You are mixing MATLAB and MuPAD syntax. Also ';' or a linefeed is missing. Try
>> syms x y
>> piecewise(x<=y,1+y, x>y,1+x)
ans =
piecewise(x <= y, y + 1, y < x, x + 1)
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