Rule-based parsing models for minority or low-resourced languages -- any suggestions?

Hi, everyone! I am doing my PhD in Language Studies. I do not have a full tech background since I am more of a linguist that dabbled a little bit on NLP, so would like your help, suggestions or any recommendation. I am currently working on creating Universal Dependencies (UD) treebanks for minority languages, then using these UD treebanks to model parsers. I am planning to use rule-based parsing because I wouldn't have enough resources for data to run other models. One of the professors told me I could also use statistical methods, but if I am more comfortable with rule-based parsing, then I s