How to parse the following sentence containing phrases that look like direct quoted relative clauses?


I cannot parse the following sentence.

> 自分の知る子供たちは、「無理だと知っていて」夢を語るが、日本の小学生は、「実現できると思って」夢を追う。だから「夢が違う」と言う。

As far as I know,

  * 「」is used for direct quote. For example, 彼が「走ってください」と言いました。He said, "please run".

  * relative clause cannot be ended with て form. It means that「無理だと知っていて」夢 is ungrammatical. To fix it, I think I need to insert という so it becomes 「無理だと知っていて」という夢. However, this makes the whole sentence difficult to understand.

  * If 「無理だと知っていて」can be freely moved, the sentence becomes

> 自分の知る子供たちは、夢を語る「無理だと知っていて」が、日本の小学生は、夢を追う「実現できると思って」。だから「夢が違う」と言う。

Why did the author need to use 「」?

Generally, how to parse the above sentence?




The first two pairs of brackets (`「」`) are not used to quote something, but to
emphasize the contents. Read as if the contents were in italics in English
sentences. Japanese people like to use brackets a lot for this purpose.

Related questions:

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  * [「」 don't seem to be 'quotation marks' in news article titles, what do they mean?](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/29341/5010)

Only the brackets in the last sentence (「夢が違う」) is quotative.

無理だと知っていて means "knowing it's impossible", modifying 語る kind of like an
adverb. You must know how this works (te-form working as the modifier of the
following verb), [because you asked it
recently](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/34647/5010).

> 自分の知る子供たちは、「無理だと知っていて」夢を語るが、日本の小学生は、「実現できると思って」夢を追う。  
>  Kids I know talk about their dreams _knowing they're impossible_ , but
> Japanese elementary school kids pursue their dreams _thinking they can be
> achieved_.




The first two pairs of brackets (`「」`) are not used to quote something, but to
emphasize the contents. Read as if the contents were in italics in English
sentences. Japanese people like to use brackets a lot for this purpose.

Related questions:

  * [Do Japanese people use quotation marks for emphasis?](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/21274/5010)
  * [「」 don't seem to be 'quotation marks' in news article titles, what do they mean?](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/29341/5010)

Only the brackets in the last sentence (「夢が違う」) is quotative.

無理だと知っていて means "knowing it's impossible", modifying 語る kind of like an
adverb. You must know how this works (te-form working as the modifier of the
following verb), [because you asked it
recently](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/34647/5010).

> 自分の知る子供たちは、「無理だと知っていて」夢を語るが、日本の小学生は、「実現できると思って」夢を追う。  
>  Kids I know talk about their dreams _knowing they're impossible_ , but
> Japanese elementary school kids pursue their dreams _thinking they can be
> achieved_.

