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A friend of a friend of a sister brought me this yew last fall. The sister's brother had decided to stop doing bonsai, so would I like this tree? The price was right ($0.00), so I took it. The soil was covered with ground cover and didn't die back until the late freeze last week and I saw the root. The root there is butchered something awful.

Is there anything worth doing with the tree? If not, it will not break my heart. It is basically a free, large pot, and I need a couple of those because I am digging up azaleas right now. I think if I cover it with enough soil to disguise the cut it will be just a stick coming out of the ground. Maybe I can cut a lot of it off, lean it way over, and make a cascade? Or something like that? Take it out of the pot, stick it in the ground, and let it be a real tree?

I just dug up an azalea about 15 years old, and it might go quite nicely in the pot next year.

This is very normal for trees that have been dug up. The die-back is not new. It if in fact, years old from what I cal tell by the picture. The tree should be fine.

Normally you would carve the roots into something realistic looking, instead of chopped.

Any future direction advice is hard enough from pictures, but of course impossible from the picture you shared..

Considering what I was trying to ask, that was just about the worst angle I could have taken.

Try again. The root there was cut way to short and just left on top of the soil. What can be done with the chopped off part? Anything? Let the ground cover cover it back up?

As said, chopped sections are often carved into something realistic looking.
If you burry it, it will rot.

I think the root has a living section too.
Wait untill you repot. Then decide what you can do. The tree probably needs lots of development, so the root may not be the most urgent thing to work on.