Can Japanese Sentence Structure be OVS?


So I was reading from this particular site on Japanese sentence structure and
what dawn to me was, this particular structure seems to be OVS. (object/noun,
verb, subject) There's not a whole lot of explanation behind this, can someone
confirm if I am right?

> Did you hear from her?
>
> 彼女｛かのじょ｝から聞｛き｝きましたか？
>
> 彼女 means “her,” so what you’re saying is “her from” rather than “from her.”




It's not OVS - this sentence is fully verb final.

彼女=から 聞き-まし-た=か

her=from hear-POLITE-PAST=QUESTION

In fact, there's neither subject nor object in this sentence. All there is is
an adverb-like phrase 'from her'. Yes, the Japanese equivalents of English
prepositions come after, rather than before, the noun that they attach to, but
this is a largely separate question. You may be mistaking 'from' (an
adposition or case marker, depending on your analysis) for the verb (which
here is 'hear').

As @keithmaxx answered, there are situations in which sentences _look_ OVS,
but as he's said, this is an information structure question - you can put any
extremely deemphasised afterthought-like topic phrase after the verb, whether
that topic is a subject, or an object, or some other thing. The most basic
word order in Japanese is SOV, but more directly, Japanese's ordering is topic
- focus - verb or focus - verb - afterthought-topic.

