Sentence:  From the point of view of syntactic analysis the head word in the <WSD>statement</WSD> is the predicator has broken , and from the point of view of meaning it would seem that the trouble centers in the breaking ; but dominant stress will be assigned to broken only in rather exceptional versions of the sentence . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  a message that is stated or declared; a communication (oral or written) setting forth particulars or facts etc