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?

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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.

Answered on March 9, 2021.
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