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Recently I was reading「鶴の笛」by (林芙美子) and came across this sentence:

> 若木の林のなかは、ところまだらに陽の光が煙っていて美しい景色でした。

Am I correct in assuming that this would be read as two clauses joined with
the conjunctive form verb? As In:

> 若木の林のなかは美しいでした= clause 1

> ところまだらに陽の光が煙って= clause 2

Where clause 2 is inside clause 1?

Or would it be read where clause 2 is a clausal predicate that describes a
component of clause 1 in some way? In which case, what is it describing and
why?
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grammar syntax て-form
clauses within clauses
It is simply the following two sentences combined into one with 若木の林のなか kept
as a common topic.

>   1. 若木の林のなかは、ところまだらに陽の光が煙っていました。
>
>   2. 若木の林のなかは、美しい景色でした。
>
>

Since the first describes what the speaker observed and the second what they
thought, the first could be understood as indicating a reason for why the
speaker thought the second was true.
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