There are signs of life all over that tree, but you do need to look close. The backlighting prevents good observation, but those sure look like leaves popping out all over.
One does have to wonder why your tree is so much delayed in emerging, relative to the vigor of the adjacent tree. If it comes out strong enough to look alive, I'd suggest doing some restorative efforts.
Can you get us a better picture of the ground beneath the tree? Something about that looks very wrong, particularly the staining that extends onto the pavement/driveway. What's the history in that area? The edges look like there has been some sort of excavation.
Are you parking the car on the ground beneath? This will cause some very damaging soil compaction.
Generally good for trees that are not thriving:
Drill a bunch of one to two inch diameter holes between all those prominent roots, about one foot deep is adequate. Then fill them back up with a mixture of the soil you took out, adding about 50% compost, cotton burr, peat moss, shredded pine bark or some other organic soil improvement.
Then add a nice shot of fertilizer, mixed in with your hole-filling materials. Limit the total fertilizer applied beneath that tree to just one pound of common yard fertilizer. There is no value to overdoing it! You could get fancy with some prescription tree fertilizer, selected from the recommendations of a soil test that you had analyzed. I'm suggesting the cheapo version.
Then you might also add a couple of inches of topsoil to help cover those exposed roots. You might not be aware that dumping a whole lot of dirt to cover the roots will NOT be good for the tree. Just add a 1' deep layer once per year and it will be ok. Eventually, the roots will be covered, and you will not have suffocated it.
Immediate alternative, that might well be healthier for the tree: cover with 2-3 inches of mulch. This will also help alleviate that soil compaction, and will help eliminate future compaction. That mulch turns into dirt eventually, anyway.
