The benefactive construction is a syntactic structure that makes use of a special kind of ditransitive verb, which takes as its second or indirect object, an argument that is a beneficiary of the action described by the verb.

What is the meaning of Benefactive?

(Entry 1 of 2) of a linguistic form. : indicating that someone is benefited —used especially of affixes and verb forms in various American Indian languages.

What is a direct and indirect object?

The direct object is the thing that the subject acts upon, so in that last sentence, “cereal” is the direct object; it's the thing Jake ate. An indirect object is an optional part of a sentence; it's the recipient of an action.