--- title: «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt — the whole book with trees and pragmatics description: The whole of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, chapter by chapter: 2657 sentences, every one with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause, parsed by Mova. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / Hawaiian Historical Legends # «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt The whole of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Project Gutenberg book 66357 (public domain in the USA): 22 chapters, 2657 sentences. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics. Mova parsed them all itself; 0 are also in the tales treebank of release 0.3 and keep their checked tree. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/1/) — Opening — 48 sentences · HAWAIIAN HISTORICAL LEGENDS - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/2/) — Maui the Polynesian — 86 sentences · Among the really ancient ancestors of the Hawaiian chiefs, Maui is one of the most interesting. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/3/) — Maui Seeking Immortality — 57 sentences · The story of Maui seeking immortality for the human race is one of the finest myths in the world. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/4/) — The Water of Life \[1\] — 189 sentences · “The Self-reliant Dragon” is frequently mentioned in the oldest Hawaiian legends. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/5/) — A Viking of the Pacific — 67 sentences · History is frequently legendary. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/6/) — Legendary Home of the Polynesians — 59 sentences · The Hawaiians, like the native residents of many other groups of islands in the Pacific Ocean, have not take… - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/7/) — The Sons of Kii — 206 sentences · Sometime during the fifth or sixth century of the Christian era—according to estimates based on Hawaiian gen… - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/8/) — Paao From Samoa — 236 sentences · Ka-meha-meha is the chief name around which Hawaiian history gathers. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/9/) — Moi-keha, the Restless — 89 sentences · Folklore is sometimes the outgrowth of a sympathy with nature, resulting in nature myths and sometimes it is… - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/10/) — Laa From Tahiti — 69 sentences · When history is told by genealogies, rather than by cycles of years, the time-problem is difficult to solve. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/11/) — First Foreigners — 111 sentences · It is said that the Chinese gave to the clove the name “Thengki”—“the sweet-scented nail.” - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/12/) — Captain Cook — 198 sentences · In response to an appeal from the British Admiralty, Captain Cook left England to enter upon his third voyag… - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/13/) — King Kahahana, About 1773 — 110 sentences · The story of the ivory of Oahu is a tale of treachery and triumph on the part of Kahekili, King of Maui, and… - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/14/) — The Alapa Regiment — 262 sentences · 1776 - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/15/) — In the Days of Kahahana, 1782 — 64 sentences · Paumakua was one of the great voyagers among the ocean-rovers of over eight hundred years ago. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/16/) — The Eight of Oahu — 71 sentences · This is a story of one of the most daring deeds in Hawaiian history. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/17/) — The Red Mouth Gun — 86 sentences · (KA-PU-WAHA-ULAULA) - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/18/) — The Law of the Splintered Paddle — 207 sentences · Would you know the story of the Splintered Paddle? - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/19/) — Last of the Tabu — 89 sentences · To-day the thatched house is a curiosity in the Hawaiian Islands. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/20/) — First Hawaiian Printing — 60 sentences · Foreigners from all over the world called on the Hawaiians and remained with them forty years before the mis… - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/21/) — The First Constitution — 117 sentences · Many subtle influences were at work in the evolution of Hawaiian civilisation. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/22/) — The Hawaiian Flag — 176 sentences · The flag which has floated over the Hawaiian Islands for more than a century is a combination of the “Union…