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I saw the sentence on the internet like "I had milk and played computer games."
There are two events occurring in the sentence.
I would love to know what is the precedent event and the after event in the sentence above. (What is the previous event? No 1 sentence or No 2 sentence?) Or simultaneous event?
Please, tell me the answer.
The default interpretation of consecutive 'eventive' clauses (clauses which express an action or event rather than a state) is that the events occur in the order they are specified. Since had in this use ( = "consumed") is eventive, we assume that you drank your milk first, and then played computer games.
However, it is also possible that the two events are simultaneous: it may be that you poured a glass of milk and sipped it slowly while you were playing.
In many cases it doesn't matter which sequence occurred. If it does matter, then you will have to say more to make clear which you mean:
I had milk and then played computer games.
I had milk while I played computer games.
You can also use before and after to signify order:
I had milk before I played computer games.
I had milk after I played computer games.
There's no way to know which happened first in the sentence you wrote. However, if it was written as "I had milk and THEN played computer games", then that means you had milk first and played video games afterwards.
In this case, there's no way to be sure what the order of events is, because there's no particular connection between drinking milk and playing computer games. The two things might even have been simultaneous. In the most literal sense, "and" just means the two things on either side of it are being asserted: "It is true that I had milk. It is also true that I played computer games."
However, most speakers have some sort of reason for saying things the way they said them. The fact that the speaker mentioned the milk suggests that they feel the milk is more important or that it came first. Most people are probably more excited about playing computer games than drinking milk, so it seems more likely that the milk came first. On the other hand, it may be that they were just mirroring something that was said to them. For example, if somebody said to me "Did you have milk or did you play computer games?" I might say "I had milk and I played computer games," even if I drank the milk afterwards.
In other situations, you can infer the order because one of the things has to be done first. For example, if I said "I opened the door and walked through it", you know that I must have opened it first, and then walked through. (Unless I'm a Gumby. Which I'm not. Even though my brain hurts.)
playedas adjective, and then have the verbhadmodify the noun phrasemilk and played computer games. As in; I had a glass of milk and some second-hand games.