Je fais le lit après que tu t'es levé

Question

Je fais le lit après que tu t'es levé. I'm making the bed after you've got [US: gotten] up.
 
I'm a bit confused by the meaning of this sentence (the temporality). If it refers to a one time thing (not a habit) then is it referring to future actions ? i.e. is it an equivalent of "I will make the bed once you have gotten up ?"  Or does it mean that I am right now doing the bed but I have started some time in the past after you have already gotten out of bed ?

Céline Pickard · Accepted Answer

Bonjour Mark,
Here, it cannot refer to a future action with Le Passé Composé in the subordinate clause ("après que tu t'es levé") and Le Présent in the main clause (which, here, refers to a "fact").
If you wish to express a clear future intention, both verbs should eb conjugated in Le Futur:

Je ferai le lit après que tu te lèveras.

I hope this is helpful.
Bonne journée !

Stephanie Ochoa · Answer

I tried submitting an error/question about the distinction the 
article is trying to draw here, but whatever edit was made, I'm still 
confused. I already read the entire Q&A here, to no avail.Is it possibly an issue of UK vs US English? (I'm American.)I
 get that the distinction is intended to be "habitual vs specific point 
in time," but I just can't imagine a situation in which I would say the 
sequence of words, "I'm making the bed after you've gotten up." It doesn't make sense. As
 Mark's post said, the closest this comes to 
sounding reasonable (but still not natural/fully) is if it were meant to
 mean, "I'm going to make the bed once you've gotten up," but I know 
that French would use the future tense in both clauses there.Can
 someone try again to describe what this sentence is trying to say / 
what it's for / what sort of story it would work in? Is it meant to mean
 something like, "I'm making the bed now that you have gotten up?"

Alan Graham · Answer

It's not a UK/US difference, I'm British and I don't understand the sentence either.

In my opinion, the original sentence and translation that Julian queried was correct, but for some reason it got changed to make this habitual/specific distinction that doesn't really work. There should just be one sentence, which refers to a habitual action:

Je prends mon petit-déjeuner après que tu t'es levé = I have my breakfast after you get up.