What syntactic function does 'us' have here?

Solution 1:

The word us is the Direct Object of the verb meet in the Original Poster's sentence.

The syntactic functions (grammatical relations) in the sentence are:

Sentence level:

  • Subject, We;
  • Predicate, need you to meet us at the library at 7 tonight

Within the Predicate:

  • Predicator (Head of the verb phrase), need
  • Direct Object, you
  • Catenative Complement, to meet us at the library at 7 tonight

Within the Catenative Complement:

  • Marker of subordination, to
  • Predicator (Head of the verb phrase), meet
  • Direct Object, us
  • (locative) Adjunct, at the library
  • (temporal) Adjunct, at 7
  • (temporal) Adjunct, tonight