Universal Dependencies (UD) have garnered notable focus for the systematic assessment of cross-lingual methods in the task of dependency parsing. In this article, we present our initiative toward the development of a dependency treebank for the resource-poor language: Nepali, within the framework of UD. To this end, we have mapped the Nepali treebank to the UD scheme. A detailed mapping procedure tailored to meet the requirements of the Nepali language has been outlined with examples. Experiments on dependency parsing with the UD-mapped Nepali treebank achieved UAS and LAS scores of 78 and 63.1, respectively.