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> 地図Bは南北を上下ではなく、左右に置いて、作ったものである。 ([source, line
> 11](https://www.docdroid.net/847v2dg/img-20170413-0001-new.pdf.html))

I understand the sentence as follows:

> Concerning map B, it is the card he made north and south not being top and
> bottom and put it left and right.

My main issue so far is that 上下ではなく has no connector to it like て form. The
fact that 左右に置いて is て form doesn't make things easier. I could imagine that
南北を上下ではなく...作った form one attribute for もの. 左右に置いて could be, well, another
addition, an adverbial phrase maybe, I struggle determining the syntactical
function. "He made north and south not being top and bottom and put it left
and right" I also have problems with the semantics of て form in this context.
simply chaining it kind of still works, but I feel like it should have an
adversative meaning:

> He made north and south not being top and bottom, but put it left and right.

But I haven't learned so far that て form would be allowed to use this meaning.
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地図Bは南北を上下ではなく、左右に置いて、作ったものである
Your instinct is not wrong. ではなく is equivalent to ではなくて . This is a general
rule: the く form of an い adjective (and in this case, as in most cases, ない and
たい forms of verbs are treated as い adjectives) is used (more often in written
than in spoken Japanese) as equivalent to the て form. The pattern A ではなはく[て]、
B , "not A but B", can often be rendered "B rather than A".

The sentence goes like this:

地図 B は Map B

作ったものである is something that [unspecified subject] made

置いて placing

南北を North and South

上下ではなく、左右に not [at] top and bottom [but] to left and right

Since the subject is unspecified, I would use an English passive when
translating. Thus:

Map B has been drawn with North and South to left and right rather than at top
and bottom.

Hint: don't be misled by the punctuation mark 、 . It doesn't always (or even
often, I'd say) mark off a grammatically distinct section of a sentence.
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