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142 Chapter 6. The temporal structure of discourse(169) Pierre e n t r a. MariePierre enter.pst.PFV.3sg. Marie“Pierre entered. Marie phoned.”t é l é p h o n a.phone.pst.PFV.3sgThe second sentence of (169) is interpreted in the context of the first sentence.Pushing and pulling accounts differ with respect to the representationthey assign to the first sentence. We are familiar with (170) (= (46)), therepresentation on the pulling account of Kamp et al.:(170)n e 1 t 1 t 2p enter(e 1 )τ(e 1 ) = t 1t 1 ⊆ t 2t 2 ≺ nPushing accounts, on the other hand, let the first sentence introduce an additionaltime compared to pulling accounts, viz. a time t 3 immediately followingthe time of the eventuality t 1 :(171)n e 1 t 1 t 2 t 3p enter(e 1 )τ(e 1 ) = t 1t 1 ⊆ t 2t 1 ⊃≺ t 3t 2 ≺ nThe two accounts also differ with respect to the preliminary representationof the second sentence. The pulling account of Kamp et al. gives (172), mypushing account (173):(172)e 2 t 3 t 4m phone(e 2 )τ(e 2 ) = t 3t 3 ⊆ t 4t 4 ≺ nt 5ρ(t 5 ,t 4 )