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I think there is a kind of a split. We've talked about this before, that the Syrian Orthodox, and COE were seperate jurisdictions etc. Before 431 etc. thus not split.
I would submit that a lot of confusion I think comes from the fact that all of Christianity in the persian empire has the same Apostolic starting point. Edessa Turkey. It doesn't matter if you here about the Armenian church, or the Church of the East or even the Syrian Orthodox church. They all claim the arrival of Addai (thadeus) and Bartholemew as a big milestone in their founding. (The SOC actually is more western than the COE, where they actually do claim Antioch, even though Edessa ends up becoming where there head quarters is).
Anyway while things politically or jurisdictionally may not have been broken down into an east and west Syriac jurisdictions, prior to 431. You have Edessa as the main focal point, of where many things originate. The later so called "nestorian" seminaries etc. that were at Nisbis, I thought came originally from Edessa etc.
And besides having some of the same origons. I wold suspect that prior to 431 that east and western churches were in communion and communication with each other, in the same way that the Latin, Greek, Egyptian etc. churches were having similar relations during pre and post nicene times.
So in the aspect "OF being One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church" (being in fellowship with one another), I would suspect that they would be "One Church". But not in the sense, of them being formally united politically and religiously into one body/denomination and that the Nestorian Controversy ends up being something that splits them into two distinct entities.