sS directProbabilisticParse(S pattern, S rewritten, S input, O... _) {
  optPar RecursiveProbabilisticParser1 parser = new;
  parser.starsAreWildcards = true;
  ret first(recursiveProbabilisticParse("sentence => " + quote(pattern) + " => " + rewritten, "sentence", input, paramsPlus(_, +parser)));
}