--- title: Maternal health in rural Uganda lags behind national policy targets… — Uganda · tree and pragmatics description: Maternal health in rural Uganda lags behind national policy targets and the Millennium Development Goals, with geographical inaccessibility, lack of transport and financial burdens identified as key demand-side constraints to accessing maternal health services; as such, interventions like intermedia --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Uganda/390/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [wikipedia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/) / [en](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/) / [Uganda](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Uganda/) / 390 # Uganda, sentence 390 From Wikipedia, [«Uganda»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uganda), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too. Maternal health in rural Uganda lags behind national policy targets and the Millennium Development Goals, with geographical inaccessibility, lack of transport and financial burdens identified as key demand-side constraints to accessing maternal health services; as such, interventions like intermediate transport mechanisms have been adopted as a means to improve women's access to maternal health care services in rural regions of the country. **Who acts:** a · **What happens:** identify, access, adopt, mean, improve, lack · **To what, where:** financial burdens, maternal health services, Maternal health, access, transport · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Uganda». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (a), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = wikipedia:Uganda:390 # text = Maternal health in rural Uganda lags behind national policy targets and the Millennium Development Goals, with geographical inaccessibility, lack of transport and financial burdens identified as key demand-side constraints to accessing maternal health services; as such, interventions like intermediate transport mechanisms have been adopted as a means to improve women's access to maternal health care services in rural regions of the country. 1 Maternal maternal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 health health NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 rural rural ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 5 Uganda Uganda PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 lags lag NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nmod _ _ 7 behind behind ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 national national ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 9 policy policy NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 targets target NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 13 Millennium Millennium PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 14 Development Development PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 Goals Goal PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 10 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 geographical geographical ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 inaccessibility inaccessibility NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 lack lack NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 appos _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 transport transport NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 financial financial ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 burdens burden NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 conj _ _ 27 identified identify VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 acl _ _ 28 as as ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 29 key key ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 30 demand demand NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 31 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 constraints constraint NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ _ 34 to to SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 35 accessing access VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 27 advcl _ _ 36 maternal maternal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 37 health health NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 38 services service NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 ; ; PUNCT : _ 43 punct _ _ 40 as as ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 41 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 43 interventions intervention NOUN NNS Number=Plur 50 nsubj:pass _ _ 44 like like ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 45 intermediate intermediate ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 amod _ _ 46 transport transport NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 compound _ _ 47 mechanisms mechanism NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 nmod _ _ 48 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 50 aux _ _ 49 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 50 aux:pass _ _ 50 adopted adopt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 51 as as SCONJ IN _ 53 mark _ _ 52 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 53 nsubj _ _ 53 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 50 advcl _ _ 54 to to PART TO _ 55 mark _ _ 55 improve improve VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 53 ccomp _ _ 56 women woman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 58 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 57 's 's PART POS _ 56 case _ _ 58 access access NOUN NN Number=Sing 55 obj _ _ 59 to to ADP IN _ 63 case _ _ 60 maternal maternal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 63 amod _ _ 61 health health NOUN NN Number=Sing 62 compound _ _ 62 care care NOUN NN Number=Sing 63 compound _ _ 63 services service NOUN NNS Number=Plur 55 obl _ _ 64 in in ADP IN _ 66 case _ _ 65 rural rural ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 66 amod _ _ 66 regions region NOUN NNS Number=Plur 63 nmod _ _ 67 of of ADP IN _ 69 case _ _ 68 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 69 det _ _ 69 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 66 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 70 . . PUNCT . _ 50 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **identify** | participle | | financial burdens *not said here* | | | | as key side constraints | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent as constraint=Attribute | | 2 | **access** | gerund | | maternal health services | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **adopt** | present · perfect · passive | | Maternal health in rural Uganda lags behind national policy targets the Millennium Development Goals and geographical inaccessibility | | | | such interventions like intermediate transport mechanisms *nsubj:pass* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 4 | **mean** | present | a | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **improve** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | | women's access | | | | to maternal care services in rural regions of the country | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent access=Patient | | 6 | **lack** | | | transport and financial burdens | | | | | nom lack «state transitive»: of=patient | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Uganda», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0. - ← previous: [sentence 389](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Uganda/389/) - next →: [sentence 391](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Uganda/391/) - ↑ back to [Uganda](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Uganda/)