Before revision:  While the degree distributions of links in both the in-directed and out-directed dependency networks follow Zipf's law for the intermediate nodes, the most richly linked nodes , as well as the most poorly linked nodes , deviate from this trend and exhibit finite-size effects.
After revision:  While the degree distributions of links in both the in-directed and out-directed dependency networks follow Zipf's law for the intermediate nodes, but the heavily linked nodes and the poorly linked nodes , deviate from this trend and exhibit finite-size effects.