Applescript: Working with text

My script finds blocks of text which are have the character style "CS-Descriptor":
tell application "Adobe InDesign CS5"
set applied character style of find text preferences to "CS-Descriptor"
          tell document 1
                    set myDescription to find text
          end tell
end tell
This returns, e.g.
{text from character 1807 to character 1818 of story id 21888 of document id 19 of application "Adobe InDesign CS5"}
I now need to find more information about the immediate surroundings of this piece of text. Somehow I want to find out something like the paragraph number, or line number, so that I can find the first word of the line.
Can anyone help me get from 'text from character......' to 'paragraph 52 of text flow.... ' or something similar?
So far scripting ID my experience has been that it is much, much easier than I think! Fingers crossed it is again.
Sorry about Applescript - it seems to be dying out!
Emma

Cooroo wrote:
This returns, e.g.
{text from character 1807 to character 1818 of story id 21888 of document id 19 of application "Adobe InDesign CS5"}
I now need to find more information about the immediate surroundings of this piece of text. Somehow I want to find out something like the paragraph number, or line number, so that I can find the first word of the line.
You can just ask for :
word 1 of paragraph 1 of myDescription
Getting the paragraph number is a bit trickier:
count of paragraphs of text from character 1 of parent story of myDescription to character 1 of myDescription
Sorry about Applescript - it seems to be dying out!
Nothing to apologise for -- reports of its death have been greatly exaggerated.

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