1. A method for management entity operations, the method comprising: parsing, by a management entity, a request to collect data about a communications system for an entity in the communications system, the parsing to produce a parsed request and dependency information related to the request; generating, by the management entity, sets of model elements in accordance with context tokens and content tokens derived from the parsed request, the content tokens including extrinsic metadata and intrinsic metadata of the parsed request, the generating the sets of model elements comprising: evaluating content of the request to collect the data to produce links between the context tokens and the content tokens; and mapping the links into a model element graph; analyzing context metadata tokens and content metadata tokens in accordance with the dependency information; analyzing the model element graph in accordance with the dependency information; modifying the model element graph for each combination of dependency and dependency type in the dependency information; generating, by the management entity, a platform-neutral description of results of the request from the model element graph derived from the sets of model elements, the platform-neutral description being independent of a protocol used by the management entity to collect the data about the communications system; executing, by the management entity, the request to collect the data as requested in accordance with the platform-neutral description; and storing, by the management entity, the data as collected.