This question came up while I was writing my answer on "conjoined actions." I think what I said covers this question as well.

It's hard to find examples of 'associated action' as a gloss, because it is such a common expression, but here is a good one:

42), a detailed discussion of “prosodic classes of morphemes and their ... type” **expressing the concepts ‘properly, really’, or ‘associated action’ **(pp. ...
www.sil.org:8090/silebr/2006/silebr2006-003



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Note added at 2 hrs (2006-09-09 21:14:48 GMT)
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What just now puzzles me is that your example does not show a second action, so there must be preceding or trailing context that refers to another action.