One fact goes in; a great many arguments come out. Turn the four dials — who appears as the actor, which words carry the fact, how much confidence is claimed, and which clause gets the word although — and read what happens in the panel on the right. Nothing about the world changes. Everything about what a reader can conclude does.
Four dials, one fixed fact
The event — locked; this never changes
What happened
Which event — try all three
Dial 1 · The actor — who occupies the subject slot?
Dial 2 · Diction — connotation, not denotation
Dial 3 · Confidence — hedge to boost
Over-hedgedPlainOver-boosted
Dial 4 · Subordination — which clause is the point?
Ten-second experiment. Set dial 4 to each of its two although positions in turn and read the sentence aloud both times. Identical facts. One is a defence and one is an indictment, and nothing changed but which clause got subordinated. Subordination is an argument.