Assertion: mafia | /r/CapableOf | draw its members
Facets:
value: from mafie
type: OTHER
value: from the many small private armies
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: The Mafia owed its origins and drew its members from the many small private armies, or mafie, that were hired by absentee landlords to protect their landed estates from bandits in the lawless conditions that prevailed over much of Sicily through the centuries.