The world must construe according to its wits; this court must construe according to the law.

This is a new fashionable proverb, which I must construe to you.

Thus, in a sentence such as:
(113) John considers [_S Fred to be too sure of himself]
the italicised Reflexive himself can only be construed with Fred, not with John: this follows from our assumption that non-subject Reflexives must have an antecedent within their own S. Notice, however, that in a sentence such as:
(114) John seems to me [_S — to have perjured himself]
himself must be construed with John.

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