Curious how this would work translating between a language like German where verbs sometimes are placed at the very end. Or even if clauses make things complicated. You wouldn't know the meaning for a long time -- or would you guess and amend?
To make this concrete (DE <-> ZH) with EN provided for clarity, apologies for errors:
[EN] I didn't go out last evening, because my mother had warned me about feral cats on the street.
[FROM ZH] 昨晚我不去出因为我妈妈警告我街上有野猫。
[TO DE] Gestern Abend bin ich nicht rausgegangen, weil meine Mutter mich vor Wildkatzen auf der Straße gewarnt hatte.
In that German sentence, the key verb in the second clause "to warn [warnen]" happens nearly at the end, but in the beginning in Chinese [警告].
So if I'm halfway through the second clause of my Chinese sentence, ...因为我妈妈警告我, the simultaneous translation in German is "weil meine Mutter [.....]" and then all at once "mich vor Wildkatzen auf der Straße gewarnt hatte" when the Chinese sentence finally ends.
I suppose you could split the clause again to give some "early" meaning in the sentence in real-time: "weil meine Mutter mich davor gewarnt hatte, dass [...]" and then the bit about the wild cats when it shows up in the Chinese sentence, but I'm sure you can construct more pathological examples so my question still stands.