The first part of the course introduces three aspects of syntactic analysis: the formal aspect, the semantic aspect and the pragmatic aspect. Different syntactic issues are discussed while emphasizing the contribution of the different analysis aspects. The second part of the course focuses on presenting the syntactic structures of verbal sentences in contemporary Hebrew. A semantic method is suggested (based on principles from generative grammar, case grammar, functional grammar, construction grammar and more), which enables predicting the syntactic realization of different contents. The predictions concern the verb valency, the parts of speech of the sentential components and the different syntactic positions of the various semantic role bearers. After setting the frame of syntactic predictions, semantic and pragmatic accounts for opaque realizations of verbal sentences will be systematically presented, considering the verb valency, as well as the linguistic categories and syntactic positions of the realizations of arguments in the different cases.