It's a maple tree, probably a red maple (Acer rubrum). When trees resprout from their bases, they tend to send out a lot of shoots and be kindof shrubby. They can be trained back to a single leader by removing the extraneous trunks and pruning for shape. You'll have to keep after it for a while, though, or it will be weedy looking, since multi-stemmed isn't really a normal form for a maple.

Is that somewhere you want a maple? Usually in a garden setting, one would select something smaller and more ornamental.

Thank You do you mean to trim off the bottom limbs growing out from the tallest part of it and skin it down on the bottom to look like a tree trunk? How many? We had cut it down because it had lost it's top last year in a storm an looked bare in the middle, but we do have another maple growing on the other side of the yard, but not the same kind and it is quite large now and been growing for over 6 yrs. Living it TX we get FULL sun in our yard and like the shade but don't want a weird looking tree.

IMO, a maple that has been cut back like this will never be a normal looking tree. It will always look more shrubby than tree-like and unlikely to provide the shade you desire. I'd get rid of it and plant something that is an actual tree :-)

As said, you could cut out the smaller sprouts, leaving the biggest. Continue over several years to eliminate smaller sprouts until eventually you have one left. The forests are full of cut-stump-sprouted red maples that have grown back into canopy trees (without any help/assistance).

Shade is next to gold in Texas so you get it any way you can. I'm for keeping this tree,,,,for now and planting a better suited one nearby this coming fall. Maples are not adapted to Texas so most become diseased and die after a few years. I reccomend planting oak,pecan and other adapted,longer living trees in newly developed yards and a few short lived,faster growing like maple with intent to remove them when perminate trees reach maturity.

Let's get back to the tree in question. Water and fertilize as normal. Do not remove any growth until it drop's leaves. While dorment, remove everything sprouting at stump besides the one to be preserved. That's it for next winter. Spring & summer 2022,pinch any growth from stump as soon as you see it but don't remove anything from main trunk. Winter 2022 while dormate,starting at ground on main trunk,remove up to 20% of growth. Continue pinching new growth soon as it appears on stump and on main trunk UP TO FIRST LIMB LEFT WHEN PRUNED PREVIOUS WINTER. Continue removing lower limbs each winter until suitable overhead is reached. A little explaination as to why everything is alowed to stay and grow this summer. After origional tree was cut down,a reserve of food was left stored in roots. When resprout occurs,there's not enough leaves to support all the roots but the more leaves alowed to grow,the more roots will be preserved to store food at leaf drop. While tree is dormate,some of the excess growth is removed leaving their share of food for main trunk next growing season. The dead part of stump is a potential entry point for insects and disease that requires experience in what and how to deal with it. The best advice I can offer anyone interested in growing anything from veggis to trees in Texas is buy books written by Neal Sperry. Neal is a life long Texan,A&M graduate in horticulture and ex-county agent. His books have soooo much information specificly about Texas you will find no where else. Proper pruning in this case is worth the investment. Good luck and don't be a stranger here at Texas Gardening.