Held By
Seed
Seed names Ground as relation-to-Ground becomes carryable and recoverable within what begins. It is the Ground-level condition that holds Relation before the dependency spine begins.
Where Clean holds Relation at the first order — invisibly, becoming readable only when it fails — Seed holds Relation prior to order altogether. Seed is not produced by the chain, not inside the dependency spine, and not an invariant at any order level. Ground is the acknowledged prior; Seed is the return-side of that prior becoming present within what grows from it.
Fabric is the recognition condition. The chain does not produce Seed at its close; it runs far enough for what was already nested within Relation to become visible as Fabric.
Places
Seed places the Ground-level condition that holds Relation before Clean holds it at the first order. Ground and Seed together name the first in/out bifurcation around Relation: Ground as the acknowledged prior, Seed as the generative return nested within Relation from its start. Neither is inside the dependency spine. Both are source-side conditions around it, while Relation remains the primitive from which the dependency spine begins.
Holds
Seed is held by Ground — present before the chain begins, requiring only the acknowledged prior in order to hold.
Pairs
Seed pairs with Ground. Ground names the acknowledged prior; Seed names that prior as relation-to-Ground becomes carryable and recoverable from within the return.
Traces
Nests
Seed nests at Ground level, prior to Clean, holding Relation before the first order operates.
Reads
Seed becomes recognisable in Fabric — where the whole carries before each thread has to be separately read. In Fabric, what was nested within Relation from the start is present in the holding without needing to be traced back to. This is not Seed being produced; it is Seed being recovered.
Carries
Nothing. Carrying is a spine operation and Seed is prior to the spine. Seed holds Relation and is recovered in Fabric, not transmitted through the chain.