Re: HeadFirst

1.

> "I have a brother, Steve."
> Me with brother Steve.
Well, so far, I don't think you've restricted your parts of speech
to nouns & connectives.   Is "me" a noun, or a pronoun?    Does
"me" describe the whole HP, or does it name the topic?

To get rid of the pronouns, you may want to just name
everybody, and compound the names with the names of
conversational roles for first and second person:

Jim-speaker with brother Steve.   (I have a brother, Steve.)

The name is necessary:   otherwise, you'd have ...

Speaker with brother Steve.        (A/the speaker has a brother,
Steve.)   Which speaker?

2.

> Having with agent me and patient brother with name Steve.
Having a brother is not an act, and "me" is not an agent in this
sentence, nor is "brother" a patient.

3.

> "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth."
> Creation with time beginning and agent God and patient
heaven with
> number plural and patient earth.
> I just noticed that there's a big ambiguity in this grammar.
It's not
> clear except from context that "and patient earth" is supposed
to
> coordinate with "and patient heaven" rather than with "with
number
> plural."
I'm not sure that the ambiguity you've named is that big.
There's no law against context resolving ambiguities in
natlangs.   The identification of "earth" as another patient, and
the meaning of "earth" as opposed to "heaven," is probably
sufficient to let the listener know that "earth" is not just
another attribute of the heavens.

But I don't think you have a sufficiently clear way of indicating
which attributive nouns describe which other nouns.   You
could start by specifying that "and" connects constituents of
equal rank, whereas "with" introduces an attributive NP
associated with the previous NP.   You might also add "then"
to your repertoire of connectives, which could shorten some
sentences considerably by allowing the two heads to be
together in chronological order in one clause.

If I'm all wet, here's hoping someone says why.

BTW, it is most important to try your grammar out on complex
sentences.

He who lives by the sword dies by the sword.

Becoming with life then death with human-agent and
sword-instrument.

DV betrayed and murdered your father.

Betrayal and Murder with DV agent and father-patient with
this listener-son.

(Wow!   I'm beginning to enjoy writing like this!   No joke, just fact.)

4.    Getting rid of pronouns won't be easy and may not be desireable.   How
about variables?  e.g.   "Anyone who goes to school will need pencils."
Try that in Headfirst.


Writing-source-Jim