Using Thrown Property benefit on Melee Attacks

There are several melee weapons with the Thrown property.  The Thrown property tells you when those weapons can be drawn: “you can throw the weapon to make a ranged attack, and you can draw that weapon as part of the attack”. It seems that you can freely draw these weapons even when the attack isn’t part of the Attack action, such as the granted Reaction attack from a Battle Master’s Commander’s Strike or a Bonus Action attack from the Light weapon property.  But is the easily drawn aspect of the property dependent on the weapon being used to make a ranged attack or does it still function for melee attacks?  Could you, for instance, draw a dagger as part of an Opportunity Attack?  Opportunity Attacks must be melee attacks, but there’s nothing about them being restricted to a weapon you’re already holding.

I can see someone reading “you can throw the weapon to make a ranged attack” and “you can draw that weapon as part of the attack” as two independent clauses.  But other people might see “the attack” as referring to “a ranged attack”.  Is there a community consensus or a semi-official ruling on this?

Just based on the normal rules of English, one would assume that the second part of that sentence refers to the thing being described in the first part of the sentence, and is not intended to be read as a whole separate thing.

To me you can't  draw a Thrown weapon as part of an attack unless it's a ranged attack with which you throw it.

You otherwise generally draw such weapon as part of the Attack action or with Time-Limited Object Interactions.

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Just based on the normal rules of English, one would assume that the second part of that sentence refers to the thing being described in the first part of the sentence, and is not intended to be read as a whole separate thing.

 If they had written "that attack" or "it", you would certainly be correct.  As it's written I think there's still ambiguity, although switching articles from "a ranged attack" to "the attack" does favor your reading.  If instead the rule had been written as, "If a weapon has the Thrown property, you can throw the weapon to make a ranged attack, and you can draw that weapon as part of an attack" then the common reading would point in the other direction.

I'm not sure how much logical sense it makes for the effort to draw the same weapon to change based on whether you're attacking in melee or ranged, but that's a separate discussion.