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\section{Concluding discussion}  We simulated a 10pc region of a turbulent molecular cloud, allowing it to evolve under self gravity for 1.25 Myr. While the global structure of the region is still dominated by it's its  turbulent structure, the denser gas has had time to become gravitationally organized. We treated the simulation as an observer might observe the sky; converting the density to an approximate line intensity, selecting filamentary regions for further study, and analysing the line-of-sight velocity information in these regions. Our first main finding is that velocity characteristics very similar to those observed by \citep{2013A&A...554A..55H} form naturally in such a turbulent setup. Individually bound subfilaments display approximately sonic or subsonic dispersions, while the agglomerations that make up the larger filaments have transsonic to mildly supersonic relative motions. While we will further study the detailed evolution of these structures in future work, we speculate that this velocity structure is a relic of the supersonic turbulence that is generally taken as the initial conditions of star formation. The substructured (both in space and velocity) filaments appear without the need for magnetic fields, which are the physical mechanism that immediately spring to mind when considering a filament composed of a bundle of subfilaments.