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I recently started to learn some Japanese, to get some practice I'm trying to
translate and analyse some bits of One Piece, that I'm already familiar with.
Right at the very start there's this sentence:

> 富。名声。力。  
>  かつてこの世の全てを手に入れた男  
>  "海賊王"ゴールドロシア

I deconstructed the middle phrase like this:

> かつて once  
>  この世 の this world + of  
>  全て を everything (object)  
>  手 に hand + in (indirect obj)  
>  入れた "gathered"  
>  男 man (subject?)

But I'm really struggling to figure that 男.

To me the translation should sound something like: "a man once placed/gathered
everything of this world in his hands". But if so, why is the subject placed
after the verb?
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parsing relative-clauses
入れた男 ending a sentence, is 男 the subject
Simple answer: in English a relative clause comes after the noun, but in
Japanese it comes before.

Example:

> A man _**who can dance**_

A man = 男  
can dance = 踊れる

In Japanese, that would be

> _**踊れる**_ 男

Another example:

> These are the flowers _**that I bought**_

These are = これは  
flowers = 花  
I bought = 私が買った

In Japanese, the sentence would be

> これは _ **私が買った**_ 花

So, your example sentence should be interpreted as:

> _**この世の全てを手に入れた**_ 男  
>  The man(男) _**who got everything of the world in his hands**_
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This sentence has two grammatical features

  1. inverted type sentence
  2. lack of verb

The complete one is "海賊王"ゴールドロシアは、かつてこの世の全て、つまり富。名声。力。を手に入れた男です。

To express a simple figure, this sentence makes Aは、Bです。
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