It is a participle,
A participle is a word that is formed from a verb and used as an adjective.
In this case, the verb is "to break" but in this case is used to describe the staircase as broken
1. a modern day conflict that could exist between two groups of teens is an argument where each person feels as though they’re the victim in a situation. the conflict could exist between two members and the others are defending each side. ex/ a member of group A’s friend has been mean to a member of group B’s. B feels as though it’s unfair group A continued to be friends with that person even after they hurt them. Group A’s is upset because they feel as though they shouldn’t have to unfriend that person just because they hurt someone else.
I have answered this question once before, here is the answer from that question: Elisa "cries like an old woman" because she is absolutely crushed because she realizes that she has been duped by the tinker and that he was not interested in her chrysanthemums at all. He had only pretended to be interested in Elisa talking about them in order to get some business from her (some pots to mend). What had been an awakening of emotions for Elisa was now a huge disappointment. Elisa realizes that she simply cannot be anyone different from who she is on her little farm with her husband. She is "trapped" there and will never be able to get her husband to see the aesthetic beauty of her flowers that she loves so much.
The purpose of the following scene is (A) to show that all men are mortal and therefore Ivan Ilyich, a man, must die.
The syllogism draws a conclusion that since Caius is a man, and men are mortal, they (men, i.e. mortals) must all die.
Caption is the best indicator of a nonfiction text.