A verb involving bodily motion, either intransitive e.g. crawl or transitive, e.g. carry, takes a PP with preposition on and a body-part designating the locus on contact. This is distinct from a regular body-part "instrument" both semantically (because in this construction the body-part does not play an active role) and formally (because the instrumental body-part normally occurs with preposition with).
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