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I'm stuck with the construction of 居る/いる in the following sentence (Botchan,
I)

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> 小学校【しょうがっこう】に居【い】る時分【じぶん】学校【がっこう】の二階【にかい】から飛【と】び降【お】りて一週間【いっしゅうかん】ほど腰【こし】を抜【ぬ】かした事【こと】がある。

My translation (excuse my poor English) :

> **Being** at the elementary school, it happened that I jumped from the
> second story of the school, my back broken for about a week.

I understand this 居る as if it was a
[determiner](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Determiner), linked to the word
"時分". But I can't figure out how 居る時分 is linked to the sentence : does 居る
somehow introduce 小学校に ( _confer_ my translation) ?
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verbs syntax
いる connected to a proposition?
It is a description of the period of time when this happened. "During the time
I was in elementary school". 小学校に居る modifies 時分. During which period did this
happen? During the period when I was in school.
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