How to analyse this sentence's structure?
I read it in the introduction of today. It's at the beginning of a paragraph and it talks about Sherlock. Here it is:
A man for his time, then; for the detective himself was not above bludgeoning cadavers in dissecting rooms or attempting for no little time to transfix a dead pig with a harpoon in a butcher's shop, all in the pursuit of criminal knowledge.
I even don't know whether I understand it correctly. How to analyse this sentence's structure? Thank you! :)

Question

How to analyse this sentence's structure?
I read it in the introduction of  today. It's at the beginning of a paragraph and it talks about Sherlock. Here it is:
A man for his time, then; for the detective himself was not above bludgeoning cadavers in dissecting rooms or attempting for no little time to transfix a dead pig with a harpoon in a butcher's shop, all in the pursuit of criminal knowledge.
I even don't know whether I understand it correctly. How to analyse this sentence's structure? Thank you! :)

Answer

He was a man just right for his time because he would repeatedly cut into a corpse in the dissecting room without thinking too much about whether it was right or wrong or trying for long time to spear a dead pig with a harpoon , and all these just for his quest for criminal knowledge

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