Help me with this sentence, please!

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vi4ro  #484325  Mon, 03 Mar 08 08:19 AM
I have posted this question on another forum, but I haven't exactly received a satisfactory answer, so here it is:

"I am all that you have home." (If anyone here is a fan of The Decemberists, then they might recognize this line!)

"I" would be noun phrase one and the subject
"am" would be the predicating verb and stative verb
"all that you have home" would be the subject complement and second noun phrase, where "all" is the quantifying predeterminer, "that" is the demonstrative determiner, "you" is the head-noun, and then... what would "have home" be?

 I am so embarrassed! I am not entirely sure whether or not everything I have above is even correct (so please, be sure to let me know if it isn't!)

  
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Mister Micawber  #484336  Mon, 03 Mar 08 08:44 AM
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I am not a fan of the Decemberists.  Are they a musical group? A political faction?

Does 'all that you have home' mean 'all that you have at home?-- the former is not a phrase with which I am familiar. 

  
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Philip  #484535  Mon, 03 Mar 08 03:44 PM
Welcome to this forum,vi4ro!  I'm sure you will receive satisfactory results here.  Mr. M is just one of our excellent educators.
  
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