What does …て…て mean?


I have the following sentence.

> その白い比いない裸体は、薄暮の背景の前に置かれて輝やいていた 。

I understand the use of ~て in ~ている, but I'm confused by two consecutive verbs
using ~て as in 置かれ **て** 輝やい **て** いた. Should I understand them just as two
separate yet consecutive actions? Or does one complete or modify the meaning
of the other?




> その白い比いない裸体は、薄暮の背景の前に置かれ **て** 輝やいていた。

I'm assuming that 輝やいて is a typo for 輝いて. (Maybe it's a variant spelling, I
don't know).

This て is simply 'and'. So 置かれ **て** 輝やいていた is nothing more mysterious than
"was set and was shining".

You ask about whether one action modifies the other. Many times a clause in
て-form can adverbially modify the following clause, e.g.

> 塀の上に座って食べた

Could be "he sat on the wall and ate" or if you treat the first clause as
adverbial it would be "sitting on the wall, he ate". But I feel it would be a
bit of a stretch to claim this was the case with your example sentence.

The bit that puzzles me is 比いない, which I'm assuming means "without equal". So
altogether we have:

> That matchless white body was placed in front of a twilight background and
> was shining.

Weird sentence. What's the context?




> その白い比いない裸体は、薄暮の背景の前に置かれ **て** 輝やいていた。

I'm assuming that 輝やいて is a typo for 輝いて. (Maybe it's a variant spelling, I
don't know).

This て is simply 'and'. So 置かれ **て** 輝やいていた is nothing more mysterious than
"was set and was shining".

You ask about whether one action modifies the other. Many times a clause in
て-form can adverbially modify the following clause, e.g.

> 塀の上に座って食べた

Could be "he sat on the wall and ate" or if you treat the first clause as
adverbial it would be "sitting on the wall, he ate". But I feel it would be a
bit of a stretch to claim this was the case with your example sentence.

The bit that puzzles me is 比いない, which I'm assuming means "without equal". So
altogether we have:

> That matchless white body was placed in front of a twilight background and
> was shining.

Weird sentence. What's the context?

