21. A management entity comprising: a memory comprising instructions; and a processor in communication with the memory wherein the processor executes the instructions to: parse 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, generate 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, wherein the processor executing the instructions to generate the sets of model elements comprises the processor executing the instructions to: evaluate content of the request to collect the data to produce links between context tokens and the content tokens, and map the links into a model element graph, analyze context metadata tokens and content metadata tokens in accordance with the dependency information, analyze the model element graph in accordance with the dependency information, modify the model element graph for each dependency and dependency type in the dependency information, generate 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, and execute the request to collect the data as requested in accordance with the platform-neutral description; and store the data as collected in the memory.
21. A management entity comprising: a memory comprising instructions; and a processor in communication with the memory wherein the processor executes the instructions to: parse 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, generate 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, wherein the processor executing the instructions to generate the sets of model elements comprises the processor executing the instructions to: evaluate content of the request to collect the data to produce links between context tokens and the content tokens, and map the links into a model element graph, analyze context metadata tokens and content metadata tokens in accordance with the dependency information, analyze the model element graph in accordance with the dependency information, modify the model element graph for each dependency and dependency type in the dependency information, generate 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, and execute the request to collect the data as requested in accordance with the platform-neutral description; and store the data as collected in the memory. 22. The management entity of claim 21 , wherein the processor executes the instructions to process the data as collected to produce processed data, and to display the processed data.