I'd like to see how a statistical analysis machine would handle that.
Might I suggest Jurafsky & Martin, Speech and Language Processing? It's a standard introductory textbook in the field.
After that, there are, of course, thousands of papers available in sources such as arXiv and the ACM DL on the topic of handling ambiguous natural-language parses with statistical techniques. Research in the area goes back at least as far as Shannon.
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