Sentence:  German trucks stood along the road, the drivers dead in the seats or <WSD>sprawled</WSD> on the ground nearby. ... The woods were dotted with the corpses of German machine gunners still <WSD>sprawled</WSD> grotesquely over their weapons, having given their lives to buy time for Group Mihiel's escape. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  To spread out in a disorderly fashion; to straggle.