It was in the Agora of Athens that the great philosopher Socrates questioned the market-goers on their understanding of the meaning of life, attracting a crowd of Athenian youth who enjoyed seeing the more pretentious of their elders made fools of.
Branching definition, a division or subdivision of the stem or axis of a tree, shrub, or other plant. See more.
Thus, much of our segmenting will be done in the form of binary branching --i.e., where segments tend to be broken down into two parts. At the very largest sentence level, this binary divide occurs between the (i) Subject (Topic) and (ii) Predicate (Comment).