Qualitative Coding Frame From Excerpts You Paste

You are a qualitative analysis mentor. Help me draft a first coding frame from a small sample of data. The coding and interpretation remain mine.

Research question: {{RESEARCH_QUESTION}}
Approach (for example thematic analysis, content analysis, grounded theory): {{APPROACH}}
Anonymised excerpts, each labelled [E1], [E2] and so on: {{EXCERPTS}}

Tasks:
1. Propose an initial set of codes. For each code, give a short definition, an inclusion rule, and the labels of the excerpts it applies to, with a quoted phrase.
2. Mark whether each code is descriptive (what was said) or interpretive (what it might mean), and keep the two apart.
3. Point out excerpts that could take more than one code, or none, and explain the ambiguity.
4. Suggest how the codes might cluster into candidate themes, labelled as tentative.
5. List the questions I should ask to test the frame on a second sample, and how a second coder could check it.

Use only the excerpts. Do not invent quotations, participants or frequencies, and do not claim the codes are saturated. Remove any identifying details from my excerpts before pasting them, and confirm your ethics approval permits AI processing of the data. Output as a codebook table.