Topic-prominence: This type of sentences start with establishing its topic, which often serves as the default one that the rest of the sentence refers to, and they typically employ an object-subjectverb sentence structure (Leimgruber, 2009(Leimgruber, , 2011.
three subtypes of topic-prominence are observed in the Singlish dependency treebank and their annotations are addressed as follows: First, topics framed as clausal arguments at the beginning of the sentence are labeled as "csubj" (clausal subject), as shown by "Drive this car" of (1) in Figure 2, which is consistent with the dependency relations in its Chinese translation.