Abstract
Low-resource languages present enormous NLP opportunities as well as varying degrees of difficulties. The newly released treebank of hand-annotated parts of the Yorùbá Bible provides an avenue for dependency analysis of the Yorùbá language; the application of a new grammar formalism to the language.
In this paper, we discuss our choice of Universal Dependencies, important dependency annotation decisions considered in the creation of the first annotation guidelines for Yorùbá and results of our parsing experiments. We also lay the foundation for future incorporation of other domains with the initial test on Yorùbá Wikipedia articles and highlighted future directions for the rapid expansion of the treebank.