Drush make and svn:externals
Make files allow you to connect to SVN repositories as sources for install profiles, modules, themes, and libraries. They do not, however, have built-in support for propget or propset.  

Drupal repositories are all git based so I'm afraid SVN support is bulwarked to a bare minimum. See the drush_make documentation for the supported SVN parameters.  

As an aside, take a look at update Drupal using Drush with svn support for some other ways to incorporate Drush + SVN into your workflow.  

NOTE: It sounds like you're using Drush 4.x and the drush_make extension, so my answer is assuming that is true.