Grammar must not be stumbling block

However, such nuanced grammar rules are neither taught nor insisted upon nowadays in the wordless age of icons.

Besides, these types of ambiguous sentences must be either ignored or read in context or reframed.

Actually, ambiguity could have been avoided by using a relative pronoun. The mother beats her daughter who was drunk or bears her drunken daughter. ( relative pronoun replacing a subject- this is where French, Latin and Sanskrit are class apart). 

Again, according to some archaic rule drunken to be used a adjective before noun and drunk after verb.

I used to teach my students with a simple sentence ' I drink whisky at the bar, in the evenings, with my friends, for pleasure'.

Subject, verb, direct object and all other complements of place, time, purpose etc. and used to elaborate the same sentence into a 200 hundred words info structure spicing it with multitude of additional info, adjectives and elaborate details etc. 

I wish someone had worked on Trimuni Vyakarna of Sanskrit grammar with its conscious effort to embellish the phonetics with svarabhakthi, the logic and sequence of using complements, also the concept of evolution of life and language (which of course has to be known esoterically) in Garbha upanishad etc.

The greatness of English is its flexibility and fluidity which renders communication easier but sometimes creates extreme and unp​​leasant ambiguities as well as feeds lot of material for humour.