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