Present participle in an past continuous sentence with verbial meaning then the present sentence with adverbial meaning of past continuous sentence.
I leaned against an old tree on the hill, sitting there in peace.
Is it possible to treat “sitting” as present participle with adverbial meaning, or as past–continuous tense?
To clarify, I want to show them in example there
I was leaning against a tree on the hill while sitting.
I
had taken up lying against a tree but I was sitting down. What happened?
What does “sitting” in the original sentence ascribe to the overall meaning of the sentence?
How can I learn from our mistakes?
I was sitting up against a tree on a hill. I think I missed this last part of the movie. To me, I think that leaning is implied…..compared to; I was sitting up against a tree on the hill yesterday morning? If sitting on a tree, leaning is implied.