11.java:4974)
	at org.apache.jena.sparql.lang.ParserSPARQL11.perform(ParserSPARQL11.java:91)
	at org.apache.jena.sparql.lang.ParserSPARQL11.parse$(ParserSPARQL11.java:52)
	at org.apache.jena.sparql.lang.SPARQLParser.parse(SPARQLParser.java:34)
	at org.apache.jena.query.QueryFactory.parse(QueryFactory.java:147)
	at org.apache.jena.query.QueryFactory.create(QueryFactory.java:79)
	at org.apache.jena.query.QueryFactory.create(QueryFactory.java:52)
	at org.apache.jena.query.QueryFactory.create(QueryFactory.java:40)
	at demo.MainKt.main(Main.kt:13)