For a Japanese sentence is a single rounded whole, not a bunch of facts loosely tied together.

It is as much a unit in its composition as a novel or a drama is with us.

Such artistic periods, however, are anything but convenient.

In their nicely contrived involution they strikingly resemble those curious nests of Chinese boxes, where entire shells lie closely packed one within another,--a very marvel of ingenious and perfectly unnecessary construction.

One must be antipodally comprehensive to entertain the idea; as it is, the idea entertains us.
On the same general plan, the nouns precede the verbs in the sentence, and are in every way the more important parts of speech.