Okay, so lately I came up with this little idea about removing ambiguity from sentences by adding brackets in different places. I was curious to know if anyone has done this before, or if there is something similar to this in linguistics or philosophy of language or whatever. I kinda doubt that this is more useful than just re-explaining the sentence, but it's fun to play around with.

Take the ambiguous, "I saw a man on a hill with a telescope."

Possible Meanings
1. “I saw a man, who was on a hill and had a telescope.”
2. “I used a telescope to see a man who was on a hill.”
3. “I was on a hill, and saw a man who had a telescope.”
4. “I was on a hill, and used a telescope to see a man.”
5. “I saw a man, who was on a hill, and the hill had a telescope on it.”
6. “I saw a man, while I was on a hill which had a telescope on it.”

Simplified versions of the above list
1. Man on hill, man has telescope.
2. I have telescope, man on hill.
3. I'm on a hill, man has telescope.
4. I'm on a hill, I use telescope to see man.
5. Man on hill, telescope on hill, I see both.
6. I'm on a hill, telescope is on a hill, I see man.

Marked out with ambiguity brackets
1. I saw (a [man] on a hill) [with a telescope].
2. (I saw) [a man on a hill] (with a telescope).
3. (I) saw [a man] (on a hill) [with a telescope].
4. (I) [saw] a man (on a hill) [with a telescope].
5. I saw a (man on a [hill]) [with a telescope].
6. (I) saw a man (on a [hill with a telescope]).

Parentheses "connect" phrases, as do brackets. So the final sentence, (I) connects to being on the hill, and the inner brackets carve out the phrase "hill with a telescope," which, in isolation, means that the hill has the telescope. Sentence 5, on the other hand, uses parentheses to carve out the phrase "man on a hill" to show that the man is on the hill, and connects "hill" to "with a telescope" to show that the hill has the telescope.

I'm sure that linguistics has far more accurate/sophisticated ways of removing ambiguity, but I wanted to know if any of them work like this, or at least, roughly like this.